Christmas Wreath-What would you do???

Okay, I need you creative guru's. While decorating our home for Christmas we ran into a unique problem. We usually have a beautiful picture hanging above our fireplace in the family room. It is of a lovely outdoor tea party with the saying,
"May God bless our lives with a fragrant measure of His love and our home with the treasure of His peace" and the scripture " In the presence of the Lord there is fullness of joy. Ps 16:11
It is really a very relaxing site to gaze upon. During the Christmas season we have a huge wreath that hangs above the mantle. It is really very pretty. However, when we remove the picture and hang up the wreath we get this:



The picture usually hides the projector my dh has put in the wall. However, the wreath does not. Any suggestions on what I can do to "dress-up" this problem?
Does anyone else have such a tech-savvy dh and all the blessings that come with that? *smile*

Christmas Decorating

Well, we got our Christmas Tree up!

The house is decorated and we enjoyed Christmas Music, dancing around, putting up ornaments, hot chocolate, eggnog and s'mores.


The fire was blazing and keeping the house nice and toasty warm.

(Well, it was blazing and toasty the other night! LOL)
It was a wonderful evening. Unfortunately, I was still a little under the weather so I did not get the camera out. I will try to take pictures of the tree later and upload them. But for now, we are enjoying the twinkling lights, more Christmas music and a game of Nertz!

Cold Weather Brings Hot Soups

As the cold weather comes in I like to cook nice hot soups, chili's etc. I have the standard chili, chicken and dumplings etc. but I was really wanting to try something new. Thanks to my friend DeEtta I have a new soup to add to my recipes: Minestrone!

It was really good and my whole family gave it a thumbs up. I am looking for more soups and stews so if you have any favorites I would love to try them! Thanks DeEtta!

Happy Thanksgiving

I know it has been a long time since I last posted. I am hoping to remedy that situation as I am getting more and more organized and trying to eliminate things from my schedule. I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. I am not with my side of the family this year but I do get to share this thanksgiving with my husband's family. We are sure to be stuffed with wonderful foods and great deserts. We will most certainly play charades and be entertained by a wonderful skit put on by the kids. It is always something new and creative. Can't wait to see what they come up with this year.
As I woke up this morning the house was cold with a new cold front that blew in yesterday. We went from 80 degree weather to the 40's. I was so thankful for this wonderful fall weather. We put up a thankful tree on Monday (this was supposed to happen on Nov. 1 but illness kept us from getting it up). By Tues. morning it was full and continues to fill up. The children add to it daily. We are truly blessed. I did want to put a thankful list up today and I hope to think of one everyday. So, what are you thankful for. Here is my list of 10 things...
1)Jesus Christ and the sacrifice He made that I may be reconciled with God in Heaven.
2)My husband. God knew exactly what I would need and blessed me with all of that and more in
Phillip
3)My four wonderful children. The Lord allows me to see His diversity in their unique personalites and brings me joy daily through them.
4)The church body at NEC. The impact they have on my walk with Christ brings glory to God daily.
5)My husband's job and the provision God gives us though it.
6)A huge home with rooms to fill with whoever needs them.
7)That my house if full right now with the added blessings of 2 of my neices (1 biological, 1 adopted)
8)My homeschool loopies buddies. These woman have walked with my for many years now and have prayed for me, blessed me, made me laugh and taught me more than a few things.
9)My dearest friends here who keep me accountable, love me, are patient with me and keep me focused on the Lord
10)My extended family, Mom, Dad, Grandmommy, Pawpaw and all the children they raised that now are my family in-love and in-law.

God is Good. All the Time!