Today is baking day with the Grands.
Baking with Baba when they still needed a chair to stand on to reach the counters.
2022
2023
Baking day last year! They are taller this year and the mixing and rolling will be simpler for these two! Here’s hoping we remember to take a couple photos this morning!
Back to the present…
We woke up to an inch of snow on Monday but that has been washed away by rain. Between the rain and the snow we’ve had beautiful skies as you can see in the collage above from our Colville kids’ driveway.
Our Westside kids attended a early Christmas Eve service at Canyon Hills. Canyon Hills scheduled several Christmas Eve services this year and last night was their first of 8 services stretched out over 3 days!
We will be attending our Candlelight Christmas Eve Service at First Baptist Colville on Christmas Eve at 5pm.
I’m feeling a wee bit nostalgic looking at some photos from Christmas past…
I posted this one on Facebook yesterday.
Me, my sister Kathy and my sister Vera in Montebello, California 1967.
All eight of the Bagdanov siblings.
Our mom and pop.
Christmas Day growing up we had church on Christmas day regardless of the day it landed on. In the photos above taken on Christmas morning we were all dressed and ready to drive to Los Angeles for our Christmas services. We’d come home for lunch and then back to church in the evening. This might have been the last year we split our Christmas day at the Molokan church in the morning and the Russian Baptist Church in the evening.
I’ll save more nostalgia for another day.
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
Ahhh, making memories and old memories! Thanks for sharing! Merry Christmas!
Hello, Ellen,
Cute photos of your baking with the grandkids.
All the family photos and memories are lovely.
Merry Christmas! Have a great day!
…Ellen, you are a wonderful teacher for your two little cuties. They will be able to continue the traditions. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Ellen, I enjoyed this so much. Generation after generation of sharing God’s goodness and love. Wishing you a wonderful Christmas with your family
Sweet memories!!
I love sharing past memories with friends. We need these times of reflection in order to appreciate not only our past but our present as well. Thanks for letting us meet your family.
Just lovely! ~ Rosie
I’m so pleased you cherish the memories, for they are the true grifts!
Absolutely love the photos of you baking with the kids. So precious. So you got snow and then rain. Sweet photos. We have rain coming in the next few days. The photos you shared are priceless. I really enjoyed seeing them.
Old memories and now making new ones. We also went to church Christmas morning!!
Wishing you all a Happy and Blessed Christmas.
You have been given a “goodly heritage” as they say!!! I treasure the nostalgia of Christmas more and more each year! Wishing you and yours a wonderfilled Christmas and Happiest New Year my dear friend.
How lovely to have great helpers in the kitchen. Wishing you a very happy Christmas. B x
Baking together with your grandchildren is a real treat, and a lovely way to make memories. They grow so quickly.
Memories surge at this time of year. Merry Christmas, Ellen.