Advent Calendars

My son Tyson was thrilled when I showed him his advent calendar this year! We've discovered the very cool LEGO Advent Calendar! This is the first year he's been interested in Lego. Every day you get a new little lego toy. A snowman. a Piano. a figure. a skateboard & ramp. very cool! Anyways, we spent 2 dayas at Apex mountain resort this past weekend (which for us is Sunday/monday) Tyson was so upset we forgot the calendare at home! Every morning he gets so excited. "Mom today is December six!!" lol Ya so this was not good.. bad mommy for leaving it behind!! I had hoped that the Tobogganing and hot chocolate would help him to forget... but nothing did ! haha. Once we got home though he was thrilled to get to open TWO doors at once! ha. SEE... I knew what i was doing! ;)

Oh another note. I was blessed to photograph a cute little family while I was up at Apex! These two little men as super adorable!! Enjoy a few little teasers! I hope you all are enjoying you holiday season! Remember that every comment I will donate a canned food item to the Salvation Army!! More info on *Cans for Comments* click HERE.

25 Days of Christmas.

Hello All.
I am excited to be blogging more often! I vowed to myself this year that I would *TRY* to blog more so that you could get to know me on a more personal base. I am honestly no good at writing(or spelling! I'm sure you've noticed!). I find myself struggling to make these long enough, so I've decided that I will be a short blogger :D I am also hoping that more of you will keep stopping back and leaving feed back, encourage me along the way!

So for the month of December I've decided our family will be doing "The 25 days of christmas" The whole idea for me is to find ways to bless others around us where it's those who are in great need or those in our neighborhood or church or school or work. Where ever! Also I want to find things to do that are special with my boys. (Tyson will be 5 in January & Lucas is 1.5 years old) I am so busy the rest of the year that I want to make them a priority this month! This means working less. ;) (Sorry all, I will be back in the swing of things for January. I felt this was super important to do for the family.)

SO here are a few ideas I have!

• 1. Make a christmas card for a special family member.
• 2. visit the Live Nativity at in Kelowna.
• 3. make paper snowflakes
• 4. Bake a pie for someone in our church.
• 5. Deliver flowers to an unsuspecting person.
• 6. Make Apple Cider for the postman.
• 7. Go for a family walk in the snow and then make snow angels.
• 8. Go skating at Apex mountain and have Hot Cocoa!

But I would SOOOO love for you to give me other ideas! Do you know any great needs in Penticton area? Do you have any ideas for me!?

Leave me a little note! Remember that all comments go towards 'Cans for Comments'. I am going to donate 1 canned food for every comment! If you are new to this check out my post from yesterday HERE.

Ignore the quality of photos i know they aren't super but I try to just be a mom and not always a photographer!
Here are a few posts from the last two days.
*Making Cookies for our neighbors.
*Going up the mountain and tobogganing (hot chocolate too!) Notice our cute Reindeer :P


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Cans For Comments :: 2010

This is my first year doing this but I am SOOOOooOOOooo Excited!! Cans for Comments has come to Jodie Lemke Photography's blog! I'm Thrilled to be doing this, and you’ll love being a part of it. Let me fill you in on the details below:

Cans for Comments is a canned food drive where you and I get to partner together to donate canned goods to The Salvation Army, Penticton's local food bank. The success of the drive relies on two things:

1. I will post fun blog posts for you to read
2. You leave comments on any and all blog posts

For every comment on my blog within the given time frame, I’ll donate one canned food item directly to the Salvation Army. All you have to do is comment. It’s super easy and really fun, and in the process, I hope to get to know who you are, which is awesome for me! Comment as many times as you like. Tell me about yourself, tell me what photos speaks to you, tell me how much you love sushi, ok maybe that's just me ;)… or anything else you wanna share!

Here's my GOAL ------> 100 Cans! WE -CAN-DO-IT!!

The cans for comments drive starts TODAY (Wednesday, December 1st) and goes through December 17th. I will be posting a photo of ALL the canned goods I donate!

AS A BONUS :: I will be Giving away a FREE Christmas GIFT BASKET (details to come). All who comment will be entered in the DRAW!

Here's a few of my favs right now! So can't wait to use that Cranberry sauce! Yummy! What is your favorite canned good?

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