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Okay, Christmas is over, the tree will most likely be taken down today, and half of the presents have been forgotten about.  Sometimes the worse part of the year is that time right after Christmas.   We spend roughly a month gearing up for Christmas and then it is gone in a blink and it leaves that depressed lost feeling. 

I am glad though even through those feelings, we as Christians can still find happiness and rejoice in the continual gift the Lord gave us through Jesus Christ.  Isn't that the real meaning of Christmas anyway?   Praise God, He loves us more than we could ever fathom.

On another note, here at the Silva house, we are preparing for a sledding trip today.  Isaiah, Elisha and I are going with the church to a place where there is LOTS of snow.  The children are very excited.  This year Jessie and I decided that the children would have to pay half of the way, which boils down to 7 dollars.  Gabriel decided that he did not want to spend his money on one day of fun, but wanted to save it so he could by a game that would give him multiple days of fun.  I am proud that he thought that all the way through, but I do wish he would come with us.

Momma, is staying home because it is bad for her to go sledding while pregnant, so Gabriel will stay home with her, and the other girls. (Hosanna, and Elizabeth)  I hope they have a good time.  I think they will watch movies and sort of just relax.  There is a part of me that thinks they may be getting the better of the deal.  LOL

Well I have to get going so we are not late for the trip.  Talk to you all later.

MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

The Silva's want to wish all our friends and family a Merry Christmas.

The Lord has blessed us a lot this year.  He has provided a house for us, a big 11 passenger van, good health and more than I can type in this blog, or even remember at the moment. 

It is 9:07am and we have opened stockings, and eaten breakfast.  We had french toast, bacon, eggs, and orange juice.  Isaiah did the bacon and Hosanna and I did the french toast.  The day is still full of activity.  We still have to read the story of Jesus' birth, open presents, decorate the birthday cake to Jesus, and do dinner.

Hosanna has seemed very taken with all the presents.  I am a little worried because she is sort of being a bear.  She keeps wanting the other kids presents, and whining to open more presents.  We are trying hard to place Jesus at the center of the day, like it should be, but Hosanna is having a hard time looking past the "me" part of Christmas.  Fortunetely sh is only three, so there is lots of time for her to learn.  The other children are doing GREAT.

Well that is it for now.  Merry Christmas !

MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

The presents are under the tree, the tree is lit, and the kids are excited about Christmas.  I think Hosanna is the most excited, and mostly because of the presents.  We are trying to make Jesus the focus of Christmas, but she is a little too young to get past the presents. 

Today the boys and I took a couple hours to play Age of Empires II together.  It is fun to play video games with kids.  Momma got to watch a movie while the boys and I played.  The girls were watching another movie.  Tonight the Children and I will be watching the last Lord of the Rings movie.  "The Return of the King"  The older kids and I had a blast on Friday night watching the Two Towers.  They enjoy watching movies, and staying up real late, which they don't get to do very often.

Tomorrow will be a work day for the family.  We have lots of stuff to do around the house, and together we can get a LOT accomplished very quickly.  After cleaning we will play some family games together and relax.

Then the BIG day.... Christmas !!

Well from all of us Merry Christmas !

MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

... until Christmas!!

Okay I am somewhat happy with the blog look.  I was going to set Jessie up with a blog, but she couldn't think of a name for her blog, so I am waiting for her.  I did make her a page though. 

The next step is the Family Album.  I think I am going to use a module from ManDeeps.  It will cost me 50 dollars, but will be well worth it and I won't have to develop anything.  It will include a real neat click to enlarge feature.  I hope it will work with all of our readers browsers and computers.

Well that is it I think.  I will post more later.  Also check Dad's Page before Christmas because I will have a rant there, and post my favorite holiday picture.

God Bless,

MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

I finished the home page tonight.  I decided to use the same format as I did on the original Silva~Moose website, with the pictures of the kids on each side of the main rant section.  I updated the pictures though and had some fun with PhotoShop.

I hope you all like it.  If there are any comments please feel free to send them to dad@silvamoose.com.

I will be doing Jessie's blog next and working on how I want to set up the Silva~Moose Family Album.  I have gotten a lot of good input from our friends and family about the photos, and I will try my hardest to find a solution that will make you all happy.

Thanks for stopping by to check out the site.  Also remember that you can add the RSS for this page to your newsreaders and get updates insantly as I post rants.

MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

I finished the basic site design.  I had a lot of input from my wife and she is happy with the outcome.  At least that is what she is telling me.

The next step is getting Jessie's blog page up so she can start "Ranting", or "Blogging".  I hope she likes it and I hope that people will visit her blogs regularly.

The third step is figuring out a good way to post pictures.  I want to have an easy method that Jessie can do if she wants to add pictures to a month's album.

Okay I guess that is it for now.

MikeMoose (Dad)

Okay all, I now have some what of a framework for the design of the site.  It still needs a LOT of work, but it is coming.  I still want to figure out the colors, and menu's.

I am not extremely happy with where it is now, but I am working on it still.

I also now have a weird menu issue.  LOL, more to work out.

MikeMoose (Dad)

Okay, I spent the rest of my Sunday messing around with HTML/CSS design to make sure I troublshot some issues with using global CSS entries.  They work like a charm, but don't validate when run through a CSS validator like http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ .

I spent some time to figure out a way to accomplish the global settings and at the same time validate properly.  Now that that is out of the way I will begin working on the design of our site.  Thanks for your patience. 

This week is busy just because the whole family needs to practice for our church Christmas pagent.  We also have a bunch of Christmas and other type engagements this week, so I won't be able to work much on SilvaMoose design.

Well, I will rant more later. 

MikeMoose (dad)
Mike Silva

Jessie has wanted me to do a new banner for a while.  (along with a whole new website look and feel)

Well I got the banner done tonight, and I hope she likes it in the morning when she wakes up.

~ MikeMoose ~

Well as you can see we moved again.  I am doing a lot of DotNetNuke CMS work for other people and have decided to bring SilvaMoose.com over as well.  This way I get more training in DotNetNuke and ASP.NET web programming.

Thank you all for sticking it out with us.  I apologies for the inconvenience.  Hopefully soon, I will have the site up and running and looking good.

~ MikeMoose ~