Advent 2010, day 21

Day 21: Pick out sibling gifts and cousin gifts!

Advent 2010, day 19

Day 19: Drive to Grammy's house for Christmas vacation.

Advent 2010, day 18

Day 18: Sibling Bubble Bath (the kids will LOVE this picture when they get older, right?)

Student(s) of the Month!!!

Briley and Avalyn both got Student of the Month for December! We are soooo proud of them.  After school we went to Dairy Queen and the girls each got a Dilly Bar for all their hard work.

Advent 2010, day 14

Day 14: Movie Night at Mt. Charleston Elementary, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Advent 2010, day13

Day 13: Breakfast for dinner. (I know...the kids are in their jammies...so it's kinda confusing, but this really is dinner-time!)

Advent 2010, day 12

Day 12: Christmas Light Drive (this is our house all lit up after the drive)

Advent 2010, day 11

Day 11: Picture with Santa.

Christmas stocking holder

Check out my new stocking holder!  I totally made it!  It was part of an enrichment activity a couple months ago and I finally finished it just in time for Christmas.  I love it!!!

Advent 2010, day 10

Day 10: Hot Chocolate and Ice cream!!!

Advent 2010, day 9

Day 9: Attend Avalyn's Winter Choir Concert.

Advent 2010, day 8

Day 8: Attend Briley's Winter Choir Concert.

Advent 2010, day 7

Day 7: Make it snow in the living room. (then rock out in the snow!)

Advent 2010, day 6

Day 6: "Christ"mas FHE (lesson found here)

Advent 2010, day 5

Day 5: Christmas coloring pages

Advent 2010, day 4

Day 4: Make ornaments for ornament exchange.

Preschool helper, week 1

It's my month to help out during preschool.  I love being there to see how Shallon's doing.  I am very happy to see that she is keeping up nicely with this older group of preschoolers.  Today Miss Edwina had a cute hand-print Rudolph craft for the kids to do. And Shallon cut out her own hand-prints, all by herself, with scissors, she's only 3 years-old!!!  As you can see we did have to reinforce one of her pinkies, after it was almost cut off, but we were able to save it!  I also had to throw in a picture of my little helper, Tason.  He is just loving being able to go to preschool with me and Shallon. Lots of paper to scribble on, kids to play with (whether they want to play or not) and lots of mini-corndogs to shove in his mouth! 

Advent 2010, day 2

Day 2: Decorate the tree.

Advent 2010, day 1

Day 1: AAAHHHHHH, December is here already?!  Set up the advent calender.  Read a Christmas story every night.

Thanksgiving

We had Thanksgiving at home this year, all by ourselves. It was great!  We stayed in our jammies half the day.  The kids did get up nice and early, but entertained themselves by making a fort in the living room, while mom and dad got to sleep in a little. Greg did have to drag himself out of bed for a little Turkey Bowl! 
We decided to have ham for dinner, since we are having turkey for Christmas, and it was pretty good. The kids were awesome helpers all day; with cooking and setting the table, entertaining themselves and each other, and just being cute!  It was a great day, we might just do it again next year!