One last thing from the Thanksgiving holiday. I made 16 pockets with different categories of things to be thankful for and we filled out slips of paper to fill them. Then we played a guessing game of who wrote what.
Sneaky little Emma learning to climb up the stairs.
Neil and Isaac were so excited to make their Christmas trees for our Christmas store. Now we will fill them with ornaments on which we write kind things that we do for others and then use the ornaments for our “money” to buy things from the Christmas store for all the people in our family.
Emma loves to walk around the house with something sticking out of her mouth – kind of a dangerous habit.
Rachel joined us at Mark’s band concert. He had a solo in the song Santa Baby that the Jazz Band played.
Neil drew some fancy flowers for us.
A Pinterest find that actually worked. You cut shapes out of craft foam and get them wet and they will stick to the shower walls or a window. We also discovered that they stick to people. We made some ice cream cone, cupcake and snowmen parts.
I love watching little kids look through books. That just makes me feel happy.
We made a cold trip up to Thanksgiving Point to watch an ice sculpture event. As usual it took us longer to get out of here than we thought so we only got there for the end but it was still amazing.
The kids enjoyed looking at the reindeer and reading all the facts and then we went for a short walk to look at the lights.
For school Abbie was in the wax museum as Brigham Young. She did a bunch of research on him and memorize a short oral report. Getting a cool looking beard was the hardest part but ours didn't turn out too bad.
Isaac loves to be like dad.
Our budding musician.
Neil always surprises me with how much he knows. We went out to run errands and he found a piece of chalk in the driveway, while I was buckling the little kids in the van he drew math problems in the driveway 1 + 5=4 and 1 + 1 equals 2, and then dad’s name so we took a picture and texted it to him.
As I came downstairs with a load of laundry Neil was loading up our Advent Calendar. He turned around and told me, “Look mom, now today is Christmas!”
Mark helped out with the Scouting For Food drive; which was a success.
Ken’s friend Mike hosted a Christmas Hello Kitty party at our house. It was more pink than I've ever seen in one room at one time. It was fun to get together with some of Ken’s old friends from high school.
Scripture reading time at our house.
Emma loves to play peek-a-boo.
The Sunday before Christmas we went to Ken's parents house for a sing-along. Each of the kids played a Christmas song for us. And of course we had treats too.
The poster for this school project got put off until the morning it was due. We really try not to do that very often but it turned out okay and we learned a lot of interesting things about Wayne County.
Abbie and Spencer after their chime choir christmas concert.
Little Emma practicing walking while we fold laundry in the front room.
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