An angel in the choir

My angel, that is. Grant's second year in the preschool angel choir. Next year... Kindergarten!

The Christmas program

For the last two years since Evan began the preschool program, he has participated in the yearly Christmas program. But up until this year, he has only participated in the singing portion of the program. This year, however, he was in kindergarten, which meant that he got to take part in the Christmas story play. His role..... wait for it.... wait for it..... Puppeteer #3! I know, I know. We were just thrilled. He remembered all of his lines and performed like the natural born star that he is.

Grant, now that he is in 3-year-old preschool, also took part in the program as part of the choir. This is what Grant looked like:

We were so proud.

The things we do to our children

In the name of holidays... Homemade reindeer shirts, hats, candy striped leggings. You know, just another day around our house during the month of December!

Christmas cookies - 2011

Our annual, very messy, very sugary tradition!

Family holiday shots

Angel on the tree - 2011

What you don't see is the CHAIR that Jason is standing on so Evan can reach the top. Precarious? To say the least. But really, we're creating memories here.

Christmas 2010 round-up

The holidays must have swallowed me alive, but rest assured, I'm here are ready to tackle the new year! Or something like that. To catch you up, a few photos from Christmas happenings. In short, we had a wonderful Christmas and were treated to fun visits from grandparents (which helped the 2.5 week break SO much more enjoyable).

Christmas program... see my little angel?

Fun with packing peanuts. Thank you FedEx.

Enjoying gifts from Grandma Soon & Papa.

Cuteness only lasts so long... see below.

Christmas morning-- enjoying the loudest Buzz Lightyear toys ever.

Don't Spill the Beans. Also a bad gift idea. Santa: We need to talk.

Visiting with Papa T and Grandma T.

Milking a plastic cow at the Children's Museum.

Christmas cookies '10

Today we baked and decorated more than 12 dozen cookies. I ate 2 cookies. The kids ate between 4-5 cookies, 5ish Hershey's kisses, several hundred sprinkles and an undetermined amount of red, green and white icing. I'd love to say that we had a Norman Rockwell-ish Christmas Sunday with Jingle Bells playing in the background, a crackling fire and a mug of hot cocoa in every hand. In reality, it turned into a hectic, exhausting and whiiiiiiny, looooooong day. Don't know if it was the sugar, the lack of naps or just one of those really tough days that we seem to cross every couple of weeks. Either way, I'm glad that we did our annual cookie decorating tradition -- and glad that it's over. 'Til next year!  

Santa & whatnot



Decorating miniature gingerbread houses. Though the pictures are cute, it's not something I'll rush to do again soon.





Waiting with canned food donations for Santa on the fire truck.



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