Friday, December 31, 2010

Dixie Stampede

While everyone was in town, Grandma and Gramps treated us all to the Dixie Stampede.  The last time we had been was several years ago when Noah was about 2.  Samuel and Jack had never been and neither had Aunt Lydia.  We all enjoyed ourselves and had fun cheering for the North Pole!

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Jack, Noah, and Samuel before the show.  Don’t they look excited?12272010 (8)

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Sledding Fun

On Sunday, we had planned to all go to church, however we woke up to several inches of snow and church was cancelled.  So…we decided to try out the sleds that Grandma and Gramps had given Noah and Jack for Christmas.  Everyone ended up going outside and taking a turn except for Aunt Kristin.  She was a party pooper and stayed inside on baby duty.

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Uncle Jon trying out the sled12262010 (21)

Aunt Lydia takes a turn12262010 (31)

Samuel and Noah were having tons of fun12262010 (60)

Aunt Jennifer was a daredevil and went down on her belly12262010 (71)

Daddy and Samuel heading down the hill.  It looks like Uncle Steven is about to snowboard or ski down the hill, but he’s actually in the process of falling on his rear end!12262010 (96)

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Aunt Kristin couldn’t be persuaded to go outside.  She said she prefers to be warmIMG_0967

Holiday Happenings

This Christmas was the first time in at least 4 years that my whole family was able to get together at the same time!  With 4 kids in our family, 2 in the military, all of us now married and working around in-law schedules as well as our own it just doesn’t usually work out for us to all get together at the same time.  We had a blast!  The fun started the Monday before Christmas when Grandma and Gramps arrived.  Then Uncle Steven, Aunt Lydia, and baby Lyla got there on Wednesday.  Samuel was so excited to meet his new cousin and he fell in love with her!  Aunt Jennifer, Uncle Scott, Noah, Jack, Uncle Jon, and Aunt Kristin all arrived around dinner time on Christmas Day and the party really got going!

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Lyla and her mommyIMGP0719

Samuel showing off his new Phineas and Ferb pajamas before bed on Christmas Eve12242010 (9)

Samuel opened his gifts from us on Christmas morning…12252010 (4)

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He had been begging for a nerf gun and was so excited when he got this one, later we would find out that this seemed to be the theme of the week…12252010 (13)

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Aunt Lydia, Daddy, Grandma, and Samuel putting together his new Harry Potter lego set…12252010 (29)

Samuel had to fight Uncle Steven for his nerf gun…12252010 (31)

After dinner on Christmas, we let the kids open their gifts and then while they played we did a white elephant exchange for the adults.

Samuel loved the Star Wars potato heads that Uncle Jon and Aunt Kristin got him…12252010 (55)

Oh look, all the boys got nerf guns from Uncle Jon…later they each got another one from Uncle Steven.  This resulted in all of the adult guys having a huge nerf gun fight while the kids begged to be allowed to play with their Christmas presents.  Hmmm…IMG_0943

Uncle Jon and Aunt Kristin were excited about the sportsbrella they ended up with in the gift exchange.  Good thing they live near the beach and will get plenty of use out of it.PC252789

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Christmas Musical

The Christmas program for Children’s Choir was Sunday morning.  Samuel was a camel.  They sang about 5 or 6 songs during the morning service.  Samuel did a great job!

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And, since I never got around to getting Christmas cards done…

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

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Saturday, December 11, 2010

Kindergarten–Week 18

This week we finished up Unit 15 – The People Praise Jesus and now we are officially on break till after the new year.  We were going to go one more week before breaking, but we have too many other things coming up and decided that this was a good place to stop for now.

This week we…

Read about Jesus healing the blind man, Zaccheus, Jesus riding into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, and Jesus clearing the temple…

Finished all the practice lessons in A Reason for Handwriting A.  When we come back after Christmas, he will start on the “real” lessons and will be writing a bible verse each week…

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Memorized Mark 11:9…

(You will have to scroll to the bottom of the page and stop the music before watching)

Continued making progress on Explode the Code.  He loves doing his workbook pages each day!

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Continued working on subtraction for math…

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Finished reading The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse.  At first we were worried that Danny Meadow Mouse would be caught by the hawk, but luckily he escaped into a can.  Unfortunately Reddy Fox knew he was in there and we were worried that he might have actually been caught, but Danny Meadow Mouse was able to outsmart him and the book ended on a happy note…

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Got to experience a little of what it would be like to be blind by trying to get to different locations in the house with his eyes closed.  He also did a couple of drawings with his eyes closed and did pretty well…

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Painted a tree in art to show how Zaccheus had climbed in a tree to see Jesus…

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Talked about old & new things and how we should take care of the things God gives us especially His house and His word and experimented in science by cleaning a penny and making it look new again…

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