Joy to the World

Last night for Family Home Evening we watched this DVD. I thought it was the perfect way to kick off the Christmas season. We talked about the true meaning of Christmas and made a family goal to be more focused on Christ this year. It's a great DVD and really set the tone for our holidays.

It's Beginning to Look Alot Like Christmas...

I'm trashed. We got all of our Christmas decorations up today, even the outside lights. But, now we get to enjoy them all season long. I love Christmas!!

Thanksgiving Day Fun

What do you do after Thanksgiving, when your parents are too stuffed to care???

You get your dad's big, thick yellow rope, and tie your smallest sibling to the end of it.Then you see if you can hoist her over the banister! All the while, denting the banister, and cutting the circulation off in your sister's legs!.And if you're in the running for Mother of the year like I am, you take pictures for your blog before you help her down, and then get mad!

Hula Hoop Quest

After school today Whitley and a friend were playing with her hula hoop. Somehow it got stuck up in the top of our tree. At first Colton and Whitley were throwing a soccer ball at it to try to knock it out. That attracted a couple of neighborhood kids.

Then Colton got out this huge rope and tied a caribiner to the end of it. He was trying to lasso it out of the tree!

That attracted a few more kids and suddenly this was a neighborhood quest.
Finally a little boy that I had never seen brought down this huge extender pole that his dad used to clean the windows to try, and they finally got it down. Kids are funny.

Thanksgiving Feast and Body Bags

The first grade had their annual Thanksgiving Feast this morning. They had rolls, fruit, muffins, popcorn, cookies, juice boxes and beef jerky! Quite the collection of food.

Kennedy , Talin, Maggie, Cassandra, Mrs. McGuire, McKenzie (all of Kennedy's best friends)

The kids made their costumes out of paper! (Kennedy and Talin)

She loved this bonnet!

During her feast, Whitley's class was doing their performances on magnets. This is Whitley in the green "body bag". They could choose between the body bags or mime masks and gloves. They really tie drama into everything here.

After they did their performance, Whitley went to the microphone to explain what they were showing about magnets. She did a great job.

This is Whitley's teacher Mr. "A" (Anderson). He is classic Northwest. He's lived her all is life, and really loves it here. He's a great teacher.

Christmas picture time

This morning when we got up, the sun was shining and it was beautiful. Kennedys face had healed for the most part, so we hurried to get a picture for Christmas before the rain came back. These are a couple of the reject pictures. I keep thinking that this will get easier as they get older, but out of about 50 shots, we only had 1 or 2 that were decent of all 3 of them.

They started doing their own goofy poses, and trying to knock each other over. That's when I knew they'd had enough!

Twilight

I went with a bunch of girls friend last night to see twilight. I enjoyed the movie because I enjoy the story. Edward just didn't do anything for me. However, I had tons of fun with my friends and the light dinner at Cheesecake factory at 11pm was great. Thanks for a great time girls!