Christmas Day

Ac loves the movie "Tangled".  and by loves I means she has probably watched it over a dozen times and she sings all the songs and its a good thing that Santa brought her Crash Cart with scissors on it to open her Tangled Barbie!  

AM got a huge Doll House and a baby Belle with tea set!  She loved it!!

C got a HUGE air hockey table.  This is what happens when Santa is entitled to bring his favorite son a present...

I got Papa a sweet Knuckle Sandwich Knife by Guy Fieri.  I thought he would think it was super cool...he is hard to impress.

My AM with her new hat, gloves, and boots.  She is such an angel:)

C playing with his bubbles in his new boots...

 and AC

Throwing sticks off the dock...a time honored tradition.

Christmas Eve

Our tradition has been to go to the Kwist church for Christmas Eve service and then we go over to their house for dinner.  Here is the traditional kids picture around the tree.  AC was not in a good mood:(  AM however was woking it!!

We both had on boots, tights, and a dress...we are so hip!

The grand kids and Papa...Again..AC was not in a good place.

Two of my favorite people.

 Getting ready for the group picture.

I should really learn how to edit these things, but it is pretty good despite the family patriarch not looking at the camera!!

Ehh... Not bad

Babysitting the cousins

That's a joke because it was more like "getting to hang out with the cousins"  while their mom and dad still had to work on Wed and Thursday...boo! 

We managed to have some fun without them.  Here the boys are in a rousing game of trouble.  I believe it took 3 or 4 session of reconvening before the game was finally finished.

We also made some cookies.  The kids were impressive with their cookie cutting skills.

The proverbial "kids" table for meals.  They insisted on all sitting together.  Isn't that sweet?

 Iced the cookies...

 

Watched some DORA!!

 Wrestled with Uncle B...

 Aunt Turah introduced everyone to cake pops from Starbucks:)

And we had a great time at the Play Nation:)

 This was Occupy the house.  Many kids were chased in order for these kids to gain entrance:)

Chapel and B's party

At AM and AC's school they have chapel every week and on the last week of the Fall semester, family is allowed to come and watch.  It is soo cute.  AC was on my lap and AM sat on Granny's lap.  

AC was so cute.  She cried when I left her...she really loves me!!  Or it turned out she was getting sick. She took a nap at school which she hadn't done all year and woke up with a fever.

Thursday some of the people B worked with had a little celebration for him.  He got a bit of a promotion at another school in the district.  All the secretaries got together and made him a bunch of sack lunches...because he always eats the lunches that parents bring up to their kids when they forget their lunch...

I was pretty impressive how many sack lunch we have now.  Very thoughtful!!

AM's Dance Recital

Last Saturday was AM's dance recital.  I couldn't take enough pictures of her:)

 You know dancers get beautiful flowers at their performance:)

Thanksgiving 2011

First, I wanted to share this ridiculous picture of a fraction of all the arts and crafts the kids bring home. Poor AM and AC, it was moderately cute when C brought them home, but now that we have 3...Man alive!

This year we spent Thanksgiving at B's parents.   On Wednesday, we had everyone over for some fondue:)  Cheese fondue and chocolate fondue for dessert.

On Thanksgiving morning, I slept in and we hung out at the house for a bit.  I got to go on a jog, B and C played some SORRY...

AM did some baking...She made Gramma's meat stuffing.  People around here get kinda touchy if you call it stuffing, so we call it meat dressing.  I am 100% on the difference any ways.

Here are the girls playing at Granny and Pops'.

 A rousing game of trouble was played.  C won...no cheating.  That kid can roll 6's like nobody's business.

Here is Thanksgiving meal... Granny cooked up and amazing feast as usual:)

Tough loss for the Ags that night...

Thanksgiving Feasts at school

B and Granny were able to go to the kids' Feasts at school.  AM has a tie dyed Indian shirt on:)  She also made a drum, necklace and head dress.  She had a great time:)

 CMJ made a shirt into a vest:)  His Indian name was on the back.  It is "Flying Squirrel".  So fitting...right?

AM had one of her teammates over after their last soccer game and they drove around the backyard chasing C yelling, "Owh Owh Owh Owh Owh!"  I didn't know if that was politically correct, but they saw it on Tom and Jerry.