Christmas Time

Just popping in to share a few photos of some of the fun things that we have done during the last month.

We made some cute donut hole snowmen.  I love Drake's face here.  I'm not quite sure what he was thinking.

We have a tradition where we make a new ornament every year, so this year we made these cute washer snowmen.  I love how they turned out.

We did a lot of other fun things too, but I didn't get any pictures.  I needed to be in the moment, more than I needed pictures I guess.

I did get this cute picture of Tad as one of the Candlelight Carolers at the Elementary school Christmas program.  He was one of the kids selected to do the opening number, and he did a great job!

Here he is with his cute cousin singing with his first grade class.  They did such a good job with this song as well.

And this is a picture of Drake singing with the third grade.   He was also selected to be one of the carolers that sang songs between all the numbers as the kids were getting off and on stage.  He was very happy to be selected as part of this group and he did a great job!!  I wish I would have gotten a picture of him doing that, but they all turned out blurry.  It was just too dark where they were sitting.  Darn!

I also went to Jack's choir concert and Christmas spectacular.  They were both so fun!

Dallin and Thomas had a choir concert at the Junior High as well and I enjoyed it so much.  Choir was my thing as a teenager, and I am so enjoying watching my boys in choir.

Thomas also played a piano duet with a friend in Sacrament meeting today and played perfectly!  I am proud of him for being so brave!  It is not easy to play for the first time in front of the whole ward.

We are looking forward to Christmas and we are so thankful for all of our blessings!  Merry Christmas!

Catching Up

It has been too long since I posted, but I am still struggling to pull out my camera enough.  Oh well, I will make a goal to do better and get a post up with a few of the things that we have been doing over the past two months.

Jack and Tad playing with the zoo animals set on the Halloween quilt.  I don't know how much longer this kind of activity will be taking place in my house.

Drake turned nine!!!!  Very exciting for him, not as much for me.

All the boys dressed up for Halloween this year.  Last year Dallin decided he was over it, but this year, he had to support the Jr High Halloween social, since he is student body president, so that meant a costume for him.  We came up with this on the fly at about 10:00 at night on October 30th, but he liked it.  We also came up with Thomas's last minute Karate Kid headband late that night.  Thank goodness for a vinyl cutter and screen printing ink we had on hand.

We had planned ahead on the other boys.  Jack was Hawkeye (from the Avengers).  Drake was a Jedi, and Tad was Thor for the third year in a row.  I told him this had to be the last year, since he would be too big for the costume next year.  He isn't very happy about that, but I let him keep it out and he dresses up in it from time to time now.  I totally got my money's worth out of that costume!

Jeremy has been building a wall to surround our backyard.  Tad has been a good helper!

I did a little decorating for Thanksgiving.

And after Thanksgiving I did a little Christmas decorating.  I will try to share more of it over the next few weeks.

Sadly that is all the pictures I have to share, but I guess it is better than nothing.