Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Christmas Ornament Craft Night!

From Christmas 2011
Tonight we made Christmas Ornaments!

From Christmas 2011
I made an angel and a Santa (not pictured).

From Christmas 2011
Theo, Emmaline, and Mama made a Santa and a Christmas Tree.

From Christmas 2011
Now we have more ornaments for our tree! I can't wait to find out what we do tomorrow!

Monday, November 28, 2011

Christmas (Tree) is Here!

From Christmas 2011
Today we all put up our Christmas tree for Advent. Mama and Daddy say we'll have to take it down and put it back up in our new house before Christmas, but what would Christmas be without a tree?

From Christmas 2011
Theo helped put up ornaments.

From Christmas 2011
And so did Meredith. She put them up as high as she could reach!

From Christmas 2011
I'm so excited for Christmas to come! Can it be tomorrow? This Advent waiting thing is going to be hard!

Sunday, November 27, 2011

A candle of Hope

From Christmas 2011
Today we start Advent. This year Mollie put together activities to do with the kids each day of advent. Some are simple, some are silly, hopefully all will help teach something about Advent.

Today we used a Sunday School activity -- decorating a yule log Advent "wreath." Tonight before dinner we lit the first candle and talked about how Advent is about waiting... for Jesus to be born. We talked about waiting for things, like for our presents, for moving into our new house, and of course for Jesus our Savior.

I hope each day to take pictures of what we do so everyone can experience Advent with us too. Visit every day to see what the kids did that day!

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Sneak Preview

From Christmas 2011
Yesterday we went to a park and Daddy took our pictures. Something about a card that Mama and Daddy will mail out to a bunch of people.

From Christmas 2011
I just liked that I could wear some bling! (I really like necklaces lately.)

From Christmas 2011
Theo got to smile in his candy cane wreath.

From Christmas 2011
And Meredith LOVED her flower wreath. She almost couldn't wait to take this picture while we were taking the walking picture.

Thank you Mama for making the wreaths and thank you Daddy for taking our pictures!

Saturday, November 19, 2011

It is SNOWING!!!

From Meredith Jane 4 Years
Today it snowed outside. There was enough snow for us to go outside and play!

From Theodore Elial 2 Years
Theo came outside and played too. He tried throwing a snowball at Daddy while he was taking pictures.

From Theodore Elial 2 Years
Mama and Gilligan came out and played too. Emmaline was sleeping inside :( Maybe next time she can come out and play too?

I LOVE Daddy's Pumpkin Pie!

From Emmaline Ruth 1 Year
Daddy made too much pie filling to put in his pie. Well, that's just too bad ;) He made "personal" pies in small dishes with the extra filling.

Do you know what that means?

From Emmaline Ruth 1 Year
I got to eat my own personal pumpkin pie! And I LOVED it!

Halloween... BUGS! (better late than never)

From Halloween 2011
This year's Halloween costume theme was bugs. I was a ladybug.

From Halloween 2011
Meredith Jane was a ladybug too. And Theo was a bumble bee.

We all went trick-or-treating and had a GREAT time!