An Eight Year Old, a Six Year Old, and a Four Year Old Tell the Christmas Story

Our house can be crazy, but the kids are learning something.  If you want to watch the videos of the kids telling the Christmas story, you will probably need to turn the volume all the way up.

Snow Day

 We had a couple of days of icy and snowy weather, which meant snow days for the kids.  We made the most of the 2.5 inches of snow we got Tuesday.  I apologize for the photo heavy post; I can't for the life of me figure out how to imbed albums from Google + or Picassa.  If anyone knows, please send me an email.  Enjoy the pics!

  Snowball fight:

 

Thanksgiving

We went to JD's parents for Thanksgiving, and we had a great time visiting with everyone.  All 17 of us were there, and it was the first time we'd all been together in nearly a year.  It was tight quarters; Julia slept in a bathroom, and we slept in the office.  This seemed to be a great move, though, as Julia slept much better than when we were there for Granny's funeral.  We have so much to be thankful for, and a family with great love for one another is definitely one of those things. We took lots of pictures, and you can see them at this link:
https://plus.google.com/photos/100898797291090070183/albums/5953994178816856433?authkey=CI7e6LiI5Zvc7QE

Here are a few favorites, though:

Isabel's ballet class

 Isabel took her first ballet class this fall at the local rec center.  She really enjoyed it, and today parents got to sit in class for a little performance. 

Here she is stretching:

Point and flex, point and flex:

 First position:

 Releve:

 Plie:

 Happy with all of the applause:

So much excitement:

 

With her great teacher, Ms. Ellen:

And a video of her in action:

Pierce-Soccer

 Pierce and Madelyn both played soccer this fall.  They played through a local rec league and both enjoyed it.  One of the parents on Pierce's team did such a great job of taking pictures and always shared them with the team.  I have a few of Madelyn that I will post later, but I don't have nearly as many good shots of her as  I do of Pierce.

Here are some action shots:

Pierce getting his trophy (not for merit, just for being on the team.  I'll keep my thoughts on that quiet for now.)

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His individual picture:

The Transformers:

Julia's Cage

Julia managed to get Pierce's hamper over herself and decided it was a lot of fun.  She walked around the house for quite a while like this.

Happy Halloween

We have Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker, and Doc McStuffins this year.  Julia went out with the kids but our rule is "If you can't say 'trick or treat' or 'thank you', you don't get candy.", so she was just along for the ride.

Doc McStuffins:

 Princess Leia:

Luke Skywalker:

 Julia making sure she gets in on the action:

 

All the costumes:

 

 Happy Halloween!