Christmas concerts

Kyla has been apart of two Christmas concerts this year. The first was at Church with our Thursday morning group of kids korner. They were so cute. With two of her closest friends beside her...a girl friend from school in red and Sam hugging her!





The 2ND was a School. There were so many preschoolers. All so cute. Kyla in her new Christmas dress, was proud as punch to sing her two songs and say her poem. She was great at preforming in front of all those people.

1st Christmas

We have a daughter that seems to think she is a hobbit(Lord of the Rings series)...She has first breakfast and second breakfast...she has 11ees and 1st and 2ND lunch...Some times that is an exaggeration but often that is honestly how our little skinny girl eats. Why am I telling you this...our family has also started a Christmas tradition the last few years and have a 1st Christmas, 2ND Christmas and sometimes a 3rd Christmas. It sounds a bit crazy but we love when family comes to visit early in December. We would much rather family come and celebrate early with them then not at all. That is exactly what happened again this year. Mom came from Wpg early this year and we had our 1st Christmas.


We planned on having Turkey Dinner with Grandma while she was here and invited Gramma and Grandpa to join us.

Grandma and Mark wanted to decorate our table for Turkey Dinner and I didn't have any napkin holders....what would most people do? Go without. What would two greatly creative people do? Make napkin holders just an hour before the guests arrived. They turned out great and even more, Mark was so proud of his first time using the hot glue gun on his own (with supervision!)

Great job both of you...it make the table look great!

Tea Party

Kyla decided she needed a girl party. A "just because" party. She invited some of her friends and 2ND cousins. Each girl was asked to bring one of their dolls. The girls had real tea at their tea party and the dolls all sat around their own table.
After the party some of the girls dressed up as princesses and played puppets.






What a fun party "JUST BECAUSE". They're girls, what other reason do they need?

Skip-Bo

I grew up playing this game and honestly it's been years since I played it.

Some girl friends brought the game to the recent women's retreat and I can't even tell you how many times we played...quite a few to say the least...

Our kids both can play which makes games more interesting when adults and kids can both enjoy the same game.

The crazy thing is that there are so many of us girls into this game right now that we've already planned a Skip-Bo tournament in the new year.