Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

little boy, BIG instrument

I think I mentioned to many of you how Ethan had the opportunity to play the organ in our church for the primary program.  (a yearly program the children of the ward put on)  While my mom was visiting, they did their run through and she took a little video of him playing.  I finally got a hold of a copy!  It's a bit blurry, but you can get the idea.  He looked so little up there!  Enjoy!

12

I just can't let the whole day slip by without saying Happy Anniversary to us!  It's been 12 great years!

Hee Haw, Hee Haw, Baby Jesus We Love You!

Chandler's little pre-school did the cutest program today.  They have been practicing for weeks and Chandler was thrilled to be cast in the part of the Donkey.  It was so nice to go to a Christmas program that actually acknowledged the reason that we have this season, and didn't just sing songs about Santa, as much as I love the big guy.  It was darling!  Thank you Noah's Place Pre-school!

Carol of the Bells

So proud of our little music man!

ham and jam

Aidan and I had a little exchange this afternoon about how he must make himself a ham or PB sandwich before he would be allowed to play Wii.

Mom:  Make yourself a PB or ham sandwich, I know you're old enough.

Aidan:  I don't want to.  Make it myself?????  are you serious?

Mom:  Yes.  You can do it.  Now do it.

Aidan proceeds to make a jam sandwich.  When he's digging into it, I notice there is no PB.  

Mom:  did you put PB on that?

Aidan:  No.

Mom:  Like I said earlier, if there is no protein on the sandwich you have to eat another one.

Aidan:  Fine!

He heads back to the kitchen to finish up.  When I turn around again, this is what I see. . .

Um. . .  

Well, at least he ate it.

Zat you Santy Clause?

We paid a little visit to a local "mall" (if you can call it that) yesterday.  Cedar Mills Crossing.  We were just looking for somewhere dry to let the children run around.  They have the tiniest play place in the world, but it suited our needs.  We were eating some lunch before play time and the kids spotted Santa at the end of the hall.  Emilee kept looking at him, waving, etc.  When all the kids were done sitting on his lap (this was an EMPTY mall) he came over to say hello to our kids.  They all enjoyed this quick little visit.  He was such a nice Santa!

 Santa had a magical way of telling if the kids had been naughty and nice.  He just tapped them on their nose with his index finger, and if there was a little squeak, that meant they were on the nice list!  Luckily, all of our kids passed the squeak test!

Thanks for the visit Santa, even though we weren't "paying customers."  As Santa said yesterday, "Santa always has time to visit with children."

Snoodle Returns!

It's December first!  Hurray!  Christmas is really coming, can you feel it?  We were feeling it this morning because Snoodle, our North Pole Elf is back for his annual visit.  He keeps an eye on things and gives the "big guy" the naughty and nice report every evening while we sleep.  The kids have been looking for him since the day after Thanksgiving, wondering when he would show up again. . .

 Aidan read the book to all the kids this morning before school.  Everyone was excited!

Can't wait to see where he pops up tomorrow morning!