Friday, January 2, 2009

Student of Virtue






Each 6 weeks the school has an assembly by grade in which they award and recognize students for their grades and attendance. Raistlyn has managed to be acknowledge every time for her straight A's - occasionally for perfect attendance and just this last time she was awarded the student of Virtue award for Responsibility. We are so proud of you Raistlyn!

2nd Grade Christmas Play





2nd Grade put on a production entitled "The Greatest Christmas Card (In the Whole Wide World)" The kids were all dressed up as toys, angels, Christmas Trees, snowmen, dancers, Santa and his reindeer, the Nativity characters, etc. It was so cute...they acted out different scenes you would typically see on a Christmas card as they sang and danced. Raistlyn was the announcer and did a wonderful job!

Christmas Eve at the Grandparents






We finished off Christmas Eve at Grandma & Grandpa Patterson's House. There is always good food and fun with cousins. Rowan especially likes to explore Grandma's pretties - she found that lei and an ornament that played "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas that had her giggling with delight." We noshed on Grandpa's venison chili, Aunt Annette's yummy appetizers, Aunt Gloria's yummy cookies, Italian sodas and of course Grandma's scones.

Christmas Eve Festivities

We had a little lunch date with our friends the Bickles on Christmas Eve. Irma made everything just perfect for the kids. They ate, did a couple crafts then had a gift exchange. So much fun!We'll definitely do this again next year.

Christmas Morning at the Camphuysens

This was the scene before the munchins arose from their slumber. Notice the button there? It must have fell off of Santa's coat ~ Raistlyn found it by accidentally sitting upon it Christmas morning. We'll save it until next year and give it back to him.

We had forgotten to put them to bed in their Christmas jammies so we had to hurry and do it before pictures in the morning.

I think the baby doll was the PERFECT gift for Rowan. She loves baby Stella. She rocks her, hugs her and kisses her. She especially loves to push her around in her stroller.


Raistlyn loved her Angel ornament from Grandma Knight. She gets one every year.


Raistlyn had outgrown her little bike so it was definitely time for a new one. You should see her fly up and down the street!

Of course she hates it when the biggest box she has under the tree always has a few pair of necessities in it...boy Santa sure has a sense of humor!

Caiden just can't get enough of his Lego Star Wars game. It's the first thing he asks for when he wakes up in the morning....a Jedi in the making ~ his Daddy is so proud.

This was the toy at the top of Caide's wish list. You know how kids are when they see those commercials on TV right? The bath blizzard is actually pretty cool ~ makes bathtime super fun.

It's our tradition for the past several years to have my parents and two of my sisters over for Christmas dinner. We baked the biggest ham ever this year and had a wonderful time together celebrating the birth of our Savior.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Forget the baking and make this instead

I think this project is so nifty.
The kids will love to help decorate the house for the holidays.
I think I'll make mine out of wood and use it as a yard decoration.
Find all the yummy the details
here.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

2nd Grade Twin Day

Raistlyn & Savannah all decked out in their
Rockin' HSM T's for Twin Day at school

Then they transformed into monsters ~
check out Savannah's crazy red popsicle tongue!


and here's the Triplets~ Alley C., Allee T. & Mikayla