christmas happenings

we have been rocking and rolling these last few weeks with all sorts of christmas events.  december is always nuts, but we have made it halfway through!

last sunday, our kids at church put on a christmas program.  william started it off by playing the prelude!

then our kiddos told the story of the coming of jesus through scripture and song.  i only got this one picture of the boys, but they all did a great job!

the 4th and 5th grade put on a christmas production at school called "the light has come."  william likes to play music for an audience, but it's pretty clear that he may have reached the age where singing and dancing is not really his thing (at least if it's not in the car or the playroom)!  i'm thinking his buddy, will, beside him might feel the same way!  ha!

regardless, they did a great job, and these boys were happy to be finished!

on the last day of school yesterday, william again provided christmas music for 30 minutes before school started.  they set up a keyboard in the lobby, and he just went to town!

this was part of the "audience" that decided to sit and listen for a while! :)

reed and wes didn't have to do much performing this season, but they did party hard on their last day of school.  reed and weston were thrilled to be getting out of school for a few weeks!

wes was just pumped to have a bag full of candy!

hello, christmas break!!!

learning fair #2!

we are rocking along with projects over here!  the 3rd grade learning fair was last week, and wes is a master on all things john smith.  he worked really hard on his pizza box and was quite proud of all of his hard work!  personally, i am quite proud that there is only one learning fair left!!  :)

the john smith pizza box...

the crew happy to be finished with their projects!!
mary elliott, emme, wes, and audrey...

moving on....end of the semester, here they come!!

one holiday to the next

we made the rounds on thanksgiving.  despite the fact that i was in the delta and jackson during the week, my camera would make you believe that we did nothing!  i have exactly three pictures from thanksgiving!!

in the woods (with a book)...

this is what happens when you fall asleep in the kitchen...

road tripping'...

and once we got home, we put the pumpkins into hibernation and got the christmas tree up!  every year my kids get a new ornament to add their collection.  it has something to do with their personality or something they have enjoyed throughout the past year.  they are usually different, but this year they all got the same ornament!  all the dak fans were happy!!  go cowboys!

once again, wes was in charge of setting up the nativity.  and once again, everybody is all up in the stable seeing baby jesus!  :)

so here we go.  the countdown to christmas is on!

first grade learning fair

reed had his learning fair about two weeks ago.  he read the book "flat stanley," and then he created his own flat stanley.  after shipping stanley off to utah to spend some time with our friends, the cowards, he came back home with tales of adventures out west and pictures to go along with it!  reed made a scrapbook and a board to go along with his presentation.  out of all the cool places that he visited, reed was most excited that flat stanley got to go to the MSU game at BYU!

reed and henry...

one learning fair down....two to go!

we're kinda glad it's over!

we are true maroon, but let's be honest...we rode the struggle bus this year!  it's part of being a bulldog, but i'm ready to put this season behind us and move on!!  i know there is still one game left, but our home games are over (and we will not be making the trip to oxford).  so...good-bye to football season!

we had fabulous weather for the games this year!  hot and sunny....just the way i like it!  the good part (in my opinion) about not being any good is that you don't have to play many late games!

these two goofballs ran ahead of us one day on the way back to the car and stopped in front of the library at this bench to read with their "friends."

thankfully we only had to dress like this for one game.  we didn't win it either, but we were prepared and warm!

and now we are moving on to basketball!  go dawgs!

flu shot winner

flu shots are tough around here.  every year we have a competition to see who can show the least emotion while getting a shot.  every year the same person loses.  bless him....he was crying before we even got there and saying, "i'm going to really try.  i'm going to try hard."

i guess he couldn't try hard enough.

oh well.  there's always next year!!  

trick or treat

we are still riding high on our ryder cup victory over here, so we didn't look around too hard for costumes!  this year we had rickie fowler, zach johnson, and jordan spieth.

they really like rory, too, but since he wasn't american he didn't make the cut this time!

we loaded up and went door to door with the cordells and came home with way too much candy!  but i did enjoy not freezing while on the trailer this year.  i could handle the weather being this way every year!!

as soon we got home, the sorting began!  reed called dibs on the whoppers and hershey's.  the other two just like any and all of it!!

now on to the all of the chaos that the end of the year brings.  at least we've got enough sugar to get us through!