All is well here on the old homefront. The school year is going great...the first semester is behind us....and besides a few very small bumps in the road, things are going great! For the most part, the kids seem to love learning. We were SO ready for Christmas break. I think we had all reached "burn out point" in November. We are really enjoying the time off. We'll start back January 3rd, hopefully refreshed. :O)
Christmas was wonderful, with the exception of Amy not being here again. :O( Hopefully next year she'll at least be on the North American continent and can make it home for the holidays. I'll post a few pics of Christmas Day....this is the first Christmas we've had where there were NO toys!!! Woohoo! Nope...I don't miss those days of tears on Christmas Day because that favorite toy broke not 5 minutes out of the box. :O) Hope Christmas for you and yours was just as grand as ours! And now...onto the pictures!
First and foremost, here is Matt's annual Christmas picture....same ol' thing year after year. Soon as the gifts are opened and ooh-ed and aah-ed over, he snatches the first blanket he can find and covers his head and goes to sleep! hahaha! Wouldn't be Christmas without this picture.
First and foremost, here is Matt's annual Christmas picture....same ol' thing year after year. Soon as the gifts are opened and ooh-ed and aah-ed over, he snatches the first blanket he can find and covers his head and goes to sleep! hahaha! Wouldn't be Christmas without this picture.
Rachel got a really nice music stand for violin practice, a music bag, a purse, the cutest little pocketknife with flowers on it, and some books and clothes...
Jacob got several books he requested, a fascimile copy of the 1560 Geneva Bible (also a request), a slick new red dress shirt :O), a wallet, a watch, and a few other goodies... 
Katie got a much-wanted comforter set with horses on it, a coat, a neato put-it-together-yourself skeleton kit (I'll post pictures later when it's finished), an ant farm, some dresses, the same cutest little pocketknife with flowers on it that Rachel got, and several other things that made her smile and say "Oh wow! Thanks Mom!" :O)
Katie got a much-wanted comforter set with horses on it, a coat, a neato put-it-together-yourself skeleton kit (I'll post pictures later when it's finished), an ant farm, some dresses, the same cutest little pocketknife with flowers on it that Rachel got, and several other things that made her smile and say "Oh wow! Thanks Mom!" :O)I got a VERY nice multifunction printer from my Amy :O) I love that thing! And I got a bird feeder, (or should I say ANOTHER birdfeeder....I can never have too many of those things! It was filled with candy canes cause Jacob knows I love 'em!) and a JCPenney gift card (already spent it!) *excuse the picture...I was still in my jammies :O)
I'll try not to wait so long to post again. Until next time...tootaloo! :O)
1 comment:
You and mom are alike with you birdhouse feddish :-) Looks like you guys had a good Christmas! The blanket pic is pretty funny! -Jen
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