Ellie and Santa.

I had Christopher and Ellie at the mall last week and she wanted to see Santa again. Christopher would not, he said he already had his photo done with Santa! Silly mom. Oh well, we can put this one in her own album.

Merry Christmas!

We made our gingerbread houses yesterday with Kurt and Lilian. It was a fun afternoon.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone.

Why I love having a mini large family!

Here is a photo of Christopher playing with Griffyn, it was so cute watching the two of them together. Christopher really likes him! He calls him Griff because he says he is so cute and is excited that they may share a room together. He wants one of those trundle beds so Griffyn can sleep right by him. We are no different to any other family, the kids have their fights and differences sometimes but they also have each other, and that is a good thing!

Santa breakfast and Christmas parade!

It was breakfast with Mrs. Claus last month and breakfast with Santa this month. Every year we go to the same Santa breakfast, it's fun for the kids! Lyndsey took the photos.




It wasn't nearly as cold this year for the parade. They all had fun drinking their hot chocolate and watching the parade go by. Griffyn and I didn't make it, I didn't want to take him out in the cold.

Preschool party!

Ellie and Christopher had a nice Christmas party at school. They sang some Christmas songs for the parents and guests, had some nice snacks and Santa made an appearance. Their teacher Mrs. Janet did a lovely job putting the party together for the kids. They both really love her. Christopher was funny, this was the first time we were able to get him to go sit on Santa's lap, when he finished his visit he came over to me and said, he doesn't look like Santa!

Cai as Santa! / Rhys's Choir concert

Cai was Santa at the school's primary show last week. He had lots of fun playing St. Nick! He did a great job with his lines too, he is full of surprises.



The previous day Rhys's peers had their choir concert. Rhys played a little ukulele solo at the beginning of one song.

We had another concert to go to for Rhys's ukulele group that meet once a week. It was really good, the kids are playing well for only starting in September. I was so mad, I took my camera but forgot my memory card, so I didn't get any video,

I have some cute video of the school concerts though.

Kung Fu Fighting!

A few weeks ago Rhys and Cai went for their first belt testing for karate. They were both excited that they passed and got their yellow belts. Belt testing is a little confusing for us, none of my boys have done karate before. Now that they have their yellow belts there are different levels of testing, then they go up to an orange belt. They start a new session of karate in January!