Preschool Christmas Concert

This fall Lane has been going to the little preschool at Riverside. He's having fun and liking it. They put on a little Christmas concert before Christmas break.

This is Miss Roxanne, lane's teacher. Lane wasn't in a picture taking mood this day....
Here's the kids from all 4 classes. Lane is the tallest kid I think.

They sang "jingle bells" and "we wish you a merry Christmas" It was pretty cute. I was a little disapointed because usually lane sings SO LOUD...he is the kid that everyone hears. But this day he wasn't really in a performing mood...i'm not even sure if he sang at all :) But it was fun to go and watch...

I think Lane was a little nervous, he kept playing with his shirt sleeves, and looking around. It's fun to get to see some of the kids he will go to Kindergarden with next year. The little boy next to Lane is his "best friend" he seems like a fun kid....

Here's to fun new experiences and preshool concerts!! It's a whole new world we're entering :) So far it's fun!

1 more year!

Scott only has one more year of youth left in him! He turned 29 this year.....

I had to get a little creative with the candles.....:)
Macy is ready to help Daddy blow out his candles

make a wish!!

We love you, Scott!!! Thank you for being a great husband and Daddy!

Bread

So I have had a curse about me when I have ever tried to make bread that has yeast in it......

SO I had my amazing friend/baker come and teach me the ways......

and voila!! here's my first loave of home-made wheat bread.....that was not a total rock!!!

Thank you Sheila!!! There may be hope for me yet!

Christmas!

No, I didn't forget about Christmas....I just SLOW!!! :) Here's some pictures from our Christmas Day:

Sitting at the top of the stairs before going down....I forget what time it was, but really wasn't too bad...probably 6:30 or 7, but that's when they always woke up. I'm pretty sure that I was laying there awake before any of the kids woke up!

Lucy and Macy got a fun new kitchen set!!!

Daddy trying to figure out Lane's transformer :)

Lucy making us breakfast!

Trying out a new coloring book!

Testing out his new BB Gun....

Macy got a new stroller

This is NOT a new teddy bear....but she was so excited to give him a ride! hehe

Lucy got some sweet sun glasses

Macy had lots of chocolate in her stocking :)

Later on Christmas day Scott's family all came over for some fun! This is lane's cousin Kogan. They played super-hero's pretty much the entire evening :)

No need to fear when these two are near!!!

O Christmas tree!

The day after Thanksgiving, we went out to the backyard and searched long and hard for the PERFECT tree! It took about 5 mins and we FOUND IT!

Here's Lane with HIS tree.....for his toy room..

hauling the trees back to the house...

Here it is!!! here's the boys cutting it down

Lane even got to use the saws-all a little bit!

Lane carrying his tree, he's so strong!

Here's some fun little window pretties I made!

I discovered a love for berry decorations! I.LOVE.THEM!

More window pretties

One more stocking added this year. I love our stockings. They make me laugh nearly every time i see them! Good thing we have room on our mantle for a few more!!! :)

a cute little table runner I made....

more window ptretties!

ahhhhhhhhhhhh here it is!!!!!

Isn't that the most glorious tree!?!?! OH i love it!

We've come along way in the tree department. I should post a picture of our very first Christmas tree :)

this is my favorite one though!! Hope everyone is excited for this Christmas season!

Family pics 2011

YAAAY they're finally here....

Look at my handsome fellas......i just love them!!!

this is by far the funniest picture....nothing warms the heart of a mother like two scowling daughters forced to take their picture with their mama!!!

deep thoughts....

Lane's face in this is priceless :) This is his super hero shot!!

sassy....

our poor photographer tried so hard to get me to take a "serious" face picture and i just cannot do that to save my ever lasting soul....so she finally said, "Just bury your face in his shoulder" yes...i can do that!!!!

where were the kids when we took this picture??? Well...locked in the van with 20 bags of fruit snacks watching a movie if you must know!! :)

I actually love this one....i'm going to have

"stand ye in holy places" accross the bottom and put it up somewhere ...cute!!!

ahhhhhhh my favorite!!!! This is the whole reason for the day of torture for the kids....I just wanted ONE nice family picture to hang over my piano. This is as good as it gets with my kids :) At least they're all mostly smiling!!

Cutie 1 and cutie 2

fun!!!! Well *I* had fun taking our family pics....Scott was pretty much miserable with Macy and lane and lucy could take it or leave it....mostly leave it....Suffice to say we won't be doing this again for several years :) But at least i got some cute pictures!!!!! YAAY

pretties!

Two cuties...

just for fun, we dressed up and took some pictures with our tree!! lane wasn't feeling it this day, we'll get him on Christmas :)