Merry Christmas!

Sorry for the no posting for a while... We have had a lot going on in December and I have been taking pictures but not uploading them to the computer as fast as I usually do... With Josh gone a lot lately I have been running the show on my own and am dead on my feet by the end of the day and pretty much just drop on the couch or my bed! :) I am catching up now though so check out all the fun we have had in the past month - you even have to click on older posts at the bottom of the page to see all that we have been doing!

Sunday School Christmas Program

The kids had their Christmas program at church this past week also and they did great!! Beau had his part (as a star) down for the past month and did a great, animated job of it! Bella knew her part (as a sheep) also but refused to say it during all of our practices but came through during the real deal! Brody moved up to the big kids production and did a great job with his part as a traveler and the LOTS of songs that they had to learn!! It is so fun to watch them up on the stage...

Bella, minus her sheep head... We've got a stubborn girl on our hands!!

Beau

Brody waiting patiently...

Brody (his head is just barely visible! :)

Brody

Beau

Ice Skating

Sebeka has a new ice skating rink this year and the kids are very excited about it... Too bad the weather has been so ridiculously warm and the ice keeps melting on us! Josh was home last Friday and through the weekend so he brought the kids up to try out the new skates that we found them... The melting ice didn't stop our little Brian Botanos! :)

Brody

Beau, Brody, Bella

Beau

Beau

Beau's Christmas program

Beau had his Christmas program last Thursday night and he rocked the place! :) He was VERY enthusiastic and animated on the songs that he knew and definitely gave the crowd a good show! :)

More Santa!

Brody got his chance to finally go and see Santa after his Christmas program at school. We ran in, as usual Bella hid in the corner and both the boys got to jump on his lap!

Santa Braxton

Had to do it! :)

Getting ready for Christmas!

So, after Santa came the trip to get the tree... We get our trees from a family that we know just a couple of miles out of town and it is a treat to be able to go there every year. The kids are always excited to go and see Gene and pick out just the right tree! We are getting so many ornaments that the tree is going to tip at some point, but I love it... I love to tell them about each ornament, whose it is and where it came from as we are hanging them up!

Our mighty tree before it fell!


Bella helping Josh straighten the tree skirt! :)


Bella and Beau


Brody

Santa!

Santa came to town a few weekends ago and I took the kids to see him... Brody ended up with the flu and didn't come with us and Bella was too busy running the other way to get a picture with Santa - hopefully she won't be scared of him next year! :)

Beau telling Santa all about what he wants!




Braxton's first go round with Santa!