Lindale Christmas Drama

 This year Lindale kids put on the musical Miracle on Bethlehem Street.  Grace was a camel in the play.  You can see her with her ears on in the picture above.

 My two cute little actors.  I love Glen's face in the second picture!

 If you look in the first row in the picture above you can see Glen wearing brown.

If you look in the first row in the picture above you can see Grace wearing all white.

They both did a great job.  What a great way to celebrate the story of Christmas.

Glen is 5

 This sweet little boy turned 5.  He brings so much love and imagination to life.

 For his birthday he got a stuffed Luigi, stuffed mushroom guy, stuffed ghost guy, and Yoshi from the Super Mario Brothers Game he was and still is very happy about them.

 He also had a special playdate with his friend Joel from preschool.  They played duplos,

 Made this house.  They also played, cars and many other things.

They also got to "cook" where they got to have chocolate pudding and they decorated and topped it as they wanted.

1. How old are you? 5

2. Who is your best friend?  Joel Nafziger

3. What is your favorite thing to do?  Play with Luigi

4. What is your favorite color? Green

5. What is your favorite food? Rice

6. What do you like to do with your family?  Play Games

7. What is your favorite toy? Baby Kitty

8. What do you want to be when you grow up? A Baker (make snacks)

9. What makes you happy?  Baby Kitty

10.  What makes you sad?  Falling

11.  What is your favorite show to watch?  Darkwing Duck

12.  What is your favorite book? Alphabet Under Construction

13.  What do you love to learn about? Math

14.  What is the best part of your birthday?  When Joel came over

15.  Where do you like to go?  Mamaw's and Papaw's

16.  Who was your teacher?  Mrs. Hess and Mrs. Hiser

17.  What is your favorite treat? Crackers

18.  What do you think about right before you fall asleep? Super Mario Brothers Characters

19.  If you could meet anyone famous, who would it be?  Luigi

20.  What was your favorite birthday present?  The Luigi character

Merry Christmas 2016

First Race

 On Thanksgiving Grace ran her first race.  She ran the Gobble Gobble Kids Dash which was .33 of a mile while I ran the 4 mile Turkey Trot afterward.

 She was so excited to get running.

 She loved that a guy in a turkey suit led all of the kids in a stretching warm up.

 She ran as fast as she could and I think that she did a great job.

 The next day we saw the newspaper and saw that Grace kind of made it into the newspaper.  If you look at the picture below in the bottom left hand corner you can see her striped pants and her gray shirt.  So she kind of made it in...

She is already talking about doing more races.  I am so excited to share running with her.

Poster Contest Winner

 One day Grace brought home a poster saying that there was a contest to draw a poster for the fire department about checking smoke detectors.

 We were so busy that week that it was set aside.  Then a few days later I asked Grace if she wanted to do it.  She said yes so I pulled out the crayons, colored pencils, and markers.  I gave her a few sheets of white paper and underlined the words that were required to be on the poster.

 She went to work and started to run back and forth from our smoke detector and the table where she was drawing.  Before long she said she was done.

I sent in the poster to school with her the next day.  A few weeks later we got notice that Grace had won first place in her age group!  We went to Keister Elementary School for the reception.

Her art teacher was there to support her!

 Grace Got a ribbon, and a Walmart gift card, and a large bag with lots of random goodies in it.

I am so proud of my budding artist!

Pictures Please

Here are just some really great pictures of the kids (and one of me)

We went to vote on a chilly day in November and got a fun picture out of the deal.

 I am very happy of this picture of Glen.  This is his "school" picture.  I say it like that since he is not in school and we do not usually get school pictures.  But this is the one that will be hanging on our wall for the next year.

 This is Grace's school picture.  I really like how it turned out.  I almost want to take another one of her to have it brighter and crisper, but this one is very good for now.

Halloween Part 2

 This year halloween fell on a Monday.  Since it was a school night, also since we had been trick or treating before and trunk or treating twice we decided to stay home on Halloween.

 We made it a very special night though.  Glen wanted to dress up so he was Luigi.  Grace just wore one of her Halloween shirts.  We painted our pumpkins.

 Here is Glen with the two pumpkins he painted.

 Here is Grace with her and Glen's pumpkin.

 They both wanted to pose with the pumpkins.

 Then I had the kids help me make supper.  We had hotdogs wrapped in crescent rolls to make them look like a mummy.  They also had macaroni and cheese and carrots in hummus.

 They loved wrapping the hotdog and they really liked that we ate on the porch like a picnic.

Then to finish the night out we played games and handed out candy.  The kids had so much fun.  I am glad that we had a very special and unique night.  What a fun Halloween.