Here are some of the Christmas decorations I had around the house this past year:
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| These are the gifts I made for my primary class. |
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| The kids and I made these snowflakes for our window out of coffee filters from the dollar store. They turned out really cute and the girls loved hanging them in the window! |
Friday, January 23, 2015
Kitty was one of the students chosen from her class to participate in the school spelling bee. She did a good job of studying for it on her own at home. She was one of the younger students in the spelling bee and I could tell she was pretty nervous! She ended up missing her first word but was saved because the student after her missed it as well so she was able to get a new word which she spelled correctly. She ended up being one of he final 10 but then got out on the first round as a final 10. I'm not quite sure that they did all of the procedures correctly for the spelling bee... There were a lot of misspelled words and for a while they kept going back and forth between 2 students at a time because they were both misspelling the words. I think it was a good experience for Kitty and she enjoyed being up there representing her class.
January 16-17, 2015
A lot of the presents that DH got for Christmas this year were warm weather gear so that he could go with the scouts on their winter Klondike camp out in January. He was not super excited about it but I knew that if he had the right gear it would make the experience a little less painful for him! :)
They left on Friday afternoon and setup camp and then there were some activities that the boys participated in on Saturday morning before they left for home. Both DH and Luke survived the experience and no one froze. DH ended up sleeping in our van because they had more boys than they had anticipated and were short a tent. (And if I have any of these details incorrect, hopefully DH or Luke will correct me!)
Here are a few pictures that DH took:
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
My parents came over to ring in the new year with us. My sister and her family were invited as well but they had some sick family members so they decided not to come. We worked on some puzzles and played some games.
Friday, December 26
We got some snow on Christmas Day so the kids went sledding the next day. We have a little bit of a hill on the side of the house so the girls went sledding there and then I took them to the neighborhood park a little later in the day for some more sledding. These pictures are all from our yard because I went sledding with them at the park and I didn't want to bring the camera with me.
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Since we didn't have my family over for our Christmas Eve celebration, we ended up decorating our Christmas cookies and reading the nativity story from the scriptures. Then the kids opened up their Christmas pajamas.
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| M&M is trying to be a good sport and participate but she really wasn't feeling well! |
Sunday, December 21, 2015
Although Kitty didn't go to church with us, she still wanted to get dressed up in her Christmas dress! (Although we couldn't convince M&M to get in the picture!)
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| I got that cute tree in the background on clearance at Tai Pan Trading since it was nearing the end of the Christmas season. I loved it in that space in the living room! |
The Sunday before Christmas (Dec 21), Kitty woke up and immediately started throwing up! We ended up leaving her at home by herself for Sacrament Meeting because we were having our Christmas choir program and DH and I were both singing in the choir. She ended up feeling better as the day went on and ended up going to school the next day. Everyone seemed to be alright on Monday and then on Tuesday (Dec 23) MJ woke up throwing up and shortly after that I followed along with DH. Blondie also felt sick by I don't think she ended up throwing up - she did stay home from school though. It was a miserable day! It is the first time since I have known DH that he has actually thrown up!
On Christmas Eve morning M&M was throwing up and DH still wasn't feeling great. We had been planning on having a family Christmas party at our house on Christmas Eve but ended up having to cancel it because of our sickness. By Christmas morning everyone was almost back to normal -and I don't think that Luke and Kay ended up getting the sickness at all.
The only good thing about this sickness is that it was relatively short-lived and most of us were hit pretty hard but within 12 hours were feeling better.
Monday, December 22, 2014
Kay made these signs and put them at the bottom of our stairs so that Santa could find his way to our Christmas tree! Need to work on her spelling a little! :)
