Preschool at our house

Dec. 15, 2010

Caleb called me into his room this morning and this is what I saw. 30 of his cars and trucks meticulously stacked in his window seal.














At 10 the kids showed up and after the lesson, book and practicing with the scissors was done the real fun began. They made a train track in our living room and had train races on the carpet.


While Amber and I were talking(after preschool) Hannah found my makeup and made herself "pretty."












Tonight we finished our Gingerbread house. The kids had fun decorating with and eating the candy. They were both very proud of their hard work.

"P" week

Dec. 13 - Dec. 17

We didn't have preschool last week so we kept the letter "O" stuff up for 2 weeks.

Monday: Animals - African Penguin and Panda
Tuesday: Social Studies - Pilgrims
Thursday: Craft/Activity - Puzzles

Composer: Johann Pachelbel - Cannon in D
Poem: "People" from Skipping Village 1927

To work little reindeer

Dec. 13, 2010

When Caleb decides to clean he goes all out. He cleans the places I don't think many people consider. Such as the back of the cupboard under the kitchen sink. Hey... it is right next to the trash can which is really dirty. It makes sense when you think about it.

We then went to Connie's after the cupboard had met Caleb's approval and tried on Grandma's reindeer hats. We helped her get down the rest of the Christmas decorations from the attic (but let Hannah get the really heavy boxes because our backs were sore).




















While Grandma hung the wreaths Caleb set up a little Christmas village on her table. Caleb was especially excited about the train from San Fransisco. He was a smidgen more excited when we told him it was a trolley.

Picture Time

Dec. 11, 2010

Trish Neville met us at Hart park this afternoon to take a few pictures for us this year. I think children instinctively know when it's "family picture" time.... and they don't like it.








Of course in 2 seconds Cory and I were able to smile and look at the camera at the same time so we, of course, got a frame worthy picture of ourselves...














Here's one that didn't make the cut.














While Trish and I drove around the Park looking for a spot Cory and the kids took a stroll around and managed to stay perfectly clean.














A darling candid shot of Hannah. Wow Trish. Wow!

Make some bread

Nov. 9, 2010

Sis. Peterson invited a few of us (Jen Garrett, Amber Cola, Monica Munn and me) over to her house today so she could teach us how to make her yummy wheat bread. Yea... it's yummy.




























After the bread was baked and each of took a loaf home Roegan invited us over so OF course we had to accept. Amber's backyard had a lot of leaves on the grass so I thought let's rake them up and make a leaf pile for the kids to jump into. Not only did they jump in and toss them but they piled them up the slide and took turns going down head first into a big pile of leaves at the bottom.






It was a good day!

It got even better...

Cory cane home early tonight. When I opened the door he handed me a special birthday cake. When he ordered the cake from Smith's bakery the woman asked, "How old is your little ballerina?" Cory answered, "30." The woman was silent. "Hello?" said Cory. "Is she a dance instructor?" "No... she's a dancer." The woman paused and then moved on. Name? hair color? eye color?
We went out to dinner at Maria Bonita's and the kids were darling! They have never been so good (at the same time [at a restaurant] ). Afterward the children went to bed and then Cory and I watched Eclipse. It wasn't Cory's favorite but he watched it with me.

I'm 30!

Dec. 8, 2010

Today is my birthday. Cory made me a sign and bought me the Eclipse movie. I'm super excited. He said that we would watch it together tonight. He also said that he would get off work an hour early to be home with me this evening. My Mom made me a Christmas table runner and said she would buy me tickets to either see the Rocketes or the Moscow Ballet at the Fox. Guess what I picked? Yes, the Ballet! Connie bought me a cd of Andean folk music. I LOVE this music. I have always wanted to buy one of these cd's but never have.



















My Mom picked us up this morning, dropped off Caleb at preschool and then we went to Amber's house again to make cookies. Each of us brought a batch of cookie dough to bake at Amber's house and then divided up the finished treasures 3 ways. I forgot my camera so I don't have any fun pictures to share. But next week we get together on Thursday to make some more treats. I'll bring my camera then.