Monday, December 15, 2008

Zoe's Dance Recital










Zoe had a dance recital today. She has been taking a dance class after school every Monday. They learn tap and ballet. I love the picture at the top. She was smiling so big waiting for the music to start and I could tell how excited and proud she was to dance on the stage for everyone. At the end they did the hokey pokey, so the picture at the bottom is Zoe "shaking it all about"

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Gingerbread Houses






Saturday night we had some friends over for Pizza and Gingerbread houses. The kids (especially Noah) ate about as much candy as they put on their houses and then ran around like wild animals way past their bedtimes. 

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Noah Meets Santa


I must be the meanest mom ever but this seriously cracks me up!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Christmas is Here!

The kids were really excited to get the tree, ornaments and christmas decorations out. It took me an hour to "fluff" the dang thing out during which the kids broke a few ornaments, made a mess and asked me "Is it ready yet?" about a thousand times. Dan set the mood by putting on Christmas music and making hot chocolate for us all. It was really fun and made me think of the good memories that I have of decorating the tree (or trees because sometimes my mom had 3) when I was little. I am so happy I get to have that experience with my kids now. They were getting really into the Christmas thing and started talking like Santa Claus was going to come tomorrow! I had to remind them how many days it was until Christmas. Then Gabe wanted to make sure that I wrote a note to Santa to let him know that we would be in Utah for Christmas and could he please bring our gifts there. He wanted to make sure that the note said "I am Jennifer Vanchiere Elton, could you please bring our family's gifts to my mom Rhonda Vanchiere's house in Utah" That way Santa would know exactly who we were. Kids are so stinking cute! The next day they spent all day playing with my Christmas Caroler statues and Decorative Christmas Boxes...dang...I should have wrapped those up and saved them for Christmas. Who knew they would find them to be so much fun? 

Decorating the Tree: