Reflections 2013-2014

Emily decided to do a video this year for Reflections at our school.  The theme was Believe, Dream, Inspire, and she made a video about learning how to do the monkey bars. It was really cute!  She won an award at the school level and got to go on to the city level. We found out in early January that she was receiving an award of merit from the city level.  We are so proud of her and her amazing artistic mind!  Way to go, Em!!

 Emily with our PTA president and our assistant principal.

Emily and her medal :-)

Zoo Lights

We love going to the Hogle Zoo's Zoo lights each year.  We loved it again this year!!  Here are the highlights:

 We all, especially Ashley, loved our hot chocolate!  Boy, I love this picture of her!!

 I love my sweetheart!!

We had a great night even though it was cold!

Christmas 2013

Christmas was wonderful.  We stayed home and it was so nice!!  Here's a picture summary of our day:

The girls' countdowns were finally done so that means…..it's finally Christmas!!

 Exploring their loot in their stockings

 Santa gifts

 The girls' favorite Santa gift…tummy stuffers

 Our tree with presents…and a cutie pie in front

 Emily's Santa loot

 Tyler got Zurg and was beyond excited!!  It's so cute to see him play with Buzz and Zurg!

 The girls gave each other gifts this year.  This is them hugging each other for the gifts.

 Kenny surprised me with a beautiful proclamation on the family plaque with family pictures around it.  I LOVE IT!!

 Tyler also loving his Elmo

 One of the girls main presents…a Lego house

 Tyler got a bat and ball...

 that he quickly turned into a sword.  This is his sword stance

 Ashley got a karate outfit…she loved it!

Ashley's Christmas loot

It was a great, great day!  Merry Christmas everyone!!

December Events

Yes, I know it's March but I have this thing about Chronological order so I am up to December now. :-)
We had a lot of fun activities in December.  Take a look:

 The girls had their Nutracker performance.  Ashley was a candy cane and Emily was a tree.  I can't for the life of me figure out why I don't have a picture of Emily as a tree, but oh well.  She was very lovely. :-)

 One of Ashley's friends from school was in her class too

 Our family, grandma and grandpa, and cousin that came to support our sweet girls

 Ashley had her 1st grade sing.  She did so great!!

 The girls enjoyed my "super" donut from another teacher

 It was red and green day at school for Emily and Polar Express day for Ashley

 This was also our last day of school before Christmas Break!  Hooray!

I LOVE December.  I think it's my favorite month at school because of what I teach in class and all the wonderful activities at school/church/home.