Emma's School Christmas Program

Emma has been really excited about her school Christmas Concert. Her bible teacher, Ms Logan does and excellent job telling the Christmas Story with the children acting it out and then leading the children in fun Christmas songs.

This is Ms. Logan, director extraordinaire.
Emma also kept a little secret from us.... May I present to you,

Wise Man Number 3! Emma had a part in the play and kept it as a surprise to us.
Here is the Christmas story as told by preschoolers:

Mary and Joseph were visited by angels to tell them about Jesus (Emma's good friend Marissa played Mary)

Baby Jesus was born in a Manger

An angel tells the shepherds about the baby Jesus

The shepherds go to see the baby Jesus

Here come the Wise men from afar

Emma told me later that her Wise men costume was a little big :)

The Wise men offer their gifts to the baby Jesus

Look here comes everyone!

Singing "Away in the Manger"
There was a quick costume change and then on with the concert


This was "Feliz Navidad" with the 2's class playing the Maracas

Emma was really good with the hand motions

We were so proud of Emma's performance!

Where in the world are Emma and Ian

Dan really likes to surprise us and this week he had a big one planned! We were having hardwood floors installed in our living area and we had to be out of the house, so he planned a little trip. Can you guess where we went????
Here are some pictures to help you guess....

We were the "Catch of the Day"

We waited in lines

and pooped out!

We are tall enough!

To go on the big rides!

Only to get stuck at the top of the hill and have to be rescued (She went on two more times after this!)

Ian enjoyed a tea party

And Emma visited with her favorite Princesses

We rode an elephant

and had a truly "magical" time

What a wonderful early Christmas Surprise!

Thanksgiving 2010

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving in Virginia this year visiting with friends and family. Before we left, Ian and I joined Emma at school for her Thanksgiving feast.

Emma enjoying her feast

Who is that little blond kid who made himself at home?

Ian plopped himself down with the big kids and had lunch

Emma really enjoyed dessert
While in Virginia , we got to visit with friends,


It always amazes me how quickly Emma and her friends become reacquainted

We also visited the Air and Space Museum where we saw this...

On Thanksgiving morning, our family woke up early to do a 5k Turkey Trot. There were runners....

and walkers...

Ian was a walker...

and a rider

Emma and Ian helped make Thanksgiving dessert


Ian helped with the dishes

There was a lot of I pad playing (A total of three I Pads were in the house!) Emma also spent a lot of time hanging with her older cousin.

Emma loved jumping in the leaves

This is the closest we could get Ian to the leaves

But he really enjoyed his Thanksgiving dinner!
We hope that everyone had a blessed and thankful holiday!

Fun at the Discovery Museum

Once again I am behind on blogging, so here is a little catch up. November and the first part of December flew by! In November, we had friends from Virginia (Who are relocating here for a year, Yeah!) in town. We introduced them to one of our favorite places, The Children's Discovery Museum. They have a Bob the Builder exhibit right now that Ian loved. Some of his favorite words are car, tractor, and truck.

Ian in the Tractor

Building

It was so fun to see Ian enjoying himself!

Emma and her friend, Owen playing in the circle exhibit

Dance Party!

We had a little dance party to this song in our house today!


And we dare your families to try to not get down to it, too!
I think this is our new favorite song :)

Halloween... the rest of the story

We had a great, busy halloween weekend this year. On Friday morning we headed over to Emma's preschool for their annual Fall Festival. There was a jump house, crafts, snacks, and treats. I was flying solo on this one and Charlie Brown kept wanting to run outside, so the only pictures I got were

Emma playing in the corn and

Decorating a cookie with insane amounts of frosting.
We went back to the same location that evening for a church hosted fall festival where we trick-car-treated, Emma won cupcakes in the cupcake walk, and we found out Emma has an insane bean bag throwing arm at the games. Not many pictures came out because it was dark and pretty crowded.
We relaxed on Saturday with no plans and prepared for the big event on Sunday.
On Sunday, we carved our very first family pumpkins

Emma did not want to touch the pumpkin goop

Daddy carved

Our finished products

Ian was fascinated with the inside of the pumpkin

Emma was proud of our creations

What is this??? A picture when both children looking at the camera and smiling? It's a halloween miracle!
That evening, with headed over to friends to trick-or-treat. We had quite the Motley Crew with

Charlie Brown, Lucy, Tinkerbell, Captain Hook, a train, and Daniel Boone

Around the corner we added Bat Girl, Bat Boy, Spiderman, and a baby ladybug.
We had a great time and came home with quite the stash of candy and lots of great memories.