Songbird

The First Lady had a little solo in the church play. She was nervous for days and I was nervous for her. I mean, we're talkin' about a girl who's still afraid to sleep in her own bed at night. How's she supposed to get up in front of the church to sing??? She did it once before, in her kindergarten class talent show, but that was only for a few parents.

{Be sure to pause the music to the left!}

She did a wonderful job and you can almost see how relieved she was that it was over!

Her brothers were waiting for her at the end. They won't admit it, but they were proud of her too:)

We are so blessed to be able to attend such an awesome church. They had been working on this program for quite a while and the end result was quite spectacular. Thank you Jeff and Becky, Justin and Sarah and more I'm sure I've forgotten to mention. Our whole family enjoyed the production so much that we are still talking about it!

The Blizzard

So during one of Minnesota's worst, we holed up inside and revved up the holiday spirit. We decorated trees, 3 in all

And I told the story how when we were little, my brother and I used to lay under the Christmas tree and look up to see the lights and ornaments. Lil' Lady saw them wedged under there and had togive it a try too

Our oldest got up early that morning and helped me make the ice candles. Knowing it would hit minus ten by evening, it was a good day to get'em in the garage to freeze.

Apparently he thought it was cold enough in the kitchen for those
ear muffs

Then after some movies,a long nap and 17 more inches of snow, we made our Christmas cookies. If you recall, last year's endeavor was a disaster.

This year, with our new oven and our good cookie sheets we got the job done

even though some couldn't help sampling the decorations

The kids counted 96 cookies total, and so far we've made a pretty good dent in them!

However, since then we've had four more inches during the week with 5 more in the forecast for this Tuesday. Me thinks we're going to run out of cookies.

Stay Tuned.....

...for another post soon. Back to work for only a week and I feel like I'm months behind at home! We're right in the middle of a pretty hefty blizzard right now so it's been easy to play catch up this weekend. In the mean time, here's a glimpse of the Lil' Lady during her first experience at daycare. Today marks four months home. Geesh, where did the time go?

Keep in mind, we've not met other children our age before!