Brace Face

Siena got braces today. It should be an interesting two years considering all the things they told her not to eat.

Preschool Fun

Spencer had a special visit from his preschool friend. His name is Freddy the Frog and he got to spend the weekend with us. They had lots of fun. They rode in the car, went grocery shopping, played the PS3, watched movies, and had a sleepover.

His preschool class also went on a fieldtrip to the AZ Puppet Theater. We saw Cinderella and got a special behind the scenes tour of how it all works. It was quite fun!

Girls night out

For Christmas "we" gave "me" tickets to see the "Mary Poppins" Broadway touring show at the Gammage. It was Super! -califragilisticexpialidocious! Siena and I had a marvelous time even though someone almost ran us off the road on the way there, our dinner was only edible, we had to run to get to the show on time, and it took us about an hour to get out of the parking garage after the show.

Scenes of Christmas

Lily got a "Power Link" for Christmas. You can plug into it which allows her to use her switch to turn things on and off. She also enjoyed helping make banana bread by operating the mixer.

December activities

Lily's yearly Christmas party hosted by the Kiwanis Club is always a fun event. It is always exciting to see Santa.

Spencer couldn't believe that Santa remembered him. He was shocked when Santa gave him a hug and said hello.

Spencer's preschool party was lots of fun and will probably never be topped. They decorated sugar cookies, an ornament, a stocking, made a gingerbread house and reindeer food, read Christmas stories, sang carols, and exchanged presents. All in 2 hours and 45 minutes and I am probably leaving out a few things.

We stayed pretty busy during the holiday season, of course. Who doesn't?
Siena wanted to make sure we didn't just sit around at home and waste her days off from school.

So we did some fun things at home and then we went to the movies, shopping, and on a few field trips of our own.

We hopped on Donner and Rudolf and took a ride to the North Pole.

Made sugar cookies.

Decorated a gingerbread house.

We went to the Chinese Cultural Center and bought unfamiliar food items like soda pop with a marble inside the bottle, seaweed soup, juice(box) triangles, and lots of yummy treats with sporting pandas printed on the outside of the cookies. There were many things I really didn't want to try like all their fishy products.

Photo shoot

Beautiful, eh? But can you imagine how much better they would look if I had a decent camera. This is from our point and shoot. One day I want a good camera!

Preschool Fieldtrip

Before heading off to TX for Thanksgiving, Spencer had a fieldtrip to Cabellas. He had such a great time going on a scavenger hunt around the store looking for all kinds of animals from around the globe. Here is a picture of him with his class in front of the African savannah.
It's a good thing he got to practice his sharp shooting skills. That way he was prepared to do lots of target shooting in TX.

Look at the size of those fish the kids caught!

I loved his headdress and war paint. When we got home he wanted to put on even more. What a fierce warrior.