Photo Shoot - Family

Here are our 2009 Pictures.... I was very pleased with how they turned out! Our photographer, Emily, was so great! Check her out at The Preservation Ventures - she does great work! Enjoy!

Christmas in our Home!

Here are some images from our Christmas season so far... candy making for the neighbors, decorating for Christmas, Christmas books... Love, love, love this season!

Tinker Toy Fun!

Ellie and Josiah love Tinker Toys. They amaze us by what they are able to build and do with them.

Gingerbread House Party

Elliana's cousin, Hannah, (and her mommy, Leanna!) hosted a Gingerbread House Party and we had a great time. Here are some pictures from the fun event...

Decorating Cookies with Friends

We had a great time at our friends' house for a cookie decorating party. Here are a few pictures...

Decorating Cookies at MiMi's House

We had a fun morning decorating cookies and trying to "help" with Mimi's Christmas tree. Later, we found Josiah eating the sprinkles off the table... then both kids joined in. Ellie was very excited about Mimi's "contivity" (nativity) scene. Christmas is such a fun time of the year!

SNOW!!

We were thrilled that we had SNOW a few weeks ago!!! It didn't last long, but was beautiful while it was here. The kids absolutely loved it... the the "big kids" did too! :)

L- L- Leaf

The leaf unit was also so much fun! We enjoyed learning about the letter L, reading about leaves, going on "leaf hunts", pressing leaves, leaf runnings, tracing leaves, making a crushed leaf picture... so many fun things to do with leaves. Of course, Josiah was close by in the pack-n-play or high chair listening in on things. This week, however, he managed to get out of his pack-n-play. What a sad, sad day!! :) Things will be much more exciting now that I can't put him in there. Ellie loved our leaf unit and we're excited about the next one already.

Thanksgiving Day

Playing in the Leaves

Granna and Papaw were having a leaf-raking day and asked the kids to come over to "help!" They had a blast and Papaw got some good pictures of them!

M- M- Moon

The Moon unit was one of our favortites! We learned all about the solar system and the letter M.... and I had to remember that Pluto is no longer a planet! :) We were able to rent a few videos about the moon from the library, and so we watched "Little Bear Goes to the Moon" and wore our "space helmets" for that. We made "telescopes" our of paper towel tubes, we looked at the moon every night, Ellie got a solar system placemat to help learn the planet's names, we had moon-shaped pumpkin pancakes and put "craters" (choc.chips)in them, we made a moon picture, and we were planning a trip to the UTC observatory but on the day we could go it was rainy and cloudy. This unit was a lot of fun and we'll be talking about the moon all year long now! God's creation is so amazing.