Entertainment by James

Charge like the hippos (on Diego).

  (We had to teach him to give us a warning.)

I have no idea where he learned this one.

Happy New Year!

Quelf . . . 

UNO at Grandma and Grandpa maughan's new house.

Christmas is Love

We had a wonderful Christmas season this year.  I made an advent calendar that counted down with activities to do each day that reminded us of the Savior.  All the ideas came from old Friends on lds.org.  I just picked ones we could do without much advance planning.  One of them was what does Christmas mean to you.  I decided Christmas is Love, the love of Our Father who sent His Only Begotten Son to earth, the love of the Son who was willing to come and suffer for us, the love of our family as we make gifts for each 

other and the love for all as we share what we have with others.

  

 Sharing the love.

 Slippers by James (ie mom)

 Ear warmers by Clara

 Lea's excitement

James look of amazement.

Christmas Eve

 James added a little variety to our Christmas Eve pageant this year.  He was a sword fighting, pirate shepherd.  He pulled his hat over one eye and is "Heave Hoe"ing with his belt.

Marianne decided to join him and wear her shepherd outfit pirate style.

Christmas concerts

Clara's honor choir concert.

 Clara's 4th grade Western Christmas Musical

 Emma's Concert Choir Solo, My grown-up Christmas Wish.  After I thought, why didn't I take a video??

 Emma's show choir

Marianne's band concert.  Somehow I couldn't find a picture of her choir concert :(