December Recap

 The month of December flew by so fast with Holiday parties, finals, new calling, and Christmas.  So here's a recap of some of the things we did in the month of December. This year the kids had a say in what ornament that represent what their interest were for the year 2011...Ike and Nate were legos...so the built a mini starwars lego ships and hung it on the tree and as for Mya it was Tinkerbell.

 The Ward Christmas party which The Young Men and Young Women Presidency was in charge.(which means for those who don't know Blake is the Young Men President) They did a great job..( I didn't get too many photos because I was helping in the kitchen) here are some photos of the kids in their performance in the program.

 Mya was Star Student in her class this month which means she get to keep the class mascot monkey for a week and write about their adventures...She named the monkey Izzy.

 Also these are the treats she asked to be made for her class at the end of her week.

 

 As I made these treats, I decided to make Cinnamon Honey Butter for friends for Christmas.

 

 Finished my first college quarter and took 18 credits , which I'll never do again but my GPA 3.8 and I got a new calling as the 1st counselor in the Relief Society Presidency. Also had a BLAST at my annual Hula Christmas Party....so grateful to be in a troupe with wonderful women who have become my dear friends.

 

Mya lost her two front teeth...isn't she cute!!!

 The kids had a great time building their gingerbread house out of graham crackers

Finished product....as you can see the one in the middle was in honor of Angry Birds.

 

Ike has great time tapping in his creative mind to build a city out of paper nets building 3d shapes and this photo below isn't the finish product!

Christmas Eve: Mya waiting so patiently to open her one gift on this night

New Christmas pjs

Now for the kids Christmas letters  to Santa with cookies and milk

Christmas Morning: So for once I woke up early at 6am and had to wait until the kid woke up which meant I woke them up at 7:45 because I couldn't wait anymore.

  

Santa Came!!!!

 The kids were so excited!!!

 The kids especially loved the hat their aunt Tify send.

 

 The kids with their Christmas Loot!!!

 The whole family are having fun with our new xbox especially Blake

 

 My little sister came down to visit us for her Christmas break

 We had a big Hula show in honor of our Kumu(teacher) for her 50th Birthday!

Decorating for the Season

I love December....decorating the house for the season is my favorite thing do....here is some of photos of us getting in the spirit.

Love this season

Too Much To Do and So Little Time

Last couple of  months has been so busy  for me with school fund raising projects, theme baskets,school concert, school western dance, basketball, church calling, cub scouts, boy scouts, hula, making a earring holding and volunteering,  ...that I been swamped....But here are some photos of some of the  few things that kept us busy.

 The School Family Western Dance...we had a good time..I especially had a good time dancing away in the kitchen with two other moms and serving ice cream floats.

 This is one the art project that I was in charge of...thank goodness I know a talented friend, who built this for me. I white washed it in blue paint and had the kids  in Isaac's class write their name and a one word description of  themselves...then I burned their words in the wood.

 Here is Isaac's class with the garden bench...they were so excited to see their work burned into the wood.

 This art project I did for Nathan's class...I had the kids and teacher draw a picture of a favorite spot in Spokane ...then I found a program that let me created this collage after scanning each drawing into my computer.

 The finish project...pretty neat!

 I was surprise to see my Isaac rocking away on marimba.

 Basketball season was pretty sweet especially since it was indoors and it was just for one child...he had a great season.

 Mya decided it was time to do Hula and we been having a great time!

 The Scouting program has been a great thing in my boys life and grateful to be part of it.

 This the one project that I have been itching to do...a earring holder and I finally did!!!

I also stopped to enjoy the beautiful sunset that Heavenly Father has provide for us.