Christmas Pictures!!!

Since the last post we've been pretty busy, and that's only a taste of what is to come! This weekend we have 5 Christmas parties, so I'm sure my post next week will be chock full of pictures!

This past week we went to our final art class for this semester with my friend Barbie. The girls did a great job making their Christmas pictures. The art lesson focused on how shapes are used in art, so they made snowmen for circles and Christmas trees for triangles.

Lily's work...

Zora's work...

Last year we started a tradition of making homemade ornaments. Originally, my plan was to make the same kind of ornaments every year, but this year we decided to do things a little differently. We made shrinky dink ornaments!!! Talk about having a blast from the past! If you don't know what shrinky dinks are, you are missing out! We made them with our playgroup friends and then we came home to make more to give away to family!

Here's one of Lily's...

...and one of Zora's

We also took a tour of a veterinarian clinic on Friday with our homeschool group. We had a great time seeing the animals, touring the buildings, and speaking with the vet. I forgot my camera, though, so no pictures of that one!

This past Saturday we had BIG plans to go see Curious George. My friend's mom (thank you, Beverly!!!) gave us tickets, so the girls were pumped to go to the show. However, Zora came into my room very early (2am) Saturday morning complaining of a stomach ache and sure enough she was too sick for us to go :-( We spent the day beside the toilet instead of at Curious George. Fortunately, I found someone else who was able to make good use of the tickets and even graciously took Lily so that she wouldn't have to miss it (thank you, Amanda!!!)

This week has been so cold that we've just stayed close to home and enjoyed relaxing in our pj's while we do our schoolwork. We've ventured out a little to finish up our Christmas shopping and to take some Christmas pictures.

Our church decorates so beautifully this time of year, so it's a tradition for us to take our pictures there in the sanctuary. Normally, we have the Voss family here to take our pictures for us, but since they moved half-way across the country we had to go solo this time! We were a little nervous about getting decent pictures using the timer on our camera, but I think they turned out very well!










Stay warm out there and enjoy The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!!!