Monday, December 28, 2009

December in Pictures

Mostly pictures because I'm on Christmas break now and thoroughly enjoying some down time! December was a whirlwind on dance recitals, 3 piano recitals, concerts, parties, family activities, Taisha's birthday, shopping, cooking, eating, and all the other things that make December December! Christmas was a huge success except for the whole "Santa got McKay and Taisha a DS, but somehow forgot to get one for Anaya... and that was a big mistake.... especially because she seemed to be suffering from holiday bipolar syndrome (that's when you are super hyper/happy OR on the floor have a tantrum.... no in between) and had her heart set on a DS, blah blah blah..."

(Christmas dance recital)

(Taisha turned 11!)

(McKay as "Joseph")

(Joseph and Mary, and yes, I am aware that baby Jesus was a roll of paper towels with a face drawn on.... we kind of forgot about a baby, and had to improvise!)

(Angels-they were playing "rock, paper, scissors" through the nativity story!)

(Copper pipe chimes on Christmas Eve)

(The pinata was a pink flamingo!)

(Malia broke it open this year!)

Thursday, December 10, 2009

November 2009

Thanksgiving break was the perfect amount of:

food (perfect = LOTS), and family.....

shopping (here's the coolest Salvation Army bell ringers EVER.... at least according to Rik!)



and family projects...

(Try to guess where Rik's last business trip was to!)

And now we are all ready and excited for Christmas!!

(Notice that Anaya got her way after months of Naya-nagging, and now has bangs! And I love that the headband makes her ears stick out!)