Fun with Nana

Out to Breakfast

Glow golf

The Lewis and Clark trail "experience"

meet Marian "Jane"

Magic House

Magnetic Fishing

We have been waiting forever to do this with Abby's hair!! It is so long and is easily frizzed. It was as tall as the lights!! This is the magnetic ball at the Magic house!

Jonah's School work

Ok, this is funny. I am going through Jonah's seat work that came home... check out the illustration on the bottom. Haa!! You can tell the wheels in his head were turning when he was writing. Somehow I think this is how it "went down" in his head. His writing for a 6 year old is amazing!!!

My New Hat

It is rare for me to find a great hat. So, here are my self portraits in my new favorite hat. It is definately my "winter" hat, but I am loving it. Plus I wanted to play around with a light idea. The background is a white background with light from behind coming in from a window. I thought it turned out pretty cool.

RA racers!

Each year the RA's (Royal Ambassadors http://www.royalambassadors.org/) have a car race. Jonah helped design his car and painted it himself!!! DAddy helped him put the weights on the car. Jonah got 3rd place and his first trophy! Way to go Jonah!!!!

Christmas Lights

You have to check this out. It is a neighbors house...
http://mywinterwonderland.com/

Check out the videos.

Christmas!

Hot Gingerbread cookies

We had a great Christmas! Nice and quiet! Dad came up from TN to share Christmas eve and Christmas day! We had a wonderful time! Merry Christmas everyone!

Journey to Bethlehem

We went to the Journey to Bethlehem at a local church. It was a blast. Abby just wanted to hold the baby Jesus! We all got new names and were put in a tribe. We than watched a play and than went outside (in the freezing cold) and started our Journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem. You meet Roman soldiers, kids with animals, hear the scriptures by the priests... dance, go to the market, try to find a room to stay in and see the baby Jesus. Check it out!!! http://www.journeytobethlehem.com/287543.ihtml We had a great time! Auntie Shannon went with us too!

I forgot to post the one of me dancing with the people in the tent! Shannon snapped the picture. I will post it... maybe...

Can you see me?!! You should have been there getting your dance on too! ;) Too bad I didn't have one of the tamborines... maybe next year.

Christmas Portraits

What a great, but very cold day we had taking our Christmas pictures. It is just the kids because it is not about us parents anyway. ;) Abby kept saying she looked like an "American Doll". We were so cold! But we did get to ride in the horse carriages when we were done. As you can tell noses and hands were cold, but we got it done pretty quickly after people kept inturrupting us Not that the kids aren't the cutest things, but we were cold! They did SO well. Merry Christmas everyone!

Happy Late and meatlessThanksgiving

Happy late Thankgiving to all of you! We at the Castruccio house decorate for Christmas on Thanksgiving weekend. James put up the lights and got the tree up for us to decorate. He decided our other tree was too small for the living room and so he bought a 12 footer. Since we only had decorations for a tree half the size, I ran out of ornaments 2 times!! Goodness! So off Abby and I went to get more. It still looks kinda sparse upclose, but still is pretty. James and the neighbors went together to get a lift to put up Christmas lights on the houses. I think there are already plans for next years lights... oh boy! ;)
We had a great and quiet Thanksgiving. Although meatless, it was still good. We shared it with Shannon and had a good time! So here's the story. The 10 pound-thawed turkey took over 5 hours to cook! So we ate everything, including pie, and finally the turkey was done. What in the world!! It has been good leftovers... but are the technically leftovers if you never had it in the beginning??!!!

Snow!

Our first snow of the season yesterday! Yea!!