Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve Frank always reads the kids the night before Christmas. They love to have Dad read to them!

Santa made it safely to Metlakatla. Cort got the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars. He was so excited that is all he played with all day. Grace got lots of dress up clothes, she was giving this dress the dance test. It passed!

I hope your day was full of family, friends and lots of good food.

Getting Cookies Ready for Santa!

When Santa stopped at school last Friday, he told the kids that his favorite cookie was Choc. Chip. Cort was all worried, we did not make any choc. chip cookies. So, today Cort helped me get some cookies made for Santa. He was such a great helper and he even let me get some pictures.

Santa Is Everywhere!

I went down to the school this morning and just beat Santa there. I was there long enough to see Cort sitting quietly and working! I did not know he could work so quiet.

Cort was so excited to tell Santa about all of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones things he wanted for Christmas.

Cort and his friend are comparing their bags. They were all so cute! Every time I tried to get a good picture of Cort's face he would give me a goofy look (little stinker). I just need to be really sneaky to get a good picture of Cort:)

Party At Head Start!

This is Grace's Teacher Anita, she is wonderful!

Santa stopped by the school today to let the kids know that so far they were all on the "good list". While he was there he gave them little stockings with goodies in them. Grace was checking him out to make sure that he was really Santa. I think she was a little confused, he had a black mustache and then a white fake beard. When the day was over she did not say anything on the way home. Kids are sure cute about those things:)

They did a toy exchange at school, Grace was happy with her Dora Bingo game! I am so glad to have her home for Christmas Break! Cort's last day is tomorrow, hopefully I will have pictures of his party tomorrow. I am looking forward to the 2 weeks of having the kids home. I am sure that I will be glad to have school start back when the holidays are over.

1st Christmas Concert!

Last night was the kids first Christmas concert. They did great! The concert only lasted about 45 min. I hope it is like that every year. The music teacher combined grades for the songs, Great idea! Isabel and Grace were so excited to see each other when we got to the school.

Here are the boys of Mrs. Dodge's Kindergarten class. They were in there prep room, before the concert. Notice how Cort's red plaid shirt is tucked nicely into his tan pants, well when he walked out on stage 15 min. later it was totally un-tucked. I was glad that to see he was in the back row, no one could tell he was un-tucked while they were singing.

Here Grace and most of the girls in her class waiting for their turn to go and sing.

Dancing with Daddy

Tonight Grace was suppose to be cleaning her room and getting ready for bed. When low and behold she comes out to the living room all dressed for dancing.

She was able to talk Dad into dancing with her. They love practicing their dancing any time they get the chance.

Santa!

Santa made to Metlakatla to check up on the kids. He had to take a black hawk to get her, but you know Santa he does what he needs to.

Christmas Pictures

Tonight we did the family Christmas pictures. We did manage to get at least on good one for the Christmas letter.

We even managed to get a picture with the animals. Cort thought we would need to do another Christmas picture after he got his lizard.

Look at that they really do love each other, at least for the time being.

Oh, Christmas Tree!

Cort put about 3 ornaments on the tree then he was done. At least I was able to get a nice picture of the little boy who does not like getting his picture taken.

Well, the cat's bed has gone to the dog! Annabel is so funny, she likes to take a toy and lounge on the bed while chewing on it. I like to think she likes the bed so much because it smells like Lucy(and she loves Lucy so much). If you look really close you can see Annabel's little eye. She is sticking her tongue out, silly dog.