Limbo Champ

Every month the school has a skate night. We try to go whenever possible because the kids love it so much. They have open skate & do a few games & races through out the night. This month Eli decided to participate in the Limbo game. As it turns out he won. We were all very excited. Adrienne also won a t-shirt from the skating rink so we had a car full of winners on the way home that night!

Christmas Morning

Jingle, jingle, jingle. Ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas!

Santa came to our house & dropped off a few things for the kids. When he left he woke up the kids with his jingle bells & his "Ho, ho, ho"-ing. They came downstairs cautiously & woke us up whispering, "Santa was here and there are things in our stockings!" Too cute. They got to open the Santa gifts right away. After breakfast we sang Happy Birthday to Jesus and then opened up the rest of our gifts.

Opening gifts.

Now I can read in the tub!

Eli bought us all gifts with his own money by himself at school & had fun handing them out. He bought Adrienne a toy car in purple (because there were no pink ones), Tony got a tape measure & I got a very pretty necklace.

The kids with their loot.

Trying out their new skates. Makes me want to get some of my own!

Rollerskating & other odds & ends

Our little tree.


One of the fun things the kids got to do with Nana before she left was to go rollerskating for the first time. It was a noisy night with the kids from Eli's school filling the roller rink.

Nana helping Eli with his laces.


Once we got everyone laced up they were not quite sure what to do.



So....we started out on the carpet.



Adrienne divided her time between the carpet & the bounce house they had for younger children. She did very well on the carpet though & now wants her own skates.



Eli got brave enough to go out on the floor. I helped him quite a bit at first but he soon got the hang of keeping his balance on the slick floor.

We're not ready to go out & race anyone yet but it's highly likely that we'll go to the next skate night his school offers.

Here's Nana with Mike B. Our soon to be too famous for us friend!

Frost on the leaves in the morning just starting to melt.