It has been way too long

It is amazing how fast the last 5 months have gone by.  I should be blogging more often.  One day I will be grateful for this record of our lives, even if it isn’t very frequent.

One of the best ways for me to go back and remember what has happened over the past 5 months is to go back and look at the pictures that we have taken.  So it may be a little picture heavy at times. So here it goes.

When I went back to the blog just now I realized I didn’t even blog about Christmas.  There is a Christmas letter but nothing beyond that.  So I guess we get to go all the way back to Christmas. Here are a few highlights.

This is our finished decorated tree with the girls.  We love to put all kinds of ornaments on the tree.  Some of my favorites are the many handmade ornaments that the kids have made over the years at school.

We got to enjoy, once again, a preschool Christmas program.  I have loved having Courtney in Mrs. Norton’s Busy Bee preschool.  She has done an amazing job with all of our girls over the years.  They now all have a shirt with their handprint made into a reindeer that we will treasure. Courtney also got to dress as an angel for the nativity part of the program. Too cute!

Christmas is such a fun busy time.  I hope that we are making treasured memories for our girls that they will take with them in life.  I also hope that some of the traditions that we are establishing now will stick with them forever and that they can understand the true meaning of Christmas, Christ.

Christmas Eve day was spent in Pomerene with the Barney/Edington Families.  That is always fun.  Mexican food and a Christmas program put on by the kids.  This is a tradition from when I was a child.  We now try to go every other year with our kids.  After that it was home for our own Christmas Eve traditions.  More Mexican food, new pajamas, the Christmas story and following the star to find baby Jesus in a manger in front of the tree.  Following the star has become one of my favorite Christmas traditions we have started with our kids.  I look forward to it every year.  I once thought of replacing our star because it seemed a little big for our tree.  I decided against it specifically because of our following the star tradition.  It just wouldn’t be the same.

January brought a new year and truthfully not one picture taken.  How sad is that. 

Kelsi played basketball this year at school.  They have a league within the school.  Fourth, fifth and sixth graders make up several teams that play against each other.  This was an exciting time for me.  I loved playing basketball in school so it was so much fun to watch her.  She really enjoyed it and even asked for a basketball for her birthday. I look forward to watching her play next year. 

Here are a few highlights from February. Courtney in a box.  She had fun playing in this box.  She wanted me to tell sisters to come see so she could pop out and surprise them.   You may notice the IPod in her hand.  That was one of the gifts the girls each got for Christmas.  They have been thoroughly enjoyed over the past few months and mom actually got to have hers back.

 Shaylee and Kelsi with their IPods.

 

 

   Another fun thing Courtney got to do because of preschool was learning about the letter x by having a treasure hunt at school and one at home.  Her teacher sent her home with a treasure chest, a book wrapped with an x on it, an eye patch and some clues.  We all had a blast helping her find her treasure.

 

March is worthy of a blog entry of it’s own so to break it up a bit that is what I am going to do.