Jelly Belly

The final week of vacation we packed up and drove to Fairfield. After passing the giant windmills and viewing the beautiful sheep filled pastures we made it. We only heard, "Are we there yet?" about 100 times. We took a tour and shopped with Grammy, Grandpa, and Grandma Jo in tow. We stopped at In N Out to refuel for the drive home and drove back. I highly recommend the 3 hour trip for those who have the time and patience. Quite a great day.

Christmas

We had a relaxing Christmas with many days completely unplanned. I wanted to spend time enjoying the kids at home and also allow Bryan to recover from surgery... BTW- all is going well with him. We had a quiet Christmas morning with our family, my grandma and parents. The kids played together and even let us sleep in.

AWANA Grand Prix

The kids had their Grand Prix a few weeks ago. They worked on painting their cars. Bryan was teaching, so I didn't take a lot of pictures. Q even won 1st in the Cubbies race.

Trade Fair

Avery's class participated in a Trade Fair last week. They were asked to make at least fie items to trade with other students. They had to use only things from home, nothing newly bought. Avery did her paper twirling. She traded for a cotton ball snowman, an amazing wooden box, 2 leather ropes, a leather wallet, a tissue paper flower. It was a great lesson for the kids to learn how Indians traded long ago.

Q's pledge

Holey Lobes, Batman!

Yesterday as an early birthday present, Avery was surprised with getting her ears pierced. She desperately wanted to after she and her friends began a club for those who "really, really want to get their ears pierced or already have them done". She was so brave. I know one picture is super blurry,but they did it so fast I couldn't get the focus on her.