Wednesday, November 28

In the subdivision

The kids and I were out decorating the house for Christmas and as we were cleaning up, here comes trotting down the street...horses.  We see them all the time driving our our neigborhood with chickens, donkeys, llamas, roosters, but never in the subdivision.  It was cool!



Christmas Time

Since Noni and Papa were here for Thanksgiving, we decided to celebrate Christmas too.  The kids are opening up their gifts...presonalized tooth pillows, dvd's and doctor playset.  They are so adorable.
We also got a family iPad...LOVE IT!


Teacher's Helper

When Noni comes into town the kids love her to stand in as the teacher.

Hayride

Mark took the kids and Noni on a hayride to the playground.



Twister Anyone?


Below, Tony was Twisted out and is underneath Alex and Noni.

Aliana held on pretty long.


Too Much Fun

We introduced Noni and Papa to the trampoline.  They surprisingly had a lot of fun.
She's just being goofy! Nothings wrong with Noni.
 

Here comes Papa.

Now Daddy needs to join in the fun.

Papa is popping daddy as he embraces Aliana for safety.
Then it was Tony's turn to get held down as papa popped them.





Homeschool Adventures

Ballerina Aliana

This girl loves her papa. 
She would disappear for about 10 minutes and arrive in princess attire (head to toe) and say to papa in an elevated voice (princess voice), "Do you like my dress?"
This time she said to him, "Papa watch me dance!" and then after that she invites him to dance with her.  Precious!!!
She may have a future in dancing.  She can really feel the music and just moves (side note: she's hasn't taken any lessons.)
 

Thursday, November 15

Nice!

Beautiful Sunset!

Wedding Updates

There are a few pictures that are strolling in from the Grbac wedding.
Going to the limosine
 
Family Photo before the wedding.
 

Homeschool Adventures

Tuesday, November 6

Alex's Read Aloud

We just got this book through Alex's school and it's so cute.  The title is "Fly Guy".  This was his first time reading it and he did so great.  Tony even chimes in to help out.
 Oh yeah, Tony's a SWAT guy, Alex is a Dragon and Aliana is a Cowgirl for the day.

Trunk or Treat at chruch

Here are our halloweeners.
Here we have on the left is Tony, who is batman and doesn't want to wear this mask, but is still happy.
Next we have Aliana in the middle, our beautiful bride where she would refer to herself as "the groom" ;-)
Last on the right is Alex, who is superman with red hair.
Have fun guys!
 
All the trunks at church were decorated and the owners dressed up themselves too.
I really liked this type of trick or treating.

 
On their way up the bounce slide.
We'll see if Aliana can keep her dress intact and not rip it or have it fly over her face when coming down the slide.
 
There they go.
 
This was a cool activity.  It was a bounce house obstacle course.
 
She was the only one that I could capture.  The boys were too quick for me.
 
And then to top off the night, they had their first, yes first, cotton candy.
Aliana and Alex loved it.  Tony cried; he hated it.  Hated the look, the texture and then how quickly it melted on his tongue.  It was actually funny.  It also felt very ironic that we were forcing him to eat it trying to make him conquer his fear of it.
Does the look say it all?

Halloween Party at PRCA

Alex had a Halloween party at his school (PRCA).  It was also a special day that is called "Crazy Hair Day".  That's why he's sporting red hair or I guess a red scalp.
 
They started out their party with a pumpkin story then on to a pumpkin craft.

 
Yep, very red. 
Which came off if you touched his head.
 
After crafts he went on to decorate sugar cookies that I made for them.


 
He's saying cheese with his scheese at snack time ;-)
Homeschool Adventures has been updated with some fall crafts.
 
(click on the underlined link)

Pumpkin Carving

Gotta love the handy tools when carving the pumpkin.
Mark's using the electric saw...haha.
 
We even carved the tiny pumpkins for them.
 
Look at those perfect little circles ;-)
(drill)


 
Scary faces for their scary pumpkins.
 
Angels!

Scary!