Judson's Christmas Program

Since Judson is in one of the 3's classes at SCP, he got to perform in the little Christmas program this year.  Each class sang one song onstage, and his class's song was "Christmas Makes Me Smile." in the song, they went through a whole list of "Christmas makes me________ (smile, laugh, sing, dance, etc)   It was really cute seeing them perform the different actions to go with the lyrics and so precious to hear the kids' sweet voices and see their cute expressions. After the show, we got to join Judson in his classroom for a cookie reception and open house time.

Christmas makes me sing! La, la, la ,la

Christmas makes me laugh! Ha, ha, ha!

Not sure what part this was

Christmas makes me smile!

Just singing away!

Avery had rehearsal for her voice recital on this same night, so she wasn't able to come with us.

Kendall and Judson enjoying some cookies at his table.

Judson's "favorites" poster that I made for him at the beginning of the year and his artwork spot .

Battle of the Books, Birthdays, and More

Avery's "Battle of the Books" team- Kaylee, Avery, Kylee, Adelyn, Ari, and Maelyn

This year Avery got to participate with other 3rd, 4th and 5th graders in a school competition called "Battle of the Books."  From September until the day of the competition in December, students read as many of the 10 books off the selected reading list as they could, and then formed teams and competed against one another to answer questions about the books.  Avery's team didn't make it past the first round of the competition, but I was so proud of her for reading 9 1/2 of the 10 books off the list in 3 months time.  Several of the books were 200-300 pages and her favorite was 500+ pages!  I thought that was awesome for a 3rd grader and I think it really opened her eyes to the world of books!

Since we finally purchased some fireplace tools last year after Christmas, we were able to enjoy our first fire in the fireplace this December.  Even better was the fact that we bought our firewood from a teenage boy from church who was chopping it and selling it to raise money for a mission trip.  I walked into the room one night after cleaning the kitchen to find them all like this:)

Avery's good friend Ella had a pizza-and-a-movie birthday party with a small group of girls from school.  Jenny and Par set up a huge screen for them to watch their movie on.  It was a big hit!

Over the past two years Avery has gone to quite a few parties at Skatetown and has really improved at skating.  This was her friend Makenna's 9th birthday.

 Doing the chicken dance out on the floor. Flap those wings!