Loot!!!

Trent got a new robe for Christmas (among numerous other things!)
Jared wanted a flight simulator
Byron hoped he'd get a Corvette game!
Chloe loves to snuggle on anything soft! Right now it's Trent's robe!
Byron was so thrilled to gift us his gift he made in Kindergarten! They painted their foot and 2 hands, and put them on a piece of burlap, then made a "reindeer" out of it. I was in the classroom that day they were painting the hand/footprints, and Byron's were by far the biggest! No surprise there, eh?

And they're gone......

Lauren and Sandy have moved....it is hard to believe that they are gone. They've moved far enough away that we'll probably only see them once or twice a year now. Here the kids are by the for sale sign.

Riley enjoying being up on top of the air mattresses stacked by the window.

Gingerbread houses

Jared and Byron got to build gingerbread houses in school this year. Jared's class built "grinch" houses...in other words, green frosting, and made to look as awful as possible! I think they had way more fun than the times they've had to make them as pretty as possible ! It was interesting, though, that most of the girls in the class still tried to make as neat of houses as they could! But the boys had a great time making a wreck of a house!

This is Byron's gingerbread house. It barely survived a minute in the house (well, just long enough for a picture) before being eaten!

Nutcracker Ballet

Jared and I got to go to the Nutcracker Ballet w/ his third grade class. The first four rows were reserved for all the 3rd graders in his school. It was so fun to go there and have such super good seats!

Good-bye potluck

Lauren and Sandy are moving away! We had a potluck for them at our house after union meeting. We will miss them!!!!