Snow Day (Ice pelt day)

We woke up to snow on the ground today - the first snow of the season.  We went out right after breakfast at 8:00.  The it was icing out and cold enough that we couldn't even make snow balls.  So, we only stayed out for a little bit.  We were going to get a day of school in, mom was joking we don't even remember how to do a full day of school. :)  So we started school - and noticed that the ice was falling faster - maybe wetter.  So after 2 subjects - we bundled up and went out again.  We had snowball fights, and made a snowman and just fooled around for a while.  It was icing on us the whole time, but we didn't mind.

It's beginning o look a lot like Christmas - but we'll loose it all tomorrow. :(

Love,
The snow buddies

Christmas I & II

We had a wonderful Christmas Eve.  It was a 68 degree day.  We enjoyed the company of our friends the Hornback's - now it's tradition - 2 years in a row.   Then off to church for the Christmas Eve service.  It was wonderful, we sung many carols, and heard the Bible read in many languages from the pastor & people in the congregation.  Then we went back home to enjoy some more Egg Nog and cookies, and our Advent story before bed.  Christmas morning Adley was up at 6:33 followed shortly by Dad, Nathanael was up about 6:45 followed shortly by mom, then Jeremiah in the next 5 minutes.
We opened our presents and enjoyed playing for the morning.  We drove to Grandma & Grandpa's.  The weather was still nice and spend much of the afternoon outside with our cousins the Parsons.  We got to see baby Corbin, who's only 2 months old.  We opened more presents that afternoon, and played all day with our cousins.  We had a one night sleep over and got to play even more.  Cousin Jayden and Owen came over for the second afternoon, it was wonderful to play with them.  We were in the car 7:30pm to head home.
What a wonderful Christmas!

Love,
The Christmas buddies

Merry Christmas Eve!

Wow, this Advent season has flown by, and we've done tons of things.
We had a hot dog & marshmallow campfire lunch Saturday the 12th.

We went to Mechanic Hall in Worcester MA to see a choir sing and they played on the HUGE pipe organ.
http://www.mechanicshall.org/eventbooking/hook.html

We got a 3 3-D Advent books from a friend.

We went to the Museam of Science and saw a 4-D movie - the Polar Express.

We made cookies at Ma Taunte Andrea's on the 23rd.

So many fun things - Merry Christmas Every One!!

Love,

The Christmas Buddies

Another fish!!

Yes, we have another fish in the family.  The yellow one is Strawberry Lemonade.  Kubal Jr. died last week, and poor fishy guy got so mad he started biting the back fin of Candy-corn (you can see the top of his back fin is a bit missing.)  So we got a new fish to fix his friendship problem, and so far things are working great.  Everyone is swimming and playing again.  And the new guy swims so fast - it was hard to take a good picture of him.

Love,
The fish guys

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Friday we had our Co-Op Christmas party.  So much fun and yummy food.  On Saturday we experience the Journey to Bethlehem at a neighboring church.  We traveled the long journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem for the Roman census. We went with our friends.

Today we played some soccer with no shirts in the freshly put up ice rink walls.  Then we went to get a tree, hung our new wreath from Ma Taunt Lou.  It's so beautiful.

We even decorated a little tree in the front yard.

Merry Christmas!
The Christmas buddies