Another Christmas Eve, another Christmas Play. This time Uncle Chris was the narrator and Emily was once again the director. Everyone did their part beautifully and we even had a REAL baby Jesus this year - DEAN! He was so good and happy for the entire production. Make sure you click on the photos to see the Wise Guys.....I mean Wise Men in their shades! (Cannon was also entertaining with his rendition of "shephard blowing his nose!")
Thanks to Dr. Robison (of Robison Orthodontics - located at Ray and the Loop 202. Fun office, wonderful people...they can take care of any of your orthodontic needs. Just tell them Nicole Stock sent you!) we had snow in Gilbert! Dr. Robison has two equally fun parties each year. All of his patients and their friends are invited. One is a swim party and pizza dinner held each summer and then the snow party with breakfast and Santa in December. Colton invited Mitch, Asher invited Alex, and Kyler - well, he's a handful on his own! We also had Jean-Jacques join us with Michael, Sofia, Sariah, Jean-Jacques II, Ruslan and Joseph. The kids loved the slide down into the snow, all the muffins, cinnamon rolls, cookies and hot chocolate you could handle AND SANTA! Four of Jean-Jacques' kids had photos with him, of course, none of my boys would!
Asher has earned his purple belt! One more belt and he's half way to BLACK BELT!!! I'm always so impressed with how well he performs at testing. He works hard, but he also studies his manuals and can answer any question that Grand Master Hong asks him. He was also awarded a medal for excellent work at the studio this year. Go Asher!
Gotta love Build-a-Bear! Kyler has had Build-a-Bear come to his preschool for the last two years for an "in-class" field trip. Last year he made his black bear named "Pill". This year - BEHOLD, THE CHRISTMOOSE! (the lights on his antlers even light up!)
Fourth grade brings about many changes....one of them - you may join a Mallet Club! Asher was very excited to be the first in the family to join Mallet Club. They had a winter concert on December 18th with the choir. It's no surprise that our performing Asher did well! Kyler of course wanted to know what we were going to do. I told him that we were going to watch Asher play the xylophone. Asher quickly corrected me..."I don't play the xylophone, Mom! I play the Alto Metallophone!" I stand corrected.
December 19th - the first day of the kids winter break! I surprised them first thing in the morning with short notice that we would be taking family pictures. We hustled three boys in some clothes and drove off to Target. Family and individual photos were taken with three different shirt changes....and all was well! After ordering the photos, we told the boys we would go to IHOP - their favorite place to eat breakfast! We had a quick detour to pick up Kyler's friend, Andrew, and then enjoyed pancakes and hot chocolate! I love winter break.
