Tonight we enjoyed making popcorn with our new popcorn popper (a Christmas gift from Uncle Edward!). Naomi and Gabe had a hard time getting much... Andrew would gulp his and then clear their plates, too!
It was the perfect addition to family movie night. Yummy! (I think Gabe had zombie powder sprinkled on his??)
Gabe was a donkey for his preschool Christmas program, and he seemed to enjoy himself! He sang all 10 songs I had taught the preschool children, he didn't fall off the stage (some kids did!), and he munched plenty of cookies afterward. Fun, fun!
Last time Naomi stayed home from school with a cold, she got a haircut at a salon. This time, we're painting toenails. :)
This was almost immediately after our big Thanksgiving trip to Minnesota. There were piles of laundry to do, bags to unpack, a house to put back in order...but first things first!!!
Preschool Thanksgiving program, in which Gabe was a pilgrim. All the classes sang songs I had taught them, and then we had a Thanksgiving feast! (He was rather unenthusiastic about being photographed.)
Naomi occasionally finds there is no bookmark within reach. No worries;she's a creative one!
(We generally take quite good care of our books...)
You can see the Angel Moroni atop the spire in these pictures. Not all LDS temples have them, but the kids were very excited to see it. (Gabe thinks the angel is holding a baseball bat!)
I am thrilled we will have a temple so close to us - about 25 minutes away. It's a beautiful place where we can seek inspiration, feel God's love for us, and learn about Jesus Christ and about why we are on this earth and how we can be together as a family for all eternity.
Matt and I headed to the BYU football game last weekend - we were thrilled to have them in Atlanta! We went with friends, stopped by the Varsity for a snack (subpar hot dogs but over the top onion rings!), froze in the wind, and barely avoided getting motion sick on MARTA, the local train system. (Well, I was probably the only one who had problems on the train.)
We had a fantastic time and want BYU's football team to visit the south again. Real soon, ya'hear?
Saturday found us at Zoo Atlanta after Gabe's weekly soccer game. (Seven-ish goals scored by Gabe {we forgot to count}! His last game is next week!)
We lured parakeets with seed sticks. We climbed over a statue of Willie B the gorilla, a former long-time resident of Atlanta. We perched in a gigantic bird's nest. We picnicked and had fun! And we took most of the pictures with the other camera...
Andrew sported this eye patch for the entire day! (That was early in October; I've spent the rest of the month hiding it from him.)
Naomi was thrilled to take her dad to breakfast at school, so off they went together, both with backpacks!
A valuable lesson indeed: check the clipper attachment before putting blade to skin.
This was last Saturday, after Gabe's soccer game. He picked a game to play with me, and his choice was Carcassonne, or the map game as he refers to it. "Silly rules", of course (his code for not following the regular rules!).
It's been raining, though, so there were fun puddles for Andrew's splashing pleasure!
We are locked out of the house AND car. Luckily there is a cement truck down the street, which is pure entertainment. (Note Andrew is sporting a cement truck shirt and clutching (any guesses??)...yes, a cement truck toy!
