Where did February go?

Sorry friends I totally dropped the ball and have been MIA. Lets bring you all up to date :)

Family Pictures!

A bit behind, so a catch up post

Christmas! So much fun jam packed into one month. We enjoyed the Christmas Parade here in Keizer. Chilly but fun.

Keizer neighborhood lights. Claire was in charge of the camera that night. I have over 200+ photos of the houses all light up. 

Gingerbread house! Sweet candy fun!

Chex mix! Yummy....

Zoo lights with Boston and Tammy!

Christmas Eve! Santa's elves were busy for several hours putting together these Legos. They are well on their way in becoming Master Builders.

Laureli's gift from Santa. A new kitchen!

All ready for Christmas morning

Bright and early on Christmas morning. Claire showing Laureli how its done. She said thanks sissy I got it from here :) 

 Claire was Santa's helper and helped hand out all the presents

Tucker even got in on the Holiday magic with a "Pupachino" from Starbucks!

We had an amazing Christmas Season and are truly blessed by the love of Jesus. Looking forward to 2015!

Christmas Program

Claire's Christmas program at Crosshill Christian School was earlier this week. All the kiddos worked really hard and did an amazing job. We had older our students (who all had lines in the play) out with the stomach flu so it was a bit of a last minute scramble to get their lines memorized but it all worked out. Below is two links to YouTube to see a video (not taken by me) of the play. Claire can be seen as one of the peasants at approx minute 15 or watch the whole thing and enjoy!




http://youtu.be/7vq0E55WrIg


http://youtu.be/8Kxb96_NTiU

I didn't get any pictures of Claire that night but here are a few the next day at home showing off her apron that I made for her peasant outfit. It was a larger under taking than I anticipated but it all worked out. 

Tree hunt

We did our annual Christmas Tree hunt a little early this year. Claire was going to be at Grandma's house but we didn't want her to miss out on the fun. I found a groupon for $10 noble fir tree in South Salem. It isn't as manicured as we normally get, but I trimmed it right up and it looks great. Not to mention this has got be the smallest tree we have gotten in probably 10 years! The girls did great and the weather wasn't too bad just cold and muddy. Oh and Tucker came too :)

New Carpet!

We FINALLY have new carpet! I have waited for this since before we moved in. The downstairs looks great. Fresh coat of white paint on the ceiling and soft plush carpet on the floors. Now on to the upstairs!