OK. Here are some highlights from Nov thru mid-Dec of 2012 (I know this is truly a sad way to blog). I am basically back-tracking for myself, one day I may scroll through and I know that I will want to see a reasonable age progression of my kiddos, not a year jump in blog time!!!
Veteran's Day 2012-Nat's school honored Veteran's. Nat displayed Pappoo's pic from WWII.
Yes, I started putting up Christmas decor Nov 14th last year.
Had to buy a new tree to go with the new house. My old tree was 6ft and was super chubby (is that the right way to describe a tree?..hmm.. not sure) Anywho....we have a skinnier, I mean more narrow living room in this house and the ceilings are 10-ish ft so I had to get a 9.5ft slim tree. Here is a pic of Elia and Minnie in front of the tree to demonstrate it's ginormous-ness.....
Natalyn's Thanksgiving class party. Nat is on her knees to the right of the picture. The day before the party, she came home and was insistent that all the kids in her class were dressing as Indians or Pilgrims on party day. Though I never got any information from the school discussing such, I rushed to Wal-Mart and bought beads and a brown shirt that I converted into an Indian-ish looking ensemble. As you can see...there are no other Indians....and not one Pilgrim in the bunch...but she was so happy to dress up, so it was worth it!
Peeps, get ready for some DIY stories over the next few weeks! I got a ton of the them! Some worked out...some, ummmmm not so much. Here is my first decorating attempt of the Christmas tree. I loved my tree decor in the old house, but none of it fit with this house...too bad I didn't really notice how much it didn't work until I was basically finished decorating it. So...I talked out loud to myself for several days about how the "tree decor may grow on me"...and " I'll just change it next year.." the talking went on until Scott told me to just redo the blasted thing!!
So...ya don't have to tell me twice to go shopping.....so off I went...I bought some stuff, made some stuff and painted to re-use some stuff...so here's the new tree with all the ...stuff!
With all that tree decorating stress behind me, I took time to eat lunch with Nat...her first Book-it Pizza!!! I loved Book-it and actually completed every month for every year in elementary school...not that you care or anything!!!
Our school's first Christmas Parade Flood. Yes, I was a co-chair with an amazingly organized, logistic guru... and I know how to use a glue gun...so we made a perfect team!! We made gingerbread people and put a flag on each tummy representing every country that Willowbrook has student's from (there are 12 if you were wondering)...
We put a big globe in the middle....
Michelle and I are co-chairing again this year.......we learned a lot from last year......so I hope to step it up a notch!!
Natalyn and her classmate Mallory..
Nat's class Christmas party...Elia Rose pretty much thinks that school is all about parties, since every time she goes with me, there is some major event going on...no wonder she wants to go to school so bad!!!
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