Memories of Christmas Season 2011

This past Christmas Season we did a lot of new things! Here is some of our fun!
We kicked off our Christmas season with a visit to a backyard train adventure.


Next, I treated Ava to a Mommy/Daughter “Tea With The Sugar Plum Fairy”



We also visited the tunnels at Neiman Marcus this year! This was super fun and I can’t believe we have missed this is Christmas’ past. Unfortunately, Levi missed out because of a fever…..I guess there will be 2012 for him


Zachariah was too fast for me to snap his picture! I got these cute pictures inside Neimans.


Zachariah’s Kindergarten class presented a sweet Nativity Play and he was a HOLY cow. (His words!)

I love this picture. There was a real baby in the manger who started to cry, the cow jumped up to soothe the baby!



Finally, just some cute shots from the Season.






I will add, we decided to travel this year, even though I swore 2 years ago I wouldn’t travel again until they were MUCH older, so I decided NOT to decorate my house this year.  It is funny that the simple act of not decorating my own home, seemed to have given us lots of extra time to enjoy other things as a family. We had a super fun Christmas Season this past year.

Art To My Door

One of the things I love most about my friends is discovering all the unique gifts and talents we each have to bring to the table. One of my friends, Isela is a wonderful art teacher! I have a group of friends who often get together and this time Isela brought an art lesson to my door with her kids!

First, she started off with a book for all the kids to identify hidden shapes in pictures. This group of kids ranged from
ONE

to
THREE

to
Almost FOUR

and FIVE

The children started by using pastels to draw circles.
(this little guy got to use the teacher’s model)
Then they used another color to continue drawing circles to the outer line of their paper.

Then they carefully used a q-tip mix the colors…

Lastly, they painted with watercolors around the individual squares….

creating their own personal masterpiece!


Here are some snap shots from our very fun Art Day!