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2014 Online Christmas Letter

I figure this is probably just one step up from just sharing the automated facebook thing this year.  I think I write Christmas letters mostly for my own Family History, because I’m really bad at sending them out.  The idea of writing all those addresses and buying all those stamps is really daunting especially with 3 birthdays in our family in December and all the craziness of Christmas.  So here’s the letter that I finished sometime in between Charlotte’s birthday and Christmas, but haven’t sent out to anyone (I did hand deliver a few).

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Charlotte’s Birthday

Charlotte’s birthday fell on a Sunday so we split up her celebration.  We had the party on the Saturday before the party.  Unfortunately, Charlotte wasn’t feeling so well on the day of her party.  I thought she was just tired and I sent her down to the couch to rest and watch movies.  When I called her up just before the party she just buried her head in the couch.  She had a fever above 102.  I gave her some Tylenol and Zach gave her a blessing.  This is what she looked like when her friends started arriving:OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

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Our Elf on The Shelf

This is our Elf on the shelf.  Charlotte picked the name MaryBelle for her.  I know that not everyone is a fan of this tradition, but I love that my kids still believe in magic and this adds a little more magic to the Christmas season.  This tradition also proved to be helpful in getting my hardest to wake up child out of bed because she wanted to be the first to find MaryBelle.OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

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Charlotte at 9

Last year I didn’t find the time to write about Charlotte until February, so this year I feel pretty impressed with myself getting this post done on her birthday considering how crazy busy I’ve been.  Charlotte just happens to have a birthday in the busiest month of the year.2014-45622-40

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Ila at 5

It’s Ila’s birthday tomorrow.  She has been counting down the days till her birthday.  She’s very excited.  We made a paper chain so that she could stop asking me how many days.  OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

 

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Video Conversation with Thomas

This boy is just too cute!  I thought it was adorable how he says “taquito.” It sounds like “hot kiko.”  Anyway, once I had my camera out to record him saying taquito, I thought it was a great opportunity to record some of the other things my little smarty pants can do.  Often when I do reading lessons with Ila, Thomas insists on having a turn reading the words too.  He’s actually learned several of them.  He loves numbers and letters.

I had to break the video up into two parts because YouTube didn’t like it as one.  So here it is:

 

Lately. . .

So it’s been about a month since I’ve blogged anything and it’s intimidating to look at how much of life I haven’t written about.  Life has been super busy.

Isaac started Football.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAFootball is the most intense sport we’ve been involved in yet.  They started off about two weeks before school started with early morning practices five days a week for 1 1/2 hours each.  They also threw in a few afternoon practices as well.  Once school started they changed to three evenings a week for an hour and a half each.  They warm-up/practice for an hour before each game as well.   Read more »

Nicole’s New Room

It’s been hard to find time to write much or share much the last few weeks, but tonight I thought I’d share what I’ve been working on for the last few days.  We decided that we needed to move Nicole into her own room.  I had to deconstruct our guest room, which was admittedly really bare.  I forgot to take official before pictures, but here are some pictures I took after I got rid of the bed and moved most of the stuff out of the room.

BEFORE:OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAAs you can see, I had already started taping for paint when I remembered to take a pic.  AFTER:

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