Christmas 2010

Well, the season started out with me getting very sick for three or four days. Yuck! Thankfully, that didn't last too long. I love Christmas! The music, the ambiance, the tree, the decorations, the giving...everything! I love finding the perfect gift for someone. I love baking a whole bunch of cookies of various sorts and giving them away (and eating them!). I love receiving treats from friends and family (and some friends who are close enough to be family).

We had a great time decorating gingerbread houses with cousins. Thank you to Jenn for providing ours! I love all the different facial expressions in this picture.


The most important reason to celebrate is, of course, JESUS! I wanted to capture the importance of Jesus amongst the rest of the fun of Christmas.


I love this picture of Bekah playing with her Uncle Chris because she so rarely reaches out to anyone of the male persuasion besides her dad. So cute.


Well, Uncle James sent the kids about five pounds (that's 5 lbs!) of Jelly Belly's apiece! Needless to say, that gift was a hit!




So, the next three pictures are what happened after presents and breakfast...
Bekah - enjoying her new Taylor Swift CD and boots.


Paul - playing the new Mario game Santa brought.


Tim - taking a nap.


I got a Belgian waffle maker for Christmas! I've wanted one f-o-r-e-v-e-r. It works fantastically! I love, love, love, love it! And so does the rest of the family :)


I just love this picture of Tim and Bekah barbequeing (don't know how to spell that) deer meat. Our garage light does not work so Bekah had to hold the flash light so they could see how the meat was cooking. Tim got the BBQ for Christmas. It's a dual - which means propane and charcoal - very cool!

Concerts

Both children participating in musical entertainment in December.

Bekah sang at Breakfast With Santa at her school. She was a little nervous but they did so well. It was very well done and so cute. My pictures aren't that great because I was in charge of the sound system so I had to hover near the CD player.

You can see Bekah in the second row in the left corner.


Closer shot, middle left.

Paul's first band concert!! We have a wonderful band program at our middle school. A first concert is always scary but in the three years that I've attended the sixth grade concert (neighbor's kids are in band too) I've been amazed at the quality of sound they get out of 11 year olds playing their first instrument. Paul is in the percussion class which means drums, xylophone, etc.

Paul is in the back, red shirt and Santa hat.


Paul on the big base drum...you can barely see his head.


Now, that is me playing the base drum. They do one parent participation song which was really fun.