Santa's Workshop

This is out of my favorite Lego set! Yes, I made it all by myself, without my brothers' building "genius".

Adelynn and I

Adelynn found a box with some of my old dresses and immediately fell in love with them!

Adelynn, age 5

Shaylynn, age 4

There doesn't look like much similarity there, aside from the dress. In this picture, however, there is a hint of Addie's grin.

I've got alot to post! Yesterday was Nick's birthday, and I need to get those pictures up. I have older pictures to post, too.
On Sunday, the Woelks were having a Christmas party where they asked people to preform Christmas songs. The Sauers and I discovered that we had the same song, O Holy Night, in the same key. Nicole played the violin, Michelle played the flute, and I was on the piano. (Jacob Hamacher played gutair and Elise sang) We played it through a couple times, and it sounded really good! Mrs. Sauer asked us to play at the Christmas Eve Mass! I'm so excited!
It was also really neat to hear Father Basil, who is from Nigeria, sing. In addition to singing, violin, flute, and gutair, the accordian and recorder were also played. Dad challenged everyone with a fun singing game. He divided the room in half, and each half sang a different word (Not syllables) of Jingle Bells. This is what some of it should have been like:
Side 1: Jingle
Side 2: Bells
1: Jingle
2: Bells
1 Jingle
2 All
1The
2 Way... etc.
This is what happened:
1 Jingle
2 Bells
1 Jingle
2 Bells
1 Jingle
2 All The
1 Way
2 Oh What- wait! One WORD, not syllable!!!!!!!!

Ben got a long-awaited email account. What else has happened? Lets see, we set up the Christmas tree and lights. Well, we haven't done much to post about, but I have some fun pictures coming, so hang onto your seats!

We went to Taos on Friday until Saturday. Sorry, I didn't take any pictures. I thought that Carrie took one of all the shoes lined up (there were over 30 of us in the house, and all the shoes were in the hallway) but it wasn't on the card, so I guess not. We made a fun video, but again, I don't know how to condense the video to put it online. So...
Josh brought his girlfriend, Amanda. She is so sweet and nice. Keith and Cheryl are fostering, and they are taking care of a boy Marcus' age, Ethan. They have actually had him for a long time- almost a year.
Sorry, right now I am just rambling. Tonight we moved the furniture in the basement around. We are getting rid of the entertainment center, because we will not use it now that we have the projector. The screen that we got is electric, and rolls up and down with the push of a button! Mom said that we got that kind of screen because the mechanical screens had trouble with a little mechanism breaking, but I think that we got it just for the coolness factor. (It is pretty cool!)

Thanksgiving Pictures at Grandma's

This just doesn't look right. Me, on the ripstick, doing a 180- in a skirt. lol.

Nick and Addie's Party at Trish's

Wednesday, we went to Trish and Nick's new house for Nick and Addie's Birthday party with Grandma, Papa, Trish, and Nick.

The two birthday kids.

Trish and Nick gave Adelynn a box of hair bows.

Too sweet.
Grandma and Papa gave her the new Tinkerbell movie

Nick's present was Mario Galaxy for the Wii

His big bro liked it, too

I told him to smile. This is what I get.

Adelynn got a bike! It is Kennedy's (Nick's neice, I think. My uncle Nick, not brother.) old bike, but looks like new!

The cake had TONS of icing! YUM!

Eating Cake

The Cake

Mom got decorator icing and an icing kit. This is my first attempt:

Nicholas put on the strawberry icing. He decided that he did not want to attempt the flowers.

Adelynn is 5

Adelynn turned 5 on November 25th. She was so sweet!

She wore the same outfit that she wore to the play, only without the ribbons in her hair. Instead, she but a bow right smack in the middle of her head. Oh, well.

I made her a little crocheted ballet bun holder. She wanted to be a "real" ballerina. I told her that we will ask Mom about getting "real" ballet shoes when she actually learns her first dance. (Walmart has pink ballet flats that look like the real thing.) However, I still have not finished choreographing her dance (I do not know that much ballet, and it is hard to teach her simple things- she keeps falling over when she does pirouettes and she waves her arms like a bird while doing an arabesque.)

Mom and Dad got Adelynn a Dora paint-by-number (she looks at the pictures and attempts to match the colors, stubbornly refusing to use the numbers) and a, what is it, Bella Dancerella dance thing. Basically, it is a movie "Bella", a teenage girl, dancing and looking positively ridiculous with a big pink plastic wand, five little girls dancing with her, and a dance mat that you stand on. Adelynn got upset that the movie did not teach her how to dance, but she loves to pull out the mat and practice first through third positions.

Mom made the mistake of handing Nick the video camera. I now have a video of Nick's teeth, the ceiling light, the bow on Adelynn's head, and someone's toe, but no video of Adelynn opening the presents. Oh, well.

I can't believe how old she is! Five already! And she is so sweet. Mom asked her if her birthday was good, and she said, "almost". Mom asked what she could do to make it better. Adelynn looked at her, and said, "No fighting." (Her birthday was a cleaning day for the rest of us, and everyone was being pretty cranky to everyone but her).

Oh, my, am I THAT late?

It's been alot longer than I realized since my last post! So sorry! There is much to post about... Right now I have some of my pictures downloading. New post in a few minutes!!!