{Gingerbread Party}

One of the fun things we do on Thanksgiving is Gingerbread Houses that evening. This year since we had many of the Apos in town we had a big party. Blaine and Vanessa came over with their 3 girls and V's sister and husband and baby boy. K & E were here and Caitlin was still hanging out with us.

So we had 8 houses to make and one tree.

I started on the frosting and all the "adults" started in on the house building.

It was kinda a mess.

Caitlin's bag of frosting blew up on her. K and C were using cans to hold up walls and frosting was everywhere. That was before the decorating even started.

Before long we had 8 houses up and ready to be decorated.

The "kids" decorated and made a bigger mess....but we ate lots of candy, frosting and pie. Laughed a lot and made great memories...

Now we have a small gingerbread village at our house! I love the holidays!!

{thanksgiving 2010}

This year for the holiday we were lucky to have some Apo family come to town.

Caitlin traveled over from DC and Kris and Elisa arrived from SLC.

We had a great time, ate lots, rested lots and shopped a lot (we are Black Friday Shoppers over here). We even made time for an adults evening out before Caitlin had to return home.

Kris and Elisa ended up having to leave early because of a snow storm coming to the SLC area. But before they left they were very brave and took all the kids (mine and Blaine's two oldest) to the movies.

(K cooking with Auntie)

(playing games with Uncle Kris and Auntie Elisa)

We love having the family over and hope that everyone can make a return trip next year too!

{Plymouth Play}

It is that time of year again for our school's annual Plymouth Plantation Play.

This year E was an Indian. He has a speaking part, was part of the Thanksgiving Feast and got to "shoot" a bow and arrow.

K revived his role as Governor John Carver this year. He had a few speaking parts, got to "travel" on the Mayflower to America," signed the Mayflower compact and was elected the Governor.

It is a fun tradition at our school and this was K's last time in the play as he will move to Upper Grammar next year and this is a Lower Grammar Production.

{Dressed for the weather}

So the weather has turned cold here in Vegas, if you are like us and now think 65 degrees as cold.

We went out for dinner on a "cold" night and this is how our children were dressed.....

Yeah, they can't figure out what they should wear either...freezing cold or spring weather?

{Math Bee 2010)

The math bee was fun again this year and the boys did fairly well. In school they are each placed in math classes according to their ability. This year E is in the math class one grade above his "normal" class and K skipped a math class and is in a Pre-Algebra class. So for the math bee they competed with their math class.

K was able to continue through the math bee into the next class level after his math class. He made it about halfway through the next level.

We are happy and proud of the dedication the boys have in their school work not only math but in every part of their education.