Saturday, December 18, 2010

Gingerbread Winter Wonderland!

 The kids participated in a COVA (Colorado Virtual Academy) event called the Gingerbread Winter Wonderland and Ice-skating Event. They participated in the for fun gingerbread creation category. In this category, the kids simply created gingerbread creations to display in the huge edible community.

They had so much creating their special creations to show off. However, in the process of transporting Jairon’s suffered the earthquake effect, Zach’s slid off his lap and was barely caught by his toes due to a sudden stop, and Ellie well as she put it, “It just looks and smells so good my tummy is to grumbly and hungry!” She started eating hers during the 20 minute drive to the event.

Once we got checked in and found where to display the creations one of the other moms from our group (also a Rebecca) helped me reconstruct Jairon’s house. Thank goodness, the frosting he had used to “fix” the house on the way in was still wet and sticky. We were able to make his house look almost like it had before leaving home. Talk about one surprised kid to see his house standing after skating.

In addition to making gingerbread houses the kids got to ice-skate. This was the first time for Ellie and I think for Zach. Not sure about Jairon. What surprised me the most was the fact that Jairon got out on the ice and stayed out there. When roller skating he will NOT stay on the floor. Yet when on the ice he could NOT get enough.

Ellie had so much fun! She was all smiles and simply beaming while skating around with her cone out there. Zach was thrilled to be in the rink and moving. By the end, Zach was skating by himself. All six kids had a blast today and cant wait to skate again.

Chantelle's Gingerbread creation










Zach's creation, he kept disapearing from the camera



Jairon's creation



Corbyn's creation





Jade's creation





Celidah's creation



This week has been so busy for the family. To start the week we found out that we were able to attend a special Blue Man Group concert taping to start our week out on Wednesday.


Turned out we were in for a treat. While we did not get to see a full concert, we were part of the Denver Colorado audience used to tape an upcoming show. Some of the stuff we saw has been used in other shows while other stuff was brand new.
The finale was the kids favorite part. At the end, they had balls for the audience to bounce around, streaming rolls of tissue paper, silly string. Pretty much everything made quite a mess. However, the first taping the balls were not released so they had to start over again. In the end, the finale was run 4 times, then the final time the producers let the song just run over and over.

Everyone had a great time and now the kids really want to attend a full concert as soon as daddy comes home from Afghanistan.

I do not have any pictures because photography was not allowed.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Beautiful Sunset

Celidah grabbed the camera last night and ran outside telling me "I have to go and I'll be back in a second but I have to go now or I'll miss it." She left quickly and slammed the door. A few minutes she came in bouncing through the door. Smiling she gave me camera and with a excited voice told me to look at the pictures she just got.

These are awesome pictures for a 13 yr old amature photographer!

Here are the pictures she took while outside:











Breakfast with Santa

We had the first of our Christmas parties of the year. The kids hads fun in the begining. When we arrived Burger King had donated french toast and pancakes, they also had fruit, juice, cookies, and hot chocolate. In addition to this, there was a brass ensoble playing a variaty of Christmas and childrens songs. Once Sanra and Mrs. Santa arrived everyone lined up.



 Mrs Santa saying Hi to everyone waiting in line

 Activities and small gifts whilr the kids wait in line
 Showing off what she just got
 Jairon and Jade being silly
 becoming a Zach reindeer
 thining "which one do I want"
just love this snapshot in black and white :)
 Jade reindeer (line boredom busters)
 reindeer Ellie
 reindeer Corbyn
 reindeer Jairon
 silly Celidah reindeer
 finally seeing Santa




group pictyre with Mrs Claus. If you look at Ellie she is doing the I love you sign just for her daddy!