New Years Day

What a lazy day it has been. I took a nap while Russ and Sarah went outside and Mona watched movies on TV. In the evening we went over to the Parisian's house for dinner and talking. The minute we got inside the house, the girls were gone upstairs and the adults got to enjoy talking without interruption. They did come down for dinner and then Sydney and Elise gave Mona and Sarah each a gift for Christmas. We came home and Sarah passed out soon after going to bed.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!!! We had an awesome time with our friends that we think of as family. We had the Fourniers and the Gees here. There were 13 people. The kids played and had a wonderful time together. We had dinner of spegetti and meat sauce, garlic bread and salad and 3 types of dessert. After dinner, we went out and did sparklers, confetti wands and poppers. The poppers were duds but the sparklers and confetti was great. After we came in and played Disney Bingo. Emma won most of the time but we all had fun trying. We watched the ball drop in New York and had sparkling apple cider after. Then everyone went home. It was a faboulus way to spend New Years!! We will do it again next New Years with Micah joining us.

Sarah turns 5 1/2

We measured Sarah as she became 5 1/2 on the 28th of December. She was so excited to become 5 1/2 that we had to measure her as soon as we got home from San Antonio.

Christmas in San Antonio

We had Christmas with the Richter's of San Antonio at Oma's house on the 28th. Ken, Rhonda, Mary Francis, Katheryn, Kelby, and Justin, Harold and Karen, Oma and Russ, Julie, Mona and Sarah were there. We had a wonderful meal made by Oma and opening of presents. We all had fun.

Pictures of Christmas Evening

Here are the pictures I promised yesterday. I have also put a video of Sarah being the Fiddler of the Roof. Sarah got a violin from Manna and began to dance and play. It was quite a show!!

Christmas Evening

We had the Fourniers over for for dinner tonight. They brought beans, augratin potatoes, rolls and cookies. Janet also brought rolls and ambrosia salad. We made a tur-duck-n and it was actually pretty good. We also made jello, green bean casserole and sweet carrots. Mona made a chocolate cake for us to celebrate Jesus' birthday. Darlene read a story to the kids and then we sang happy birthday. Everything was really good. The girls had a great time playing and laughing and making a mess they began to play with the train. The only pictures I got was of the girls playing with the train. Then as we were saying goodbye, Sarah began to play her new violin. She was the Fiddler on the Roof and was dancing around. I will post pictures tomorrow as the computer is going to slow and I have tried twice to upload them and it hasn't worked.

Sarah the Archaeologist

Manna gave Sarah and kit to dig out a dinosaur. Sarah and dad went outside and started digging. She used a hammer and spike and a brush and put on her safety glasses. She began to dig and decided that she needed gloves to protect her hands. She chiseled into the rock and made a hole. She checked out the hole by looking in and using her finger. She was very excited to see the bones. She wanted to know if the dinosaur was 'intact or not'. She used the brush and tools to chisel some more until she found the pieces to the dinosaur. She was very careful not to pound on the bones. After finding all the bones, she helped clean up and then she and Dad put the dinosaur together. It was a T-Rex.