Friday, December 30, 2011

Candlelight Service 2011

Some photos of the Christmas Eve service that we had on Saturday night, but I threw in two photos from church earlier in the day when Cary was playing the piano and Ella ran and sat by him. Ooops. ☺




Like I mentioned earlier, Aidan REALLY did not want to be in the play, but we kept pep talking him into it.

 Ella: "Mom, I an angel! I so pretty!"












 Uh, yeah...see Aidan? For whatever reason, once he got up there and it started he turned into a ham and didn't seem bothered by being up there. It could have been that the lights were off and the spotlight made it so that he didn't know lots of people were watching. ;)
 Ella was the angel that goes everywhere with everyone. Both kids ended up having a lot of fun and they were sad when it was done. ☺









































If you are so inclined...

Thursday, December 29, 2011

December Catch-Up

I've taken sooooo many pictures this month, going through them I'm leaving pictures out all over the place so I'll occasionally see a photo I wanted to include. I was doing really well and then this past week things got crazy and I've not been taking as many photos.
The day after Christmas we went in to SLC to spend some time with Cary's family and we had a Hanukkah party here at EskDale on the last day of Hanukkah and I didn't get photos from any of those events. :P
 These were some I took of Britton at school one day when we went to pick up the kids early and he played with some toys.


 So for Hanukkah, I played the Maccabeats songs for the kids, and now Ella asks all. the. time. for me to play music. Her favorite is the "blue and white song!" because when we look for it on you tube, the background is blue and white.
 Anyway, this particular time, she and Britton were dancing and watching the video. It was really cute.

 Britton likes tools, here he's checking out Dad's drill set and telling Kenneth about all the specs.

 Last week, Alex came to visit from Arizona and brought Aidan and Ella some gifts from Rose and him.



 Aidan loved the legos, but I think he liked Alex helping him put it together even more!
 Ella got some "princess music".
 Britton coming over to check it out too.
 Later that week, it was dress rehearsal time for the kids nativity play.
 Cary trying to give Aidan a pep talk about being up front in the play.

 Britton in his sheep outfit.



 Aidan looking very sad and picked on to have to sit on the "shepherds hill".
 Ella is such a devilish looking angel. ☺

 Aidan wasn't the only kid unhappy about being up front. Ernesto wasn't happy about it either.



More pictures of the actual play to come...and more. ☺