Award Day

We are so proud of Jonah and Ava! They each received awards at school. Jonah got two for memory work. One was Scripture and one was for Historical Documents (Preamble, a bunch of Amendments, Declaration of Independence).
Ava received Scholar of the Year for her class (only 1 girl and 1 boy in each class get this honor)!!
They both have worked so hard this year--we are really loving their school and the education they are receiving is incredible.
(Sorry for the horribly fuzzy pictures!)

Ava's Guitar

Ava's Animal Kingdom

They were all wanting some popcorn...

Ava's Amur Leopards

Ava with the baby Elephant!!

Christmas Tea

So Auntie Heather, Nana, and I took the girls to a French Cafe for a little more Christmas celebrating! We enjoyed hot chocolate, coffee, and water but somewhere we forgot to order the tea. A few very yummy french pastries filled our tummies and we were off to watch Tangled at the theater. It was a very fun day. :)

Annual Christmas Dessert

Every year my best friends and I take our girls to a fancy restaurant for a fun Christmas dessert. This year the fancy restaurant was my house ;)
It was so fun and this is the first year that Brynne joined us. That's her head not looking at the camera ;)

Mary and a Sheep with Nana

Singing "Silent Night"

Mary with Joseph and her "donkey"

The Nativity

Ava was Mary in our Christmas play today.
More pictures to come...

I finally opted to glue the wing back on the Bleeding Eye Angel

Ava made this hat this morning. She was going to to give it to a friend but decided she like to "keep some of my handicrafts"

Campin' Out on the Porch

 

 

Joe and Ava disappeared one day...when I found them they had made little beds on the porch (note the parasol). They wanted to camp out there (they come by that honestly) but maybe when they're a little older...

Date Night With Daddy

Two separate dates, two undeniably adoring girls with one head-over-heels Daddy. Sweet, indeed.

Ramona and Beezus on Ribsy

Sisters

Tongs on a Tuesday Morning

Ava: Woah, those would be good for scooping out brains!
Momma: Brynne, don't touch the baby with those.

Just the "A's"