Winter

 

 

 

 

Gecko

 

 

 

Logan got a Gecko months ago and it is growing and apparantly it is a girl. Takes a while to figure that out. Grody became Grodie.

Show Choir Wins Grand Champ

 

 

 

 

The Show Choir went away with Grand Champion and the girl group got 4th runner up. They also best choreography and best vocals, best combo, Best female vocalist and others, I think.

No front tooth

 

 

 

Anna lost her second front tooth. It was a nasty pull. Brandon and I both got sick in the stomach. At one point it was sticking straight out and Brandon tried getting it out, but it was really hanging on. I finally popped it out. Barry missed all that fun while he was working BINGO that night for Show Choir.

Wisconsin Weekend

Logan's Show Choir went to Onalaska/La Crosse for a competition. I jumped at the chance for all of us to go because I knew that Brandon and Anna would love the hotel. It was a Stoney Creek Inn and it was very neat. The kids loved playing in the pool and Brandon loved how it had a pass-thru under to the outside. Brrr....it was a very very cold weekend, though. Negative temps were a norm there. We had fun at lunch with the Bowlings and enjoyed watching the choir perform. We were hoping that they would make finals, but they didn't. The show is timed and they went over the time limit and didn't make finals. Basically you have the preliminaries and then the top 6 schools make it to the finals that evening. We sat there for hours and Anna just sat and did her own thing. Brandon enjoys watching it all, too. I think they were also zapped out from all the swimming and sat without squirming for hours. I think in the 34 year history, they have not made finals like TWICE. Well, lesson learned and this weekend they are off to another competition. We didn't see Logan a whole lot, but we had a good weekend.

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CHRISTMAS DAY!

 

 

 

 

Christmas day!

We woke up Christmas Day (early, of course) to see if Santa had left anything for the Schmidt House. Yep...he came and the kids had fun with their gifts and then we had brunch at our house with my parents and Grandma. Later in the afternoon we went to my parents and spent the whole day their with my sister and her family.

Schmidt Christmas

Had a fun day at the Schmidt's for Christmas Eve.

Santa Time

 

 

 

CANTATA

 

 

 

 

The kids had the church cantata recently. Anna was a lamb in the Nativity, Justin was a wiseman, Brandon was Joseph and Logan was just....well, himself!

ANNA

 

 

 

 

Because the Flu hit the Schmidt House, Brandon missed his school program and I missed Anna AND Logan's when I had it. YUK! I hate missing the kids' things. Breaks my heart. Thanks to the power of video tapes, I didn't miss Anna's at all. NOT quite the same. She had a speaking part as a narrator and did a wonderful job. She had a very loose tooth and still spoke clearly.

By the way, Anna has always been VERY tall at school compared to her friends. I was anxious to see her that night and hated not to see how tall she was this Christmas next to everyone else. She was standing next to a boy that has always been huge next to her and tall. Hardly any first graders are ever as tall as that boy, Brent.

And now she needs to ask Santa for her front tooth for Christmas! She lost it at school the next day. She was walking to music and Mrs. Driscoll, the gal I always sub for, saw how wiggly it was and asked Anna if she wanted her to pull it. OF course, she did!

Weber Christmas at our house!

Grandma Weber always has Christmas at her house, but I thought it would be nice to have it at our place this year. She is getting older and has had some health issues this year. It is time for the younger ones to take our turn at hosting for a while. We had a nice day, but I will admit, it was a bit odd not having a day at Grandma's. It was fun having everyone together and the kids all had fun. Little grace is only one and Jackson is 3 1/2. They are simply adorable. FUN and EXHAUSTING DAY! Julie and Paul's Ashleigh didn't come and the relatives from Ramsey didn't make it either.

Mostly exhausting because the flu hit our house bad in the last couple weeks. And today Barry got it. LOVELY!

HO! HO! HO!

 

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Christmas is coming!

 

 

 

 

We are very busy here getting ready for Christmas! People thought I was crazy when I started decorating mid November. (Thanks to Heidi and Michelle, my Marco gals). I am sooo glad that I did do my decorating early. We have been able to really enjoy the lights and my trees. I had a party in November and Barry's work managers came in the same week, so I really did need to start my baking and cleaning and decorating pretty early. We host the Weber Christmas soon so I will have 32 here next weekend for the big day.

The kids had their big church program and tomorrow is the Cantata and Anna and Brandon dress up in the Nativity and they all sing. At the Follies, Brandon and Miss Nancy did a duet and it was wonderful. Logan sang a Solo and it was awesome, too. I will post the videos another day.

Parent visitation

I got to spend an hour Anna's classroom in November for Parent Visitation. She did a great job in the little play she read in and we enjoyed PE and a Skittles activity.