Church History Museum

This President's day we went on a family trip to The Church History Museum. I loved the Friend magazine exhibit. I thought the children's art was wonderful, they had 1700 entries and about 100 on display.
This is a picture of my girls learning spanish dance at another exhibit. We were also privileged to get a visit from Abraham Lincoln himself that night, oh actually it wasn't Abraham Lincoln it was my brother, but the resemblance is striking.

Princess Box Violin

Box violins are a fun way to get beginners started. This one is a paint stick and a macaroni & cheese box. We covered it with her favorite princess and clear contact paper. She has a wedge shoulder rest and a rhythm stick for the bow. We like the ribbed stick because it makes a good sound when she plays rather than no sound at all. This was the first time she ever picked the violin up, this is a good "before" shot. After this picture was taken we added stickers to the right of Aurora's head to remind her where her left hand fingers go and we added another rubber band to the body to create a bowing lane.
This was a week ago. She's been practicing bow hold, posture, and rhythm everyday and is having a lot of fun. She likes to play "mississippi hot dog", and "tinkerbell is very tiny" the best.

Graham Cracker Creations

Today marks a sad anniversary for our family, so we gathered together as families should on such a day. I think we made some really good memories. For an activity we had intended to do graham cracker houses, but D wanted to make Thomas the train and the girls wanted to make a princess tower, so we had an assortment of creations. I couldn't believe that D sat there and decorated a train, he is really growing up. The girls had so much fun making Rapunzel out of candy and J did an awesome job on his candy cabin.

A summer birthday

This is two years in a row that I haven't found AP's birthday pictures until December because we are always out of town on her birthday and the pictures are on my phone nor someone else's camera. I noticed that she is wearing a cowboy hat again, funny. I'm posting the picture from two years ago first because it downloaded with the new stuff and I love it (thanks for taking it Dad). Here are her cupcakes, she wanted pink sparkly cupcakes and since we are all addicted to decorating stuff around here, they turned out to be pretty unique.

Christmas Song

My daughter wrote a Christmas song and I put it to music for her. So here is our "Christmas Card" to you.

Today Is The Day

Today is the day to celebrate, a very, very special date.
Today is the day a child was born and He is Christ the Lord.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! And He is Jesus Christ the Lord.

This little child was not the same, for at his birth an angel came
And this is what the angel said: Unto you a child is born!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! And He is Jesus Christ the Lord.

very rough, but you get the idea...

Halloween Pumpkins

Halloween Costumes