Monday, November 23, 2009

School Photos Fall 2009

Here are the kids' school pictures. I think they turned out quite nicely!!

Leah School 2009
I believe Leah wins the award for cutest kid :)

Elijah School 2009
Elijah looks like such a little man!!

Hannah School 2009
This was taken a week before Hannah got her glasses. She looks a bit different with them, but beautiful regardless!!

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Hannah's 7th Birthday Party (3 weeks delayed thanks to H1N1)

We failed to get any pictures of the kids painting their sun catchers, but I did have Pete run around and take a few of the kids eating...
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Elijah and Mason

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Elijah

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Mason (he tends to look like this after cake at birthday parties...)

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Ben and Zack

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Ben

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Zack and Leah (who did amazingly well, since she was pretty much unsupervised during the eating part of the party)

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Leah and Walker

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Kristin and Daniela

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Isabel and Hannah who is looking quite pleased :)

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Madelyn and Isabel

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Neha

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Katherine and Madelyn

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Madelyn

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Mason

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Elijah

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Mason and Elijah

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More of the same

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We had 20 minutes to kill before swimming, so we played a rousing game of Duck Duck Goose.

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Emily, who managed to miss being photographed while eating, Madelyn, and myself with a very interesting expression.

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Wow, another bad look from me!

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After this we went swimming for an hour and it was a LOT of fun!!

Friday, November 6, 2009

We Got a Piano!!!

I've always wanted a piano, and now I finally have one!

I took a year of piano lessons in 5th grade, but we didn't have a piano at home. So, I got permission to use a piano at school and I practiced during lunch recess.

Hannah and Elijah have been asking to take piano lessons for a while now, and I was debating on what to buy. I could get a $200 keyboard at Target which would probably be fine, or maybe a nice digital piano... both would allow the kids to practice wearing headphones. But I finally decided I wanted a REAL piano.

On Wednesday, I went to a local music store (I wasn't even sure they'd have pianos) just to look. The rest is history, I guess!

The piano teacher has been called, and hopefully she can fit in both kids (she thinks it's iffy about Elijah starting lessons... so I may try and find a Suzuki method teacher for him)

I ordered a couple of John Thomson (red books) piano books that I used, and they should arrive today. I can't wait!

I decided to surprise the kids, so I didn't tell them about the piano. Leah really liked it, and played for a good 15 minutes. Elijah was very surprised, but only played for a few minutes. After he realized he couldn't play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, he decided to do something else. I can't wait to see how Hannah reacts. This morning she told me she couldn't wait until we got a piano, and we walked around the house deciding where we should put a piano. She decided the entry way was the "only" place we had. I think she'll be surprised to see it where the rocker used to be.


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Sunday, November 1, 2009

Random pictures to round out October

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Hannah's new glasses!

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My first quilting project finally finished!!! Four, far from perfect, but cute placemats :)

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Hannah's zebra mask that she made at school.

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Hannah transferring a design onto her pumpkin.

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Hannah's cat and Elijah's pirate pumpkins.

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Pre Trick or Treat

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Sweeties!!!!