December Fun

Here are some pics of some of the activities we have done this month.

Beauty & The Beast

Posing after Beauty & the Beast. Dayton's doing the "Cameron's tongue game"

We joined a homeschooling fieldtrip group. So every month there's lots of fieldtrips that we can go on. We have been going to see plays/musicals about once a month. In October, we saw "Honk! The Ugly Duckling"; in Novemeber, we saw "Joseph and the Technicolor Coat". This month we were able to see "Annie" & "Beauty & The Beast". They have been great plays & it has been fun to take the kids to them.

The set (well part of it). I wish I had some pictures of the actors. The candlestick was hillarious.


Grandma & Grandpa Coates were able to join us for Beauty & The Beast.

& Great Grandma Coates joined us too.

Playing around after the Play

Getting some pictures with my new camera (before the screen broke. Luckily, we were able to return it to Costco even w/out a receipt-- Another reason why Costco is my favorite store. They did the same for us a year ago or so, when we returned our couch/loveseat that we had in storage for 2+ years w/out a receipt too)-- and now after that brief endorsement -- we'll go back to the blog.

The Nativity
We went to the Deaf Branch's Christmas Primary Party. We saw Santa (as shown in the other post), the kids also acted out the Nativity Play. Here are some pictures of the Play.

M & M's our little Angel

Mel & Co Co are wise men.

All three - waiting for the play to start.

Looking to the star...

The Cast


Gingerbread House!

We also made a Gingerbread house. Grandma & Grandpa Coates came over for dinner that night & then helped (watched) the kids as they decorated the house.

Dayton is really "in" to this. (he's "in" to anything with candy)

Don does a great job decorating the house with icing.

The gingerbread house before all the candy is on.

Grandpa Coates taking some pictures. His pictures probably turned out better than mine, because my screen broke on my camera -- so I was taking all of these pictures of the gingerbread house activity "blind". I couldn't see what I was taking until we loaded it on the computer.

Working on the house.

Dayton ate SO MUCH candy!

The house is almost finished. (Lovely picture of Courtney.) We told the kids they didn't have to wait until Christmas to eat the candy (since we won't be here for Christmas), but they had to wait until the next day. Well, over the next two days the house was striped bare... the kids ate all of it in two days. (The dentist is going to love us).

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Christmas Ballet Peformance

Melanie & Emma's ballet class did a Christmas dance performance for two adult care homes. Melanie danced in two songs & Emma danced in three. Courtney's doing dance with the gymnastic team this year, so they don't perform with the other dance classes. Here are some pics of the two girls dancing. It wasn't anything formal - the kids were just told to wear their pink dance outfits with a Christmas t-shirt over it. Everyone enjoyed all of the Christmas dances.

Emma getting ready to dance.

Melanie dancing.

Christmas Church Party

We went to the Church Christmas Party. Most years the Christmas party that the church has is for Adults only, this year they included kids. It was a talent show with dessert & then Santa (a different one) came. The kids told me he wasn't the real Santa either.