little artist

One of Trevor’s favorite gifts from Christmas was an art desk/easel.  He loves to color with crayons and colored pencils, but his FAVORITE is when he is allowed to paint. 

Christmas Sampling

I took way too many pictures of our Christmas celebration….way too many.  But, to catch up and start the year off right, I’ll go through our Christmas super fast. 

 

opening christmas pajamas

“Where’s Santa?”

After church, I asked a parishioner (who also happens to be our Realtor) to do us a favor by taking a family picture for us—that the favor would be easier than finding us a house.  Clearly, I lied.  Exhibits A, B and C.   

After Christmas, we packed up our stuff and headed up to CT for a week to spend time with family and celebrate our fifth wedding anniversary. 

Merry Christmas Eve!

Just in case you aren’t in the holiday spirit yet, here are some pictures from Trevor’s school program this week.

Christmas may be in two days…

But we are still playing in leaf piles down here in VA…..

 

an overview…

Funny how I seem to blink and two weeks have gone by. 

We’ve been super busy getting ready for the holidays coming up, but things seem to be kicking into high gear with this weekend. 

We have the house pretty much decorated…still need to finish outside.  Our roof lights are up, and our angel is in the front flowerbed (I’ll have to get a picture of that—her positioning makes her look like she is mourning the death-by-unknown-animal suffered by my favorite hydrangea ::tear::) but I haven’t been able to choose what I want to do with the porch railings or a wreath on the front door. 

Trevor is going to be in the Advent pageant at church this year (like a Christmas pageant, only there is no baby Jesus because it. is. not. Christmas. yet.).  That is Sunday, I am not convinced he will do anything more than stand there and make one adorable donkey/cow/sheep.  That, is a silent role my son is good at. 

Tuesday is Trev’s holiday program at school….he has been doing parts of whatever is a part of the program at home, so I really don’t know what to expect, but I am sure it will be fabulous given our experience so far at West Ghent. (PS, decision to send Trevor to WGS = one of the best we have ever made)

Wednesday Shane goes on leave for about 3 weeks.  It will be great to have him home…but we will get to that more later. 

I finished my first semester of graduate school this month.  Interesting experience…very different from my accounting class experience at ODU.  Ended up with a 4.0 after a perfect score in the class….amazing what happens when you care about the subject matter, eh? 

I feel the need to include some cute Trev photos, for good measure…

opening Ornament presents from Grandma and Grandpa Chapman a special prize goes to the person who correctly identifies the movie trev is watching in the above photo. 

I hope that everyone’s holiday preparations and celebrations are coming along well. 

it’s the holiday season…

 

It must be, because a family of reindeer just moved into our living room! 

Sub-Zero Saturday

I woke up this morning to a frost covered yard, scraper-worthy car and a temperature app that notified me that it is 28 degrees outside.  My poor heat pump had kicked on the auxiliary heat in order to keep up (that is a story for another day though.).  I am thoroughly confused.  I thought I lived in VIRGINIA, not Connecticut.  Let me say that again, just in case Mother Nature needs me to slow down a bit…VUR-GIN-YA, not CON-NET-I-CUT.  Cold weather is more than welcome….in December. Or January.  But this, this is ridiculous.  I haven’t even picked up my winter coats from the dry cleaner yet.  Give me the chance to do that first, ok? 

Moving on…

I have been fighting something all week….not sure what, but it makes me randomly tired and I have a lovely voice that only my family can appreciate (read:  I cannot talk.).  So, this morning Shane and Trevor took over breakfast duties…

Delicious!…I am pretty sure it is the aprons.  Shane had one too, but will not allow me to share the photos. 

And now Shane has it in his head that he wants to head downtown to the farmer’s market (?!?!)…Off to locate the ice scrapers!      Happy Saturday!