Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Christmas concert

Kya joined a singing group about a month ago and has been going to singing classes once a week.  I think she really likes it.  Last night they had their Christmas Concert at the CSI Auditorium.  Aside from the fact that I have strep throat and feel miserable, we all went to the concert and enjoyed our evening.  But before the concert pics, here is a picture of Zander and his snowman...he was pretty proud of his crafts from our thanksgiving holiday weekend.
Zander colored on his doodle pro during the concert and wanted me to take pictures of everyone of his drawings...he is so funny.









Halloween 2012

As always, I love halloween.  I love that we get to dress up and pretend for one night.  I love that my kids get into the holiday as much as I do.  I love that they are creative and like to do crafts.  Its all great to me.  Kya decorated her pumpkin like a peacock and won 2nd Place Overall.  She is quite the artist.  I am her classroom mom and got to put together the halloween party.  The kids had a good time with a witches hat ring toss, pin the spider on the haunted house and making handprint spiders.  
Halloween evening we had a trunk-r-treat at the stake center then a chilli dinner.  Yummy.  Our costumes this year...Wizard of Oz.  I found Kya's Dorothy costume at Once Upon a child for just $6 and then Zander's Lion costume at DI for $2.  Carl's Wizard costume was about $10 from DI and I found my dress at DI for $30.  It was a wedding dress that I dyed pink.  My crown is some old cutting boards I had cut up and spray painted.  I love making our costumes, so much more than buying them as is.  Its fun to make something new out of something old.  I mentioned that it would be fun to have a baby by halloween so that we had a scarecrow or tinman...months before halloween.  Zander remembered that and asked where our baby was.  So we spray painted a doll silver to be the tinman and I had a little scarecrow, that he carried around with him.