Talia and Kayli’s School Christmas Musical


Talia’s Class

Kayli’s Class

Talia and Kayli had their school Christmas musical yesterday. The kids in grades 1-6 participate in the show every year. That means that this year was the last year for Talia to be in the show. Everyone sang great and the show was a lot of fun to watch. The kids had props and did moves to a lot of the songs. Talia said she is sad she doesn’t get to do it next year, because she loves to sing.

Aidan’s Kindergarten Christmas Show


Aidan had his kindergarten Christmas show last night. They did the story of Jesus’s birth. Aidan was a shepard. They sang a bunch of songs and were all so cute! Aidan said he had a lot of fun doing the show.

Girl Scout Ice Skating


Yesterday was the annual girl scout ice skating event. Talia and Kayli both attended the event. I went skating with them. We all had a great time.

Report Card Time

Talia, Kayli and Aidan got their first trimester report cards yesterday. They all did great and I’m very proud of all of them! Talia continued her perfect record of making the honor roll with all A’s and one B+. Kayli got straight A’s on her report card. This is the first year Kayli has gotten letter grades. She won’t be elligible for the honor roll to next year though. Aidan doesn’t get grades, but instead gets “S” for satisfactory or “N” for needs improvement. He got all S’s.

In addition to their report cards, Talia and Kayli got the results of the Iowa Basic Skills test they took earlier in the year. They both scored in the 99th percentil. I guess I can’t ask for more than that! I told them they needed to keep up the hard work so they can get a college scholarship.

My photo made the top 50 downloads this week!

I recently started working to get my photos approved on stock photography sites. Someone I met on flickr told me about it and said she makes a good amount of money at it, so I thought I’d give it a try. I’ve been on Shutterstock for a week now and one of my photos is the 41st most download file at that site this week! (I’ve had around 40 downloads of it this week.) I’m so excited that my photos there are doing so well. Now I just have to find time to get up more photos.

Here’s a screen capture showing my photo in the top 50.


You can see my entire gallery here.

Gingerbread House


The kids had tons of fun making a gingerbread house last night. I got the kit from Costco. Everything was all made for you and you just had to assemble it. Here’s the finished product.

Jared and Riley’s Preschool Show


Jared and Riley had their preschool Christmas show last night. They sang two songs, “Away in a Manger” and “Open My Eyes to Your Heart Lord”. Jared and Riley both did great! They sang the songs and did the hand motions too. I was so proud of them! This morning when I dropped them off at school, their teacher told me how proud she was of them. She said that the twins had never done the hand motions in the practices so she was thrilled to see them doing the hand motions during the show.

Christmas Choir Concert


Talia and Kayli had their Christmas choir concert last night. They both did a great job! They knew all the words to all the songs they sang, which is more than I can say for all the kids in the choir. They choir sounded lovely and everyone enjoyed the performance.