The second weekend of January we had a great visit from Grandpa Dave! We all had a great time hanging out, reading stories, eating Michael's pizza, going to the Dinosaur Museum and just playing with Grandpa. Everymorning, Spencer would ask, "Is Poppy Dave still at my house?"
For her birthday, Catherine wanted to have an old-fashioned tea party. So the girls dressed up and we served lunch and hot chocolate (instead of tea.)
Catherine entered the Reflections contest at school and her painting won for her age division! The theme was, "My favorite place" and Catherine painted a picture of her picking tomatos in her Grandma's garden.
Cath and Emma with Abby wearing aprons and dresses my mom made for us 25 years ago. They had a fun doll-cookie party with Grandma a few days before Christmas.
Stairs picture at Grandma's. Spencer and his drill that he got from Santa at our house and brought with him.
I have to admit that I didn't buy any presents for David this year. Frankly, he wasn't expecting anything and I feel like we already have plenty of toys for him to enjoy. Catherine was really concerned about the fact that I didn't buy him anything, so she made him some alphabet cards. It was really sweet. And fortunately he at least got this present from Grandma, but as we all predicted (having seen it a few times in the past) he was most excited about playing with all the wrapping paper. :)
Aren't we cute? Besides being Christmas Eve, this was a special day in our family for other reasons - it was the day that Michael was put in the Bishopric (kind of like an associate pastor) at Church. Also, notice Spencer's styling outfit as it's probably the one and only time you'll ever see it. I saved it for Christmas and it was already too small. That little barrel chest was busting out of the vest. We decided he looked like a luchador in formal dress. (Also, I did not shoot my eye out with a new Red Ryder BB Gun. I had a sun-spot frozen and it scabbed over just intime for Christmas pictures!)
