My little Pianist

I am SO PROUD of Nina! She had her first piano recital and did fabulous!! She was nervous at first but it didn't show a bit and when it was all over she said, "That wasn't as bad as I thought it would be!"

Here she is with Ms. Phyllis. She says she is very talented and picking it up quickly.

I can't figure out how to upload her video onto my blog....: (  I'll keep trying and then post it when I can....

We are so proud of her!

Three Thanksgivings and a Birthday

Thanksgiving began with Nana and family at the Ramada. 

So glad that Dave, Christy and Sophie could join us and Grandmother is still doing great!! 99 in a couple weeks!

The Ingle Family. They're pretty cool people ; )

We headed back to Nana's house...

Nina and Dallas helped Aunt Christy and Aunt Melinda make a gingerbread house. It was a lot of work!  

Isn't it lovely....?

Dallas spent some special time with Grandmother. She loves having his company. Her youngest great grandbaby.

Later, all the kids crashed Grandma's room to watch her new TV.

Me and Linda. Love my Mother-in-law!

Then it was off to Grammie's for Thanksgiving #2.

Somehow I lost the picture of us all around the table.  I have no idea what happened to it! I'm really bummed...

But here we are decorating the Christmas tree and having Cupcakes.

My baby boy turned 3 the day after Thanksgiving! I can't believe it!

Here he is shooting Grammie with his new space gun.

 

He got lots of goodies. His guitar is his favorite. Thanks Gramnie.

Silly Nina

Then it's off to Tio and Shanna's for Thanksgiving #3!

Dallas passed out on the way.

Here we all are with Grandpa and Debbie.

Big kids table..

Little kids table..

And to finish off the holiday...

Rock band at Grandpa's!

 Oh! Here is a picture of Dallas with his birthday donut.

So thankful for all of my family!!

Last day of Archway Classes

This was our first semester at Archway. The kids had such a good time. I'm so glad we found this group.

Aidan took a journalism class. This was his class and his teacher Mrs. Deanna.

 He was pretty proud of his newspaper.

He wrote an article with his buddy AJ about Thanksgiving.

 

Nina took a history class. She was Clara Barton here....

 

 

She also took a cooking class. She really loved them both! I think it really helped her open up!

Dallas took a music class. 

He got to keep his Lumi sticks...

 And he got a cookie : )

It was such a good experience and we can't wait to start back again in January!

Nina Bean and Me

Last weekend, Nina and I got away from the boys for a little while. We had some time to kill while waiting to set up for a vendor fair. It was at a vineyard. Made for a pretty photo op!

I'm glad we could spend some alone time together. She's a good girl and growing up fast!

Monkeys

My little monkeys! They will climb a tree whenever they get a chance.

He's a pro.  He has no fear and will go as high as he can.

Nina is a little more cautious. : )

He did not want his picture taken!

Has to do what the big kids are doing!

Silly Boys

While waiting on Nina at her piano lesson I decided to get some shots of my boys.  

I told Aidan to lie down next to the flowers.  It looked better in my head... He thought it was hilarious how his arm was coming out of his ear.

It's so hard to get a good picture of the both of them.  It's rather funny...

 They really show their personality!

 

Dallas is saying, "Let me go!"

Cute kids.  Are they really mine?

I give Aidan a hard time about how his eyes disappear  when he smiles. I told him to give me big eyes and no teeth.  He thought that was funny, of course and gave me the opposite.

So he tried on my pretty, purple glasses.

Sweet boy. Almost 3!

Now, THAT'S a good one!!

So proud to call them my sons. : )