Pictures from the Cerneka Christmas in Belleville, mid-December or so! It was extra-special as it was Kaitlyn's first Christmas!
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Christmas Day
We spent Christmas night and day at Mom and Dad's with the rest of Clan Ramsay. It was awesome to all be together for the holiday. These are pictures from Christmas day and evening, including some Guitar Hero, some Christmas crackers and paper hats, and a little Elefun the Elephant.
Christmas Morning
Here are finally some pictures from Christmas! These are from Christmas eve night and Christmas morning at Mom and Dad's.
The kids on Christmas morning, before presents. The crappy photo is a thing of the past, by the way, thanks to my fabulous new camera. I will be debuting pictures from my new camera soon!
This picture doesn't even do the madness justice.
Madeleine's Santa present - a Cherry Blossom Market, and Noah's - a Thomas pop-up tent that was massively bigger than I thought it would be. It took up a quarter of the room.
Stockings!
Helping Noah open his present from the Pucketts - his own apron with his name on it and a kids cookbook.
Playing with and reading various Christmas presents.
Trying to get the kids to relax and get sleepy. It didn't work, but it made for a cute picture.
The kids on Christmas morning, before presents. The crappy photo is a thing of the past, by the way, thanks to my fabulous new camera. I will be debuting pictures from my new camera soon!
This picture doesn't even do the madness justice.
Madeleine's Santa present - a Cherry Blossom Market, and Noah's - a Thomas pop-up tent that was massively bigger than I thought it would be. It took up a quarter of the room. 
Stockings!
Helping Noah open his present from the Pucketts - his own apron with his name on it and a kids cookbook.
Playing with and reading various Christmas presents.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Preschool Christmas Party
Our preschool's Christmas party is always a fun, low-key event. People bring food, a wrapped ornament for each kid (for Santa to hand out) and we visit and eat while the kids play with play doh and make little craft projects. Santa makes an appearance, the kids wander over to visit with him, and it's all very comfortable and low-key.
Noah and the Man. Noah was actually the first kid to get up on his lap, which is unusual for him. He's not shy, buy he usually checks things out before jumping in like that.
Madeleine and the Man.
Madeleine helps Miss Sherri open her Christmas present.
Noah at the play-doh, of course.
Miss Sherri reads a Jan Brett book to Madeleine and fellow 4 year old Grace.
Noah and the Man. Noah was actually the first kid to get up on his lap, which is unusual for him. He's not shy, buy he usually checks things out before jumping in like that.
Madeleine and the Man.
Madeleine helps Miss Sherri open her Christmas present.
Noah at the play-doh, of course.
Miss Sherri reads a Jan Brett book to Madeleine and fellow 4 year old Grace.November and December catch-up
So here are some pictures from the some odds and ends that happened in November and December.
The comedy club performance on Saturday night of the conference. The opening number required tacky Christmas sweaters, and after looking around on eBay and at Goodwill, I thought, I can do way better than that. So, we dug out the picture of Homer in the Santa hat from two years ago, blew it up and turned it into an iron-on transfer, added some green and red pompoms and jingle bells and voila! - our very own tacky sweater! The best part was the back, which said, "Meow-y Christmas". Orin wore a sweater vest he found at Cracker Barrel sans shirt. You will thank me for not posting a photo of that.
Orin, Erin, and the kids at the Shrine when Oddwalk played for the Way of Lights.
Shannon and Madeleine getting down with their bad selves at the WoL.
Madeleine and Granpa after her Christmas dance show.
We got to watch Maia for a few hours while her parents indulged in their gambling vice in Booneville during the Christmas holiday week. The first thing she did was put that cheerleading dress and sunglasses on. She wore the dress all night.
"Super Noah, to the resuce!"
Just hanging out, in too-small footie pajamas, wearing a hat, like you do.
The girl is sound asleep. I mean totally, absolutely, dead to the world, asleep. I was a nice mommy and fixed her, after calling her father in to see and taking this picture.
NCCYM in Cleveland, Ohio. This is Shannon and Orin performing at the Advent concert put on by GIA and World Library.
The comedy club performance on Saturday night of the conference. The opening number required tacky Christmas sweaters, and after looking around on eBay and at Goodwill, I thought, I can do way better than that. So, we dug out the picture of Homer in the Santa hat from two years ago, blew it up and turned it into an iron-on transfer, added some green and red pompoms and jingle bells and voila! - our very own tacky sweater! The best part was the back, which said, "Meow-y Christmas". Orin wore a sweater vest he found at Cracker Barrel sans shirt. You will thank me for not posting a photo of that.
Orin, Erin, and the kids at the Shrine when Oddwalk played for the Way of Lights.
Shannon and Madeleine getting down with their bad selves at the WoL.
Madeleine and Granpa after her Christmas dance show.
We got to watch Maia for a few hours while her parents indulged in their gambling vice in Booneville during the Christmas holiday week. The first thing she did was put that cheerleading dress and sunglasses on. She wore the dress all night.
"Super Noah, to the resuce!"
Just hanging out, in too-small footie pajamas, wearing a hat, like you do.
The girl is sound asleep. I mean totally, absolutely, dead to the world, asleep. I was a nice mommy and fixed her, after calling her father in to see and taking this picture.Happy 3rd Birthday Nathan!
In early November, our nephew Nathan Young turned 3! Here are some pictures from his birthday party in Belleville.
Birthday boy Nathan.
Madeleine gives the pinata a tug. Or as she calls it, a "pie-ya-tah".
Niece Kaitlyn, 8 months.
Noah and a giant cookie.
Granda C's grandkids: Noah, Madeleine, Nathan and Kaitlyn.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Wentzville Holt Indian Band!
Early last Novemeber, Chris called us on a Saturday and asked if we were interested in coming to watch Maggie's band compete at the Mizzou Band Day. We got there just in time to meet Chris and watch her band perform. After the performance, we found Maggie with her buses in the Hearnes parking lot for a short visit. Madeleine loved the guard, and the many different flags they used. For a while after, she played color guard with whatever she could find, usually my broom. Noah enjoyed having the run of the bleachers at Memorial Stadium.
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