December

Where has the month gone?? I cannot believe it is almost Christmas and we will be in Texas soon-yay!! I have to catch up before going so that I can flood the blog with pics from Texas when we return. :) Here is the month in review so far...

December Nights at Balboa Park:

Menorah lighting at Chabad Hebrew Academy with Jerry and Rita. (our neighbors) They even had snow brought in and the boys got to try sledding. Luke loved it!

We celebrated a couple of 4th birthday parties:

Luke's school had their annual La Posada and his class was Angels. :) We also went out to dinner and visited some fun Christmas lights with Melody:

Ian discovered that he loves riding the fire truck with Nathan and loves playing (torturing) with Violet.

We visited the schools I used to teach at and got to climb all over the new iguana at Ibarra.

We had a fabulous time visiting Legoland with the Fuzaks and Virtues-such a fun place!!

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Luke's school has a feast every year and his class was the pilgrim group again... fun every year!

  

Thank you, Mrs. Koza!!

Today was Luke's last day of school! (and pajama day :)) What an amazing year it has been for him. He was blessed with a fabulous teacher and great friends in his class. Thank you, Mrs. Koza!

First day of preschool:

Last day of preschool:

Grandparent's Day

Luke celebrated Grandparent's Day at his preschool last week and was one of the special kids in the class to have several Grandparents able to be there. My mom was even in town so Luke had 3 with him! What a blessing!

       

Merry Christmas!

Luke celebrated La Posada at his preschool last week. His class got to sing "Happy Birthday" to Jesus. It was really cute and he is such a great singer! Merry Christmas to all our family and friends! I will be posting much more when we return from Texas!

Hmmm...Halloween was how long ago?

Just catching up with Halloween Pictures. It was a great one! We had so many fun opportunities for costume wearing-the boys LOVED it! It is so nice to have them grow up and really get into the holidays. :)

Luke had a costume parade at his school and then they performed some Halloween songs for all of us...too cute! Nate wanted to join in the singing. :)

After Luke's costume parade, we went to Nate's mommy and me class where we had another costume parade and trick or treating in the offices. My little "Baby Jaguar" was so cute, even without his head on.   

This is Corey, his parents, and the boys at Luke's preschool Halloween Happening (carnival). Lots of fun, prizes, games, and sweets!!   

The actual day of Halloween, we had a costume birthday party for our friend, Jack. (the little Pooh Bear below) The boys had a fun time jumping in the bounce house, meeting "Pooh" and Luke even found his counterpart, Dora. :)

That night was finally trick or treating time. (or as Luke says, "Frick or Freat!") Nathan had a little bit of a hard time at first...he didn't quite understand that he couldn't eat the candy right away. He got into it after the first few houses. :)      

I just had to share this picture (even though it is smoky) because this woman had her arm out to keep the kids away from the fire...my sweet boy, Luke, thought she wanted a hug so he walked right up to her and hugged her. I loved it!!