Holiday Activities

Apple Pie

Oh Yea!!!  It’s a Deep Dish Apple Pie!  Made by my daughter!!  She is in her second year of Family and Consumer Science class….(Home Ec. for us old timers) and had an assignment to make a pie at home.  She had to use the pie crust recipe from school (double batch for this beauty) and we picked my Mom’s family recipe.  The pie came out great, and we all enjoyed it quite a bit.  She did not whine too much while doing all of this….a real treat for me!!  We even managed to use up all the apples we had left from our family Apple picking trip.

Middle School Flute and Brass Ensembles

Took this quick photo after the kids finished performing at our local SAMS club.  Looks like they had a great time.  Each group played for about fifteen minutes, and then the kids received free pizza and a drink.  This happens right after school is over, so they don’t miss any classes.  There have been so many concerts lately that rehearsals have caused many classes to be excused.  Why am I the only one complaining about that???  LOL   Tomorrow several of the girls will be back at SAMS to perform with OPUS which is the girls Select Choir.  Sadly Trevor was sent home from school sick today so he and I did not get to see the actual performance.  Maybe we will tomorrow!

It goes on like THIS!!

We had Christmas tree decorating.  As you can see it went very well!  Love how those decorating tips get passed down from family member to family member!  Warms me right up.

Little Brother Prevails

Good job Trevor!!!  He is our tree guard…..keeps the tree safe from all threats…be they feline or sibling.

We opted to use almost all unbreakable ornaments this year.  It’s Lyra’s first Christmas.  Oddly though the cats seem to be reversing position….Lyra is being very good, and Cassini is trying to climb higher than she managed last year.  Thank goodness there is only seven more days!

Home For The Holidays at The Roberson

The kids had a really fun dance out at The Roberson Museum.  We were able to lend most of the girls solo dresses for the day.  The museum requested them to be really dressed up!  They had lots of fun, and danced for an hour and a half!

Well there is still lots of sewing work going on!  Drafting up the patterns for the Duffy School dresses.  That is going very well.  Getting the embroidery finalized for that as well.  It’s nice to take a break from the work to enjoy all of the holiday activities with the kids.  Trevor has a holiday party at his Karate Studio on Monday as well as his class party that same day.  Only one more year of those for him!  He just mentioned yesterday that he is starting to look forward to Middle School!!  Happy Holidays everyone!!