Tegan's Christmas Program

Tegan has been attending preschool 3 days a week for a while now.  This allows me to substitute on those days.  It is a Christian preschool and we have been pleased with it so far!  His teacher is very sweet!  On Tuesday this week, the preschool had their annual Christmas program. 

The songs they sang were different from any that I had ever heard and were so cute!  Tegan sang all the songs, but was a bit reserved in doing the hand motions. 

 In this song they are bowing down at the manger of Jesus.

 His little hands are praying.

After the program, he got a celebratory candy cane! 

 Here he is with his sweet teacer, Miss Cindy.

Merry Christmas!

Unwelcome Visitor!

Saturday, I found an unwelcome visitor in the dog food container!

I am a pretty brave girl.  Snakes, spiders, and other creepy things don't usually scare me (except bats).  This guy did!  It was very dark in the garage when I scooped out a big bowl of food and saw this little thing jumping up the side of the container trying to get out! I screamed a lot and very loudly!  Thankfully, I have one brave little 4 1/2 year old boy who held the flashlight while I captured our visitor and released it outside. 

Davian remained safely in the house! 

Celebrating the Season

Right before Thanksgiving, Tegan and I joined Davian's class in their Thanksgiving celebration.  Davian even made Tegan a placemat for him to feast on!  Tegan doesn't look too thrilled here, but he really did have a good time, I promise you!

We spent a quiet Thanksgiving at home.  Black Friday, we went to Sacramento to visit IKEA and ended up in historical Sacramento.  We had a great time and even took a horse and carriage ride.

After we got home, the boys helped get the Christmas tree out and started decorating.  Davian was a good helper this year!  Tegan was not so interested.



Every year, the boys pick out a new ornament for the tree.  We put their names and the year on it.  When they have families of their own they will have a box of ornaments from their childhood.  I know that when I pull out my ornaments from when I was a child, it is so fun to remember Christmases past.  This year we actually had enough ornaments on the tree that we didn't have to use any of the silver balls that I usually have to add in! 

Since Thanksgiving, we have celebrated the Christmas season with the lighting of the community Christmas tree and the Christmas parade.  It was our first ever nighttime parade.  The boys LOVED it!

What parade is complete without a llama and camel?

Merry Christmas!