Well Minnie will not stay out of the tree. She climbs all the way to the top. What are we going to do? I probably shouldn't have put a tree up this year but I thought they need to learn now so that hopefully next year they are better, but I don't know if that is a good plan either.
This year Daniel got a lego board game. They built the ship and each player moves closer to the end of the plank before he has to plung into the water with man eating sharks. They played until each of them had won one round. We then when to the movie thearte to watch 
One of our Christmas traditions is to give each kid a new Christmas ornament that has something to do with the past year. Daniel got a tractor because he wants to be a Tennessee farmer when he grows up. Cameron got Charlie Brown reading a book on a bean bag. Because this is the first year Cameron has wanted to read a good book in his spare time. And Makayla got a minature flute because she has played the flute for almost a year now. This year while Lindsay was working on getting the lights to work on the tree Makayla and I played Christmas song duets with the piano and flute it was really fun to share music together.
We are by ourselves this Thanksgiving. So we bought a small turkey and we aren't going so over board on all the food because it is just us that has to eat all all of it. So we are keeping it small. This picture is of the kids with their soldier ragdolls. We put Lindsay's picture in them. They will be well worn over the next little bit I think. Also we have Max (the dog) who will be turning 4 this Christmas and these are our 3 cats. They have gotten really big.
Heritage Middle school put on Annie Jr. Makayla was on the stage crew. They spent alot of time after school the last two months. She looks happy spite the hard work. She had a lot of fun and made new friends.
We went Trick or Treating with Cameron's friend Ryan and Makayla's friend, Cassandra. They live in the same neighborhood with a sidewalk so we went up there.
