This was our New Year's Eve project. It's a 500 piece puzzle. Alia took the photo of the finished piece and she was our helper. Tanner & Elena each did their own, smaller puzzles.

We paused mid-puzzle to celebrate with ice cream and/or root beer floats. It was a fun evening!

Happy 2010!

Here are a few pictures from our trip to the farm:

Tanner at the tree. He decorated the branch with the little wooden people. He was very pleased. The branch was very glad the wooden people aren't heavy!










Christmas morning. Everyone in the family was up at a reasonable, if early, time! (I don't remember what everyone is gesturing at! :)











Back at home, Alia loved her new bookcase. It has been stocked with her "library"!


And, wouldn't you know! Santa gave the youngest child the reddest chapstick! We wiped red chapstick off her face for days!



Happy Holidays to you all, and best wishes for the new year!

We started a new tradition with Christmas cards this year.

Everyone signs their name (mostly by themselves!). We add stickers and address labels (stamps came the next day) and lick the envelopes.

Ta-da! Christmas cards ready to mail. And, it was fun!

:)

The creches were all placed,
With great handfuls of care,
By children who knew
Who went here,
Which went there.


(Sorry for the poetic liberties!)

Here are two of the helpers. By this point in the program the third had escaped to her book on her bed!