Merry Christmas Everybody Say Cheese...

We have had a fabulous Christmas weekend.  Saturday we enjoyed supper and games with GeGe.  This morning we woke up to Santa and snow!  We enjoyed church then had lunch with GeGe and headed to Tulia to visit Nonnie.  It was still snowing when we got home, so Robby and the kids bundled up and headed out for some hood riding.  Now we are enjoying leftovers (yes, I let T.S. eat only potato casserole for supper) and I'm back in my wonderful hoodie-footie pajamas.  The kids are scheming with snow plans for tomorrow.  Merry Christmas from the Bows!

One down side to riding the car hood--snow is blown into your face. 

We didn't do a good job of protecting T.S.'s face from the blowing snow (I was not quite prepared).  We did, however, manage to stuff T.S.'s size 3 foot into a size 12 snow boot.

Merry Christmas from the Family (Feliz Navidad....Noel, Noel)

Electric guitar--T.S. has everything packed and ready to go for lessons tomorrow--only problem:  we aren't sure if we have them or not.

Pink perfume and a James Avery charm bracelet--Santa knows where to shop!

Sadie and Robby (along with Kenli, Rylee and Craig) played two songs at church this morning.

Serious discussion with GeGe before heading out into the cold.

Gingerbread Houses

The kids constructed and decorated gingerbread houses yesterday.  Every time we do this, it reminds me of the year Jennifer and Nonnie made one from scratch.  PaPa ended up nailing it together--with real nails.

Christmas at Mom's

The Spivey crew was up for a few days last week.  We enjoyed playing cards, Apples to Apples, and making cookies.  Jim and his bunch came up one evening to celebrate Christmas. It sure was fun to have everyone together.

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

The previous post is untitled--Blogger and I aren't getting along so well. 

Sadie was Imogene Herdman in "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever."  The 5th and 6th grades presented it.  These pictures are from dress rehearsal--because of the weather, I was afraid we wouldn't have school on performance day, and somebody thought it'd be a good idea for me to run the lights.  We did have school, the kids did a fantastic job, and I didn't mess the lights up too badly.

T.S. started the month with a trip to The Grand to see Santa.

He was a shepherd in our church Christmas Pageant.

He saw Santa again at church.

Sadie unwillngly saw Santa at church--hope she doesn't get coal.

Our pageant was complete with sheep.  All of the kids get to pick what part they'll be in the program, then they come up with their costumes.

Thankful

Thankful for this girl!

 



Thankful for this little Indian!



 





We are thankful!  Thankful for our family, our health, our friends, our school...the list goes on and on.  We are so proud of the kids.  Sadie competed in a lamb jackpot a few weekends ago--she walked away with reserve grand champion and champion junior showmanship.  (I even pulled the gooseneck trailer to Happy and back home without incident.)  Sadie competed in UIL last week.  She worked very hard on all of her events.  She was on the second place Art Smart team, 1st place calculator team, and 2nd place listening skills team.  As an individual, she was 2nd in calculator and 4th in listening.

T.S. was very brave and participated in UIL storytelling.  Although he didn't place, we were proud of his effort and commitment.  As you can see, he was an Indian at the annual Thanksgiving feast at school.  Notice "SWAT" on the back of his vest--we are thankful for his creativity. 

Take time to count your blessings.  Happy Thanksgiving from the Bows!

Science project

Sadie finished her science project--they were to build a model of something that couldn't fit into the classroom.  She chose a hot air balloon.  The paper-mache portion took longer than expected, but she finally finished it, and we thought it turned out quite well.  (I think the passenger is a great finishing touch!)

 

Halloween!! (finally)

Duck Tape Zombie ready for the Halloween Carnival

pumpkin carving Halloween afternoon

Baseball before Trick-or-Treating

The Spa Girls

Football and the Fair

T.S. had his first flag football game Saturday--he said it was fun.  He does a great job "blocking."  I use the term roughly since no contact is supposedly allowed when you block.  We then spent the day at the Tri-State Fair in Amarillo.  Sadie had a fantastic day.   She showed four lambs and placed in the top 8 with all of them.  Our friends--Alisa, Gracie, Luke and Jake--all had a great day as well.  It was fun to be with our Happy Show Crew.

T.S. is number 5.

Joe placed 1st in his class.

Lucy was 2nd. (She--Lucy, not Sadie--also peed on my foot.)

Sadie and Lucy at the end of a long day.