Emily art class

Emily end of school artwork

Jacob's 12th bday

Easter

First Red's game of season

Emily's friend's Frozen party

Designer Emily

Emily's holiday artwork

Spirograph dj

Little loomer

Happy Turkey Day!

This year we spent Turkey Day with Mom's side of the family.  I made my very own pumpkin pie from scratch - yum!  The kids made some really cute cards.  One one even from a turkey who didn't want to be cooked!  We truly have so much to be thankful for.  We have God to thank for it all.

Driveway art

Emily is quite the little artist and today she showed us her chalk skills.  We love how she depicts us and our family's love for all to see on the driveway.

Chalk family

Today while the kids were outside playing and riding bikes, Emily decided she wanted to play with chalk.  She made these amazing pictures of our family.  Each member is represented in picture and name.  She is one creative and artsy little girl - we both wonder where she got it from?! 

Emily's latest creations

Emily made an "If I was a nurse" paper at school.  She wrote all about how she'd help people and take care of the babies.  She also made a beautiful picture with oils and watercolor.  It was framed on black paper and looked really great.  She is always drawing something and made a page all about sushi - there's spicy tuna, shrimp roll and even a mystery roll.  She loves to draw it and eat it!  I love seeing everything she makes.

Couponer in the making

It's no secret that Mommy is a couponer, hey it's a hobby with great financial benefits!  While working on my grocery lists tonight Emily sat down with me and took my expired coupons and put them in her "coupon book".  She was so cute about sorting them into categories.  I asked her if she was going to use coupons when she grows up for her family and her answer was "of course, Mommy!  Just like you do!"  That's my girl!  Financial training in progress can happen even at the young age of 8!

Starry Night

Emily channeled her own Vincent van Gogh and came up with her own creation of Starry Night.  It seems we have the quite the little budding artist on our hands!

Snowflakes for Sandy Hook

A few days before Christmas one of the most horrific school shootings took place at Sandy Hook elementary in CT.  20 innocent children and several adults were killed in a senseless act by one man.  The news coverage was everywhere - tv, radio, newspapers.  It was hard not to see it and get lost in the raw emotions of what the people in that town must be feeling.  I could not image losing my child of just 6 or 7 years old or losing my spouse, especially right before the holidays.  When the kids got home from school that day we hugged them a little tighter and counted our blessings even more. 

The principal sent out an email about school security and it included information on "Snowflakes for Sandy Hook" where the PTA of that school was asking for children to make snowflakes and then send them to the school so that they could turn the school into a winter wonderland for the children when it was time for them to go back after the holidays.  The picture below is Emily's snowflake that she proudly made and I mailed in.  We pray that our children and those across this nation remain safe while they are away from us at school.

November artwork by our little artists

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