Magical Strings

Last night Trinity and I had the pleasure of attending the 34th Annual Magical Strings concert in Bellevue. It was a teeny tiny theatre and a very intimate performance space that allowed for us to be right up close. It was a celtic Christmas complete with a processional where we got to dress up and join the performers on stage! The Irish dancers were Trinity's favorite. She was positively enraptured at one point getting a note book out to right arrows left and right in order to help her remember "the moves". How cute is that? She fell back in her chair with wonder when I tall young man came dancing out on stage. (mom rolls eyes). The dress costumes put her over the moon. Here are vids and pics of our fabulous time, thank you Nee nee and Granda for the tickets!

 girls night!

 waiting to begin, believe it or not she was writing down facts about France = running out of time for extra credit report. I'm not a mean mom! really!

 she found a drum

the fabulous Collen Raney

the amazingly sparkly dress costumes. Lame camera.

Snowflake Lane 2012

I am just a sucker for taking the kids to this. It's free people! Herein I give you video evidence of how much fun they have. =) Even Isaac was old enough to enjoy this year. He didn't seem scared of the noise nor super smiley just gazing around taking it all in. He's a chill character.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQwUE5E0qGI&feature=share&list=UUS7pLCW9fny1VDyw_Yjv8Vw

copy and paste the above link to see video of snowflake lane

This blog is doing some really weird things today so if you go to this video it should take you to my channel where you can watch two more (for the grandmas). Sorry I didn't get them on here.

Pumpkin Chunkin

Hello all, we have been busy! The school year sails on, we had parent/teacher conferences and I was very excited by the kids' progress. Trinity had a rough year academically and socially last year with the baby and moving. Things have really smoothed out for her this year and I am so thankful that the rough patch seems to be over. Blake's teacher says he is a "smartie-pants" and she wasn't referring to his attitude so it's all good. We spent an amazing few days with my sister and her family as they joined us for Thanksgiving. We were also joined by Jeremy's brother Zach. It was so funny because we played pictionary and the brothers were horrible! She posted pictures on her facebook page and I took zilch. Pathetic I know. I cooked my first turkey start to finish and it turned out perfectly, yay me! Nat and I went and got reflexology messages (she had never been before). Ahhh..great way to end a busy weekend. The holiday season carries on however and Jeremy and I remembered to record one of our Thanksgiving weekend funnies, the annual Punkin' Chunkin' contest! Seven categories of machines (man-powered, trebuchet, air cannon, catapults, torsion, centripetal, and tension) are built every year by teams from all over the nation and brought to Delaware to compete for these silly wooden carved trophies to be the farthest "Pumpkin Chunker" for the year in their division. These people are hard core about this. This was also the first year they showed the children's division. Trinity was immediately demanding that we make our own. I was trying to shut her down because I sure as heck wasn't going to help her with the project but Jeremy was all up in arms that I would "dare to block her creativity and interest in science". . .so off they went. One shoe box, bag of rubber bands, spatula, and measuring cup later they had a mini tension machine launching trin's squishy piggy ball. So without further eloquence I give you. . .Pumkpin Chunkin 2012 Diviney Style. Now, we plan to expand on this first simple project next year. We may even have a Thanksgiving contest that may or may not include mini machines of our own devising that will shoot leftover Halloween Brachs brand pumpkins. Yum! the battle is on. . . .