Life with our little family of 3...

This year Emma decided to participate in the International Fair with CHoSS. (Christian Homeschoolers of the South Sound) She decided back in the fall to do Haiti. She picked Haiti because we had been reading a story that had a new girl in school who was from Haiti. Also a friend of her's father lived in Haiti for several years. Little did we know at the time only months later that country would be devastated by a earthquake. It was a good learning lesson for Emma though. She saw how kids in other countries live which is very different that she does. She did such a great job with her board! She also did a great job at the fair telling people what she learned about Haiti. We were both very proud of her! Great job Emma!

Our Dog Mac has the life! The other night Emma asked to sleep in our bed. I went to go to bed and this is what I found. Actually I found Mac sleeping all stretched out and covered up with his head on her. Between him and Emma, there was no room for Robert or I! Apparently she called him up there after I tucked her in. And this is what I found the next morning... Sometimes I wish I could be a dog...

Ok so we don't have any snow here at home so we decided to go find some! So we took a trip up to the mountains for a day of sledding! There were a lot of people there and it was snowing pretty hard at times, even sideways! But we had a blast anyway! What could be more fun than a day in the snow with the people you love?!

So Emma woke up at 4:00 am thanks to the cat! Since we are cat & dog sitting, we decided to put the cats in the office so they didn't scare away Santa (meaning - destroy the presents and wrapping!). Well they didn't like that too much so they meowed and pawed at the doors very loudly to protest. So I got up to let them out and cover up the presents. Emma also heard all the commotion and decided that she wanted to see if Santa had come yet. I convinced her to go back to bed before she made it to the living room. I knew that if she had seen that he had come, there was no way she was going back to bed. So we laid in her bed for 3 hours dozing in and out of sleep until she bolted upright and said "It's 7:10am! Santa came!". And up she jumped to wake Robert. As parents we hope that Christmas morning is all that our children hope for... and again it was... Santa brought her Gwen's bunk bed behind her, Guess Who Extra and some neat things for her stocking. We g...

We have a friend, Gary who visits us a few times a year. Whenever he comes to visit, Robert and him usually play Axis & Allies. This time Emma really wanted to play too! Though she wanted to be on Gary's team... which were the bad guys... the Germans! But she had fun and maybe someday she'll use some of this knowledge...?

Here is our Christmas tree! Emma decorated most of it this year! She is getting so big! I remember when she could on get the very bottom row.

We finally had a little bit of snow the other day. So Emma went out as soon as she could to make her first snowman. She made this one all by herself! She was really sad when the snow started to melt later the same day. She keeps asking when we're going to have snow again. Not soon enough for the both of us!