The Button Family: 2008

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Santa's route

The kids set up these houses and made this awesome path on the rooftops using trains to show the route Santa might make on Christmas Eve delivering presents from house to house.

The boys memorized all 46 prepositions...so we had a preposition party!

Garett opened up a bunch of boxes of Christmas decorations. He set the decorations aside and built himself a fort.

Working hard at the Christmas Craft Fair

The kids got to participate in a Craft Fair where they made crafts and sold them to other children. With their money, they got to buy crafts for Christmas presents for their own family. I love this idea of creating and selling and buying for others from the money you earn. They feel like the gifts they give at Christmas truly came from themselves. I love it!

Good deeds

Tate and Marissa took cookies to the men building the house behind our house. They felt pretty proud of themselves. This picture is evidence of the good feelings brought by doing nice things for other people.

Piggyback is our favorite mode of cold transportation.

Lightholder Inventions

Clementine Christmas

Marissa got busted for being on the counter fixing bread and butter.

Delores sitting talking with me at Dad and Delores's house.

My goodlooking husband...yes...making another fire. Are you wondering who the real cub scout is in our family?

Cousin Skylar got to ride with us to Grandma's house for Thanksgiving. We were all in our glory!

Our camo boy

On our way to Kentucky for Thanksgiving, we told Tate we would stop at Cabella's. If you have never been to Cabella's, it is not a store- it is an experience! He was up for it. We didn't really understand fully his preparations, until we were in the store and realized that he dressed for the occasion. His total camo outfit, was a tribute to his love for all things outdoors.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Nighties

Marissa sitting in Grandma's lap. They were both wearing their nighties.

The kids hid in my basket with balls and planned a surprise attack on Mom!!!!

Friday, November 07, 2008

I was about to bound up the stairs to put some things away when I stumbled on a child plopped down in the middle of the stairs.

Marissa came down for breakfast (having slept in her supergirl outfit) with curlers in her hair and with the added accessory of this hat which I thought was hilarious.