Kira's Quartet from the Christmas Concert

At the Christmas concert, Kira got to perform in a little quartet.  The camera cut out just before the end of the song, so it's in two pieces.  Boo.

Great job, Kira!

Kira's Orchestra Christmas Concert

Like every December, Kira's orchestra at Joel P. Jensen Middle School held a Christmas Concert.  It is so nice to go to her concerts now...I'll admit they were a bit painful to listen to when she fist started out with violin several years ago.  Just sayin'...

Our Belated Christmas With the Rest of the Kids

A couple of days after Christmas when Katelyn and Kira were back from their dad's in Texas and Colton, Bryson, and Chey were up to visit, we had the rest of our Christmas.  We love having everyone together.  Here's Colton with his Shakespeare book...

Bryson with his Big Bang Theory T-shirt...

Kira, Bryson, Maya, Me, CheyAnn, and Colton...

Chey in her monkey hat (Kira got a matching one)...

Bryson and his new drum heads...

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Christmas Day 2012

OK...so in my continuing quest to get caught up on this blog...we have gotten to Christmas 2012 (I am only 6 months behind now...not bad!!!).  For Christmas all we had was our little Maya-boo.  It was a quiet day, but nice.

Like any 2 year old, Maya enjoyed opening the presents...

We got her this little interactive game...it's kind of like a toddler tablet.  She loved it!

Apparently I put the camera on the wrong setting when I tried to get this shot of Maya and Daddy opening a present.  Bummer :(

Daddy made these homemade tamales...made in a muffin tin.  (Thank you, Pinterest.)  They were yummy!

I am pretty sure in the afternoon we went over to Grandma and Granddad Needles' house, but quite frankly I can't remember what I did yesterday, let alone six months ago!  All the more reason to get this blog caught up so that I can stay current and remember some details!!! :)