Advent Gathering

Sunday was the first Sunday in Advent so we had lots going on at Church, we had the family stations that we went to , we made a family craft, help with bags for the homeless and had story time, then we had dinner with all of the familes, last but not least we had the annual Children's nativity.  Ayla was a beautiful angel and Addison was Joseph, this was Addison's last year for it....sniff, sniff!!

Oh Christmas Tree!!

We are all decorated and ready to go!

Happy Anniversary Uncle Joe and Aunt Karen

On Saturday we attended a surprise 40th Anniversary Party for Uncle Joe and Aunt Karen Kutscherenko!! They had all of their kids and grandkids to celebrate.  We hadn't seen lots of them for awhile so it was good to catch up, luckily it was a beautiful day and the kids ran around outside the entire day.  Here are some of the cousins Wyatt, Luke, Sydnee, Tiarra, Amari, Myia, Jack, Addison and Brady, I think there is an extra boy in here , I dont' know his name?>

They are a wild bunch hard to get them to stay together, but I like them all because they looked like they were having fun!!

Oops forgot Ayla in the others...

wild kids... 

silly faces..

The stunning bride!! Not sure where Uncle Joe was??

**Thanksgiving Day 2**

On Friday we had Thanksgiving at Grandma Beth and Grandpa John's.  It was the normal Thanksgiving and family time, this year Myia decided to do Makeover's with the little girls, Ashlynn and Ayla.. Here is the before picture..

Jack and Addison didn't want to be left out...

Wow, look how.......pretty???

A close up of the beautiful girls.... It took Ayla a day and a half to get all of the makeup off!!

Surprise Jack did it as well, but he did NOT want his picture taken so this is the best I could get.. he also had heels and a dress!!

Ayla was fighting to stay awake, Ashlynn looked read to go!!

Wearing down!

Patrick Thanksgiving

Addison and Ayla relaxing after lunch!

Ronnie, Linda, Dave and Grandpa Patrick playing cards.

Ayla had the camera.. Grandpa Patrick..

Ayla had the camera again, I had food in my mouth..

Joanne and Dave

Ronnie, Dave, and Joanne

Ayla and Steve

On Thursday, we traveled over to Grandma Patricks for Thanksgiving.  We had a great visit it was a fun day catching up with all of the Patrick Family!!

All I want for Christmas is ...... My Two Front Teeth

Mrs. Lacy pulled his other front tooth!!!!!!!!!!!

Braxton's 4!

On Saturday we went to Braxton's Birthday Party!! We were double booked so we didn't get to stay that long which was a bummer....

We had plans to have youth from church watch all of our kids while the adults had dinner together. 

 It was a great plan and we had fun except we hit a deer on the way and my new to me pilot is not not driveable... When I first bought my CRV I hit a deer in November and had to have it repaired as well.. Hopefully the repair guy will call tomorrow and tell us it will be fixed quickly!! 

Poor little Ayla has a bad cold her nose is running so bad and she is coughing constantly.  I can't remember a time when she has so little sleep at night! I slept with her ( well sat in her bed while she coughed all night last night) Adam's is off tomorrow so hopefully with one more day of rest she will feel much better!!! ( and no one else will get it..??)

Tooth #3!!

Thursday I looked at Addison and saw how snaggled his tooth was.... We worked and worked on it!

He decided he wanted to wait until he was at school and then he can get a treasure chest to put it in!! So he waited and Mrs. Lacy another Kindergarten teacher pulled it out with her magic tissue!!

He had a hair appointment after school and Diane, ( the wonderful lady that does his hair) also gave him money for loosing his tooth!! How spoiled are we??  And the tooth fairy came and left the tooth and treasure box like Addison wanted!

Mom's Day at Preschool

Today I was able to take off half a day and spend time with Ayla in her Cookie Monster Room for Mom's Day, It was lots of fun!! Miss Holly said Ayla was a good listener, quiet, friends with everyone and always polite just like her brother!! She said they have many of the same qualities, Ayla is a little more outgoing than her brother but she NEVER gets in trouble!! It was fun to see Ayla with all of her friends and making all kinds of things for Thanksgiving!! We made, books, hats, turkey's and necklaces!!

Conference Fun

This year at parent teacher conferences there were fun stations set up in the gym for children to do with parents.  Adam and Addison got to do them on Tuesday! Addison loved playing in the gym with Dad!

Thursday he was able to show his sister as well!!

Updates...

Addison made it through his first 9 weeks!!  He did GREAT on his report card and got two awards at the Awards Assembly!! One is called Enormous Effort and the other was for a Great Job in Physical Education Class!  We are so proud of him!! He also did a great job singing this morning at church! 


Ayla is doing great in school, haven't got her report card yet..  But she is doing GREAT in gymnastics, the coach wanted to move her up two classes!!  We are going to just try one for now, she is moving up to Level 2! She loves it and looks so little flipping around!!


Last week was a busy week..... Thursday on my way home I got a phone call from mom saying my Grandpa was in ER.  I went to the hospital and he was in ICU having surgery.  He was in lots of pain and had a bad hyernia (sp?)  it was pinching off his intestine and he ended up having 8 inches of dead intestine removed and did well during the surgery which we were so pleased about!!  He is off of the ventalator and doing well at this point, but it was a scary evening, since his lungs are not in very good shape.