Christmas Card Outtakes

We returned to the small forest glade to shoot our Christmas picture this morning.

Here are some of the outtakes.

Thankskid'ing

Thanks again to the Martels for hosting another fantastic frousin feast this Thanksgiving!

Afternoon in Dallas I

I took these pictures Wednesday during and between two tech rehearsals. During her break, I took Katharine to a special exhibit at the DMA where we had some time to sketch, too.









A Matisse still life of flowers from the exhibit "Bouquets"
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Before Tech Rehearsal III

I took these pictures before today's tech rehearsal, the third one this week.










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Old Cats

Pepper and Marmalade.

More Gwen and Lukas

Gwen and Lukas helped load and drop off over 100 Christmas a Child boxes this week!




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Gwen and Lukas

Gwen stayed the night, and they were both knitting when I snapped these pics.

Check back in 70 years and see if they are still together doing that :)

Warm-ups

Katharine will be in and out of rehearsals until 9 PM tonight, and Friday evening will be her debut on the big stage at the Winspear.

Exciting times!

November Trails

Me and the kids went on a 7 mile bike ride this morning. 

We were searching for some horses to feed, but found this cool park instead.

That reminds me- we need to shoot our Christmas pics soon!

Wind Power

The hair was blowing,

The leaves were falling,

The dresses were lifting,

Winter is calling.

I didn't mean to write a poem, but after the second line it just kind of turned into one..

Form Drawing

Katharine was passing notes to Iria during church today.

The bottom picture is a profile of herself, so I held it up and did a comparison.

Pretty good!

Lego interlude

Bow and magic wand constructed with Lego.

Star Student

Keira picked up one of the first Star Student awards of the school year on Friday.

But whoever filled this out is going to get a fail for their spelling...

And sister too..

So Kassidy insisted on getting her picture taken when she saw Keira's post.

Cute kid! Cure dress!

Good idea, Kassidy.

Making Waves

Keira had her hair in braids yesterday so today she was sporting the waves.

I like the look on her.

3rd Grade Bible Retreat, Singing for the Elderly, 3rd Grade Bible Presentation

This was a big weekend for the kids. Friday night, Lukas got to go to the 3rd grade Bible a Retreat, I volunteered during the event, which was so much fun for the third graders with t-shirt decorating, a scavenger hunt through church ( yes, I hid the clues, some not so easy to find), a short bible lesson, dinner, dessert and games! I took the picture of one of the stained glass windows in the dark sanctuary.

Saturday morning the Living Proof Youth Choir went to sing and socialize and a local nursing home. They did a great job and brought some big smiles to the faces of the residents there, all Alzheimer's patients. Kassidy and I tagged along, too. Katharine is the one on the far left in blue.

This morning, Sunday, Lukas got his 3rd grade Bible in the 11 o'clock service. The Joyful Noise Choir (Keira is in that one, for kindergarten and 1st graders) and Glorious Praise Choir (Lennon and Lukas' choir for 2nd -5th grade) sang the books of the Bigle songs for the occasion.

Keira is the one in the center of the second row.