It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

December in Enid has been COLD! We have had snow twice already and high temperatures in the teens at least a couple of days a week -- ugh! I am definitely hoping for some warmer weather when we arrive in Louisiana later this week.

Jamison and Grayson are thrilled about Christmas (as most kids are)...Jamison's list is never ending. Grayson, on the other hand, has only asked for a few things, one of which was a cat. As most of you know, poor Gray has had all kinds of allergies, most of them food related. I explained to him that he is allergic to cats so that he wouldn't be able to have one. Without hesitating, he replies, "No, Mommy, not to eat it...to pet it!" Good news on the food allergies though....he has finally outgrown all of his food allergies! Yea!

I am attaching a picture of Jamison and three of her best friends, Mikaela, Rebekah, and Emme. It was taken last week at our school's Christmas program. All are students in my 1st grade class. As usual, Grayson was much too busy for a picture, so I wasn't able to get any of him. Jamison's dress was made by Cyn-Cyn and I love it! She made Grayson a coordinating Christmas outfit as well, so I will post pics of that soon. Can't wait to see everyone! Love you guys!

Life is....busy!

It seems that we have been going nonstop since the school year began. Now that our school's annual fundraiser, The Taste of St. Joe's, is over for the year, I am hoping our pace will slow down for a little while! Jamison has become an excellent little reader...she has begun the Reading Counts program at school and will start reading at our school Mass in January. She is also doing great in her extra curricular activities (piano, dance, gymnastics). She is working on her third song book in piano -- Christmas music -- and has chosen to play "Silent Night" and "Away in a Manger" in her recital. Grayson is still loving his school. He can read and spell his name and loves to "write" stories. He dictates them and his teacher writes it down. My favorite so far is from the week after Thanksgiving. It was just one sentence, "I ate Lucky Charms for Thanksgiving." We are looking forward to a PLANNED trip home at Christmas. I think we had enough unplanned ones this year to last a while. I am including some updated pictures....Jamison and Grayson having fun at home and Nick and I at The Taste of St. Joe's.