We had Chinese for Christmas dinner- most likley our new tradition and Sennet wanted to use chopsticks.  He is getting pretty skilled with them!

Tonight was Sennet’s first ever school performance and he did great!  It was super cute and fun to watch.  Sennet is in pre-school and his class did a dance and song- Kevin will post video later.  The other pre-school room did a country style dance and I have included some of those pics as well […]

I loaded an app on my phone that allows kids to call Santa and give him their wish list and it ALSO has a function where Santa can call your kids if they are being naughty (or nice) and remind the kiddo that they need to listen, or be nice or any other number of […]

We started The Elf on the Shelf tradition this year and Sennet loves it.  We love it too because we can remind him that Mr Incredible Elf (that is the name Sennet gave him because he is obsessed with The Incredibles) is watching him and he better not be naughty or Mr Incredible will tell […]

It is hard to not realize what a special gift it is to be able to take your child to visit Santa when so many innocent children were shot to death while they were at school today.  I was wondering how many of those children had not visited Santa yet- maybe their families had plans […]

Every year a photographer friend of ours Earl Harper and his wife Doreen, host a Toys for Tots party at their studio. They require everyone to bring a gift to donate and they have a keg of beer, wine, and lots of appetizers and desserts. The US Marines come in full dress blues and they […]