Passport for Parker

Parker is going with his high school to Europe in the Spring.  (He's filling out his application right now.)  He has a part-time job to pay for the trip.  He's been really busy getting ready! 

When I picked up his passport photos, Greg and I were agreed that his photo looked like something we had seen before...

Ah, yes, he looks like Jason Bourne...

Merry Christmas!

Lots going on this month... it's nice to be busy with nice things.

 First we visited a very special Santa :) 

The kiddos sang at the ward Christmas Party-- Yoda is doing a little boogie-pose off to the right, he's in a blue shirt. 

Mimi is in the middle, wearing pink.  She was super serious, but we were able to get this little smile our of her.

Yoda is in the back row, just under the flag.  This was a school choir concert.
Parker also had a school orchestra concert that same night, Greg attended so I don't yet photos or video from it...

We also visited Nana's good friend's house for cookie decorating and model-train inspiration.

Mimi was in her first play- Scrooge.  She was the pudding vendor and the tallest in the cast.
Here's a brief video, it's toward the end of the play.

There is a lot of work to do on the train track.  Every Christmas I think, "this year I'm going to make this happen!"  Fingers crossed! 

Fight walk

On Sundays when the weather is good, we make the kiddos go on a walk around the block.  Every single time they fight us on this... so now we call it the "fight walk"

On this Sunday Fight Walk, Yoda wasn't having it, so he jumped on Mimi's back. 

Words...

Mimi, "I don't like grammar, expecially since 'funner' isn't a word!"
Me, "Did you just say expecially!?  That's not a word either"
Mimi, "hee hee"

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Cooking show person, "I used caramel flavoring..."
Yoda, "ewww"
Parker, "why don't you like that?"
Yoda, "I don't like caramel"
Parker, "it's like carmel ..."
Yoda, "oh, I like that"

Hour of Code

Check out this dance that Mimi coded up. Click on "how it works" to see her code.

Bio Art

A few weeks ago we went to a Girl Scout outing where they taught us about bacteria.  Then they gave us Petri dishes and we sort of brushed the bacteria to create a picture. 

Mimi did BB8 and I did Starry Night

 The day of, it looked like almost nothing. 

A few days later the bacteria grew and created these...