Monday, December 13, 2010

A Busy Weekend

Making gingerbread houses with the Hales and Brames
Amber creating
Krystal's masterpiece
Jared's house complete with garage, car, slide, and swimming pool
Clarissa, the interior decorator

Friday 10th - Gingerbread Houses
Took kids to Sonic for ice cream reward for reading charts
Jared went caroling with Central United Methodists

Saturday 11th - Church Primary activity, wrapping gifts for Social Services and a visit with Santa
Attended Snow White dance performance
Jared had Rank Advancement/Playing Risk with the Scouts night
Invited Lindsey over to watch "Dear John"

Sunday 12th - Drove out to church in Floyd, church cancelled because of weather
Drove to church in Blacksburg, attended church there
Drove to airport in Roanoke to pick up Chris, coming home from India
Attended Jared and Clarissa's piano recital

Chris is having a hard time adjusting to being back in the States. He still has jet lag and comes home from work to just crash. Amber tucked him in on the couch and gave him her stuffed animal. This picture was taken on Tuesday evening.
He brought us gifts from India. All the girls got pretty scarves. He also brought some spices to cook with and some Chocolate from Switzerland.
Jared's one request was some Indian art. Chris couldn't find any at the market, so one of the guy's sons let him have a piece from his personal collection. It's in 3D too!

Monday 13th - Homeschool Christmas party
Dance class for Clarissa and Krystal
Couponing at Kroger (yes, it's a verb!)
Watched "Amazing Grace" and had Egg Nog flavored ice cream for Family Night
Jared and his friends are having a blast playing "Apples to Apples"

Bird feeders
Clarissa is getting ready to shop at the Christmas store
What a great turnout this year, it was cold, but the snow held off long enough for us to enjoy a really nice Christmas party.

3 comments:

Jo said...

So much fun stuff! Are you home free now, do you get to stay in and enjoy the warmth of your house? We just have a few more activities until we're done. School is out Friday - yay!

Orenda said...

Looks like so much fun! Love the scarves...they're beautiful

Vicki said...

The armchair travels to Europe took us about a week to complete. By the way, we did an armchair travel to India a year or so ago, and made some really yummy food. We used the cookbook in the children's section of the Radford library. Barry says the naan tasted almost as good as the stuff he ate in Afghanistan....so I'm sure Chris will think it's okay, but not as good as the real deal too.
Ohh, have fun finding a good recipe for the spices. I love the colorful scarves, maybe we'll have to get together for another armchair travel to India.