Madigan's School Holiday Program

I'm not sure if everyone knows this, but Madigan is back in Montessori school. She started back November 1st and we are all so very happy about it. Madigan is a little Montessorian at heart and her mama is happy to be part of a family community. She nows goes to a school in town that we can walk and bike to...Leo and I usually walk up to pick her up. It's about a 20 minute walk from the house. Here's a few pictures of her holiday program. M practiced for weeks on her songs and really did try and sing them while on stage.

Mr. Handsome Pants

Before the holidays hit, I had some time alone with Leo. I decided to snap some holiday photos of just him.

Family Photo Bests

Here's some of the photos we took for our holiday card. I love the one of just the kids sitting on the car. (Safety note-I am inside holding Leo!)





If anyone is wondering-we have a remote to our camera, so I just clicked away the whole time and hoped we 'd get a good one.

Silliness

This is a rare moment to capture of Madigan being so silly with her friend Paulina. She's the "singing seal" in this video.... She gets the sillies sometimes and really enjoys making her friends laugh. I think when she really feels comfortable with a friend, things like this happen!

Pumpkin Carving 2010

A little late, but still good to share.

More Dancing

2010 Christmas Stroll

We didn't take any other pictures then these ones at this year's Christmas Stroll downtown...it was too cold to worry about photos! We live about a 10 minutes walk to downtown and we are so happy with our location in town. Do we think about a bigger house?-yes, of course. But then we realize we have everything we need here at this house in the center of town. Kyle just submitted plans to the city to tear down and build a new larger garage. We're still hoping to do it this Winter. It's pretty darn large (Kyle wants a lift for his VW love) and will have a large room on the second floor for guests, storage and general hang out space (think teenager hang out spot!).
One of the indoor things to do at the stroll was the gingerbread house contest display- pretty amazing stuff!

And when we arrived home, both kids were asleep and it wasn't even 7:00 yet. (Love that.)