Summer draws Kayla a picture

We were all pretty impressed when Summer drew Kayla a picture of her favorite dragon Night Fury from the movie How To Train Your Dragon.  Pretty good job for a 5 year old!!!

Summer Practicing Dragon Form

Bowling with Friends

 Ed decided it would be fun to take the kids black light bowling.  We invited another family from Taekwondo.  Ed had a particularly off night.  I had the same score as usual, which is pretty bad..lol.  I really should consider bumper bowling..Lol.  Check out how well the kids did!  You can click on the picture to see a larger version.

Girls visit Santa

 Yes, I know, we visited Santa before Thanksgiving was even over..but I have learned my lesson to do it early and it works out quite nice!!

A few years ago I kept putting off the dreaded mall visit to see Santa.  I was never happy about the long lines and the fact that you couldn't take your own picture as they wanted to force you to buy theirs.  The last time I made the mistake of waiting we saw Santa 5 days before Christmas.  Low and behold, Kayla had shockingly changed her mind of what she wanted Santa to bring her for Christmas.  It was too late.  I had already wrapped and purchased what she had previously wanted.  So it ended up being the year Kayla was disappointed that Santa did not bring her what she asked for.

The next year I knew to be better prepared and see Santa early.  I found out about Santa visiting our local thrift store the second Saturday in November.  So, we went to the event for the visit.  Not only were the lines short but I could take as many pictures as I wanted with my own  camera.  It was great.  Plus, I would learn early in the game what they asked Santa for. 

Summer uses barrets

We are trying to grow Summer's bangs out.  This was her idea of putting barrets in her hair to keep them out of her face...Lol

Kayla taekwondo

Kayla is doing a great job in taekwondo.  She is making a new friend too which is nice.  They both like dragon and legos.  Our whole family will be belt testing on December 17th.  I am confident we will be ready.  When we pass we will be orange belts.  Every two months we will belt test.   If you are interested in seeing the progression of belts and how far we have to go you can click on this link.

Snow

 The girls were super happy!!!  It surprisingly started to snow just as school was getting out today.  I have no idea why Alyssa didn't even have a jacket on...LOL

Kayla playing clarinet

Art Musem Field Trip

 Alyssa's class took a field trip to the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.  I volunteered to go along.  Originally  I wasn't too thrilled since I don't really find hanging pictures that fun to look at.  However, our docent was amazing and I loved all the sculptures in the museum.  I most especially like the World War II sculptures made out of items from the war.

 Alyssa had a great time painting her own little vase.

Summer has fun crashing