She's Official

It's official! Ashley got her Idaho driver's license today. She likes to pretend that she's not excited, but she can't hide it. Most people ask me if I'm worried, but I'm not. Ashley is a very cautious driver. Besides, come this Friday, she is going to have to become the family chauffeur for at least the next six weeks.

Christmas!

One of our Chritmas traditions is to take a picture of the children on the stairs before they get to open presents on Christmas morning. Don't they all look excited!

Jayden asked Santa for a Batman costume this year. He had to put it on at the very first chance he had. Of course, Ashley and Cordell had to try as well.

Since there wasn't any early morning play practice this morning, I took the opportunity to sleep in a little. When I got up, I found Cordell and Megan outside raking leaves without having been asked. Made this mother very proud!

After breakfast, Ashley, Brooke and Jayden helped rake leaves too.

Ashley and I went to see New Moon last night with my book club group. There were 18 of us, and we had a blast! Jennifer Miller and Christy Waite got to the theatre around 5:30 to make sure we'd be first in line for the 8:15 showing. Thanks ladies!

The rest of us showed up piecemeal after that.

The movie was pretty good (the books are soooo much better), but the best part was listening to all the comments those women made. Thanks for a great girl's night out!

Ashley Performs

Last night Jayden and I got to attend Ashley's Treasure Valley Honor Band performance at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho. The band performed very well. I especially enjoyed their last song - Spitfire. It had so many time signatue changes that it made the kids really work to stay in tempo. When Ashley finally gets her CD of the performance, I'll see if I can figure out how to post Spitfire for your listening pleasure. For now, see if you can find Ashley in this photo. Great job Ashley!