The Happenings in the Brown House

Well we haven't been doing much around here this month, except for the kids starting basketball and just the regular piano lessons and church activities. So here are a few pictures of the kids have been doing.

Carson started pre-school this year and so they had a little Christmas program and some kids were dressed as elves and some were dressed as santa and each child had a part that they said. Carson's part was "I can't wait to see Santa". They sang some Christmas songs and it was all very cute. As you can tell Carson was an elf.

Excuse the red eyes I fixed them but when I posted them onto my blog they came back and I don't know how to fix them now.

He didn't sing the songs at all, which isn't unusual for him, but he did say his part. I was going to post the video of him but I can't figure out how to post video's yet.

This picture is from our work party. It is just the one but that is all you need right. This year we decide to give our staff from the store a Christmas party so we went to the Old Spaghetti Factory and treated the staff to dinner and we had a white elephant exchange. It was alot of fun.

On the 16th we had our ward Christmas party. We had a great turn out and it was alot of fun. We had a little program where each auxiliary would come up and sing a Christmas song and then after that we had some of the primary kids do the nativity. Madison was asked to be Mary which she was so excited about and then another boy from her primary class was Joseph. They did a great job. After the nativity we had some great food.

Mary, Joseph, and the donkey, oh and baby Jesus.

Madison and Zach have started basketball and so this month they started having games. We have been lucky enough that the games are on the same day but to bad they are at different times. Zach's are always in the morning and then Madison's are always in the early afternoon. Anyway it has been great to see how the kids have progressed this year in basketball. This is Madison's second year and Zach's third year playing. Zach can finally shoot the basketball without shooting it through his legs and he can actually make baskets he was so thrilled when he realized he could. Madison is doing better is getting more aggressive in her playing. So now that I have said all that when we take Carson with us he gets kind of bored and Larry and I like to cheer the kids on and watch them so when we go to the basketball games we bring the ds for Carson to play. I usually don't like to use the ds as a babysitter but at the games it makes it so much more enjoyable and he is happy during that time. It is after the game when I tell him he needs to turn it off.

Madison getting ready to play

On the 18th we went to Larry's mom's house and did Christmas with them. The kids had a good time and got some good stuff. Madison got a lava lamp which she wanted, Zach got Connect Four launchers game which he was thrilled about and then Carson got a race track and some cars which he loved as well. We had a great time with Larry's parents.

Carson opened his race track and was so excited.

Larry's mom helping the kids.

Madison's lava lamp