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Megan's humor is really begining to shine through. Below are some pictures of her putting on my suit jacket, grabbing an old brief case, and a hat I wore when I was a child.

A Special Guest & Piano Recital

The weekend started with a special surprise for Megan and especially Jaden. Back in early October our next door neighbors moved to the other part of the state and their daughter was Jaden's best friend. This weekend she was going to stay with us while her mom went to help a friend of hers. We did not tell the kids that Claudia was going to stay with us and the look on their faces when she walked in the door was priceless, I wish I would have had a camera. It was great to see Claudia and her mom, they are missed.

Friday night Janelle had her Christmas piano recital for her students at a nearby church. This would be Jaden's first recital. Both Megan and Jaden, and all the kids, performed well. The best moment was when Jaden got done playing, he stood up and looked at his teacher (& mom) from across the room with the look of "how did I do?"

Jaden and Megan play after the recital

Jaden plays "Go Tell It On The Mountain"
Megan plays "The First Noel"

Christmas Programs

Megan and Jaden all decked out for their Holiday Program at school. It was a nice program with songs song by 1st through 5th graders.

Every year our church puts on a kids Christmas program. This year Megan was Mary(this is the 2nd time she has had this honor) and Jaden was an angel. Jaden wasn't too happy because he thought angels were girls. We need to teach him more about Gabrial and Michael.

Constuction Updates

The inside of the addition is now insulated. This is looking out to the south from the new kitchen and dining room.
Most of the house is now rapped in Tyvek and roofed. Notice no bricks on the front and new windows.

Back view.

Brick Removal

Our current house has brick a few feet up in the front of our house. Over the years the bricks have been slowly leaning forward falling away from the house. We decided as long as we were siding the house it was a good time to remove the bricks. We didn't want to do it too soon before they started the siding because we would then leave the house exposed to the elements. We asked the builders to give me a little notice so I could get it done so as not to slow up their progress. As it turns out the notice they gave me was a busy week and weekend so all I had was Saturday morning until Saturday 3 pm to remove them, about 7 hours. With a small jack hammer and the help of Janelle's dad we accomplished it at 3 pm. The front of the house was a mess with bricks laying everywhere because we didn't have time to organize, we just did demolition. Of course it snowed that night so everything was buried, leaving clean up a challenge.

The demolition crew.

Santa Visit

Today the kids got to see Santa at our community Christmas gathering.

Megan still participates and asked for an ipod touch(slim chance the elves know how to make those).

Jaden didn't know what to ask for.
Jordan finally wasn't scared and asked for Scooby Dooby Doo toys and an excavator, a real one.

Austen was scared so Megan joined him and he asked for toys.