Christmas Nativity

The Mattys' spent the afternoon and evening with us.  We had fun with archery, dirt bikes, and just playing.  Dinner was delicious.  After dinner, we re-enacted the nativity.  It was so cute. [ Your browser does not support this video. ](https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/media.keithandangela.com/2014-12-24+Christmas+Nativity/

Santa

At our request, Santa came to our home a day early. Tucker devised a plan to determine if Santa is real.  He decided that there were two options.  Option one: leave a plate of cookies.  If they have been eaten by morning, then Santa must exist.  The other was to

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Savannah's Lego Creation

Savannah received some Lego's for Christmas from Grandma and Grandpa Knight, so she built her own Lego scene today, all by herself. It is very detailed -- very well designed.

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Tucker's Gifted Program

A month ago we received a letter from Tucker's school asking if they could test him for the gifted program.  We discussed it with him and he didn't seem to be very interested, so we declined.  Within hours of the form being returned to the school,

Dirt Bike Family

Christmas brought us two new kid-sized electric dirt bikes.  They have been so much fun in our yard!  It's easy to imagine that Savannah will be riding one of these without training wheels before a bicycle. Comments Keith (Feb 12, 2015): Both bikes were from Black Friday sales.

Christmas (again)

Sticking to our tradition, we opened some presents again this week.  This time we opened presents from Grandma and Grandpa Knight, and Scott and Lori. The kids loved it, of course!

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Savannah's Pre-School Christmas Program

Savannah's pre-school had a very fun musical Christmas program this week.  They worked hard learning the music and they even quoted some Bible verses from memory.

Cub Scout Pack Meeting

Since Angela and I are both Den Leaders, our entire family gets to attend and participate in Pack Meetings. This time, there were a lot of Christmas themed games.  Even Tucker and Savannah were able to join in. Tucker was in an event where you needed to get a puffy

Reaching Out

While we were at the airport, the kids really liked this mural.

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Princess Savannah in the Yard

Savannah put on one of her princess dresses and went running in the yard. Comments Angela (Dec 16, 2014): i guess she's a free spirit, so funny

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Carson's Drawings

Aunt Andrea and Uncle Brent gave Carson art books, sketch pads and colored pencils for Christmas.  He has loved drawing with them.  Here are a few of his creations: Comments Angela (Dec 16, 2014): really good!

Christmas Round Two

For week two of Christmas, the kids and I opened up some more presents.  They loved it and the gifts have definitely been getting playing with.  When we opened all of the presents at once on Christmas, most of the toys would be completely ignored.

Christmas Dirt Bike

Carson received an electric Razor dirt bike for Christmas.  Since we open a present or two each week in December leading up to Christmas, Carson was able to open it last week.  Since it was a huge labeled box sitting in our garage, it wasn't exactly a surprise,

At the Airport

Savannah and Angela at the airport.  She's on her way... Comments Angela (Dec 16, 2014): love this picture!

Puddle Jumpers and Stilts at Cub Scouts

Angela and I are the Cub Scout's leaders, so this last week we had a fun activity building puddle jumpers and walking on stilts. Comments Angela (Dec 17, 2014): walking on stilts is WAY harder than you think! and WAY harder than it looks!

Fall Cleanup

Fall means mountains of leaves and pine needles in our yard.  I think that we've collected more than 20 large bags so far. I tried out the bagger for our riding mower, it was missing some parts, but I figured it out and it worked great.  Saved so

Thanksgiving Baseball

To finish off Thanksgiving weekend, the kids and I decided to burn off our delicious homemade pies playing baseball in the backyard.  Savannah uses the T-ball tee, but I pitch the ball to the boys.

Thanksgiving Dinner

For so many years, one or more of us has been sick, so we are hesitant to make Thanksgiving plans with anyone.  This year we did, but they fell apart, so we did our own Thanksgiving. Angela made a homemake pumpin pie and Danielle sent me her recipe for homemade

Cobb County Rock and Mineral Show

The kids and I went to the Cobb County Rock and Mineral Show a few weeks ago.  The kids really enjoyed seeing everything and bought a few small rocks.

Christmas throughout the month

There was a Christmas party at our neighborhood clubhouse last week and Santa was there! We have a tradition of opening gifts throughout the month of December - this is the first present-opening night. The fake smiles are cause the kids just want to open the presents already.

Carson's Science Project

Carson's class all did science projects.  So Carson decided to grow sugar crystals.  It look a long time and was tough to document. So we choose to measure the strength of the different types of tape we had in the garage.  We taped a loop of fishing line

Oh yeah, it was a FUN RUN

Mt. Bethel Elementary had a Fun Run a couple of weeks ago. There were half-mile, 1-mile and 5K runs, and Carson and Tucker ran the 1-mile. They each got a medal for participation, along with their Fun Run t-shirts. They did a good job running and keeping up. The school

Pumpkin Carvin' (finally)

What do you know, we finally get around to carving a pumpkin - on November 2 Notice how it all looks like the same pumpkin? It is; each picture is of each artist's carving (on each side of the same pumpkin). We're in the pantry cause

Halloween

Here we are on our way out for Trick-or-treating in our neighborhood.  It was pretty cold and sprinkled on and off that evening. Since very few people actually trick-or-treat near our part of the neighborhood, people are very generous.  So we didn't go to too many houses, but

Trunk or Treat

Miss Savannah was a pirate girl Tucker was a fireman, and Carson was a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints They had marshmallow-roasting, and smores-making stations a parade and trunk or treating fishing game You can see the kids' decorations in and on our car.