Happy Early Birthday Maddie Moo

Madison turns 2 on December 5th so we celebrated her birthday last Friday after Thanksgiving. We also celebrated Grandma's birthday on Thanksgiving day!

Madison Marie 2 years old!

Cameron rented a bounce house for the kids to play on. They bounced Thursday while we cooked Thanksgiving dinner and then again on Friday.

 Getting ready to slide!

 Not sure what this was about. Cameron snapped these pictures while I was helping cook. They look liked they have a major case of the giggles!

 Maddie had fun bouncing!

 The bounce house

 All four grandkids

Noah 12, Emory almost 6, Cason 3, and Madison 2

 Grandma bounced a little on Friday!

Friday afternoon the kids each took turns at the piñata.



Emory has quite the swing and stance! 

Pawpaw played a trick on Noah and raised the piñata just before he would swing. 

Check out that fierce face! 

The piñata finally fell and all the kids got candy. Maddie loves candy!

Maddie enjoying her ring pop! 

Opening presents with her blue lips! She had fun and figured out the unwrapping thing very quickly!

Still working on the ring pop during Happy Birthday. She LOVED that thing and ENJOYED it!

Maddie LOVES shoes so Cameron got her a shoe cake! 



She decided it was okay to put down the ring pop long enough to taste the icing! She is too funny!

Cason enjoying a piece of cake!





Cutting Down Our Christmas Tree

Sunday after church we went to cut our Christmas tree. The Christmas tree farm we usually go to closed down last year so we went to a new (to us) farm.

 This is what I got when I asked to take their picture with all the trees. Not exactly what I was going for.

We searched the farm and found this tree. It is 10 feet tall and had a good shape despite a few holes on one side!

 The kids with our Christmas tree!

 Cason wanted to try to cut it down.

 Timber went the tree!

Heading to the truck.

This is another one of the lovely poses I got when I asked to take their picture. 

The Polar Express

Tonight we went to the Texas State Railroad in Palestine and road the Polar Express. This was our first time riding the Polar Express or a "real" train for that matter and the kids had a blast!

 Emory and Cason waiting on the train.

 This was our train car, number 46. We sat in rows 12 AB and 13 AB.

 Emory in front of our train car.

 The Polar Express.

There were 730 people on our train!

 Cason in front of our train car. This was all he would give me.

 Cason's golden ticket!

 Emory getting the party started!

 Listening to the story.

 The North Pole and Santa!

 Cason looking out the window. I was able to capture his reflection!

 Emory and Cason dancing!

 Santa Claus!

 The kids were actually not afraid of Santa this year! Santa passed out jingle bells to all the kids.

 Emory and one of Santa's Elf's.

 Singing Christmas songs and jingling their bells!

They had a blast!



Emory's School Work

Emory brought home her progress report last week.

 Emory's first spelling test. She was upset that she missed one. She says that she did not hear the "sh" and just heard he. I am thinking it might of had something to do with rushing to write down an answer.  Either way she did a great job on her spelling test!

 A recent math "test"

 Emory brought home this turkey picture today. The yellow square under the turkey is a hay bale!

 This was written on the back. She is all about writing the date these days! Even if isn't in the right order!

 Last week Emory's class celebrated Veterans Day!

Kindergarten School Picture

Last Friday Emory came home with her school picture.

She looks like such a big girl.



The Map

Two weeks ago Emory came home with an assignment to make a map of her neighborhood, farm, or area in which she lived. Emory worked hard on her map for two days (off and on) with our help. She did a very good job and was proud of it!

 

Cobb Farms Map

The New Tie

Saturday the kids and I headed to Lufkin to do a little shopping because Emory was in need of new tennis shoes and winter clothes. While in The Children's Place Cason spotted a rack with ties. He decided that he needed one because he was a big boy and big boys wear ties. He immediately picked out one with all different types of balls on it. Since it was on the sale rack for $0.99 I caved in and bought it for him. He was super excited and insisted on wearing it to church yesterday.