Church Nativity Program

All three of the kids were in the Christmas program at church. Charlotte was a sheep, Benjamin was a wise man, and Rosemary was the main angel and even had a line to recite.

Ready for the program to begin

Charlotte stayed with us until it was her turn to go up on stage.

Rosemary said her verse perfectly. This was her first speaking part in a play. She learned it very quickly. When we found out what the lines were, she remarked that they were the same ones from Charlie Brown Christmas and that we should just watch that to learn them.

Charlotte was a very cute little sheep. In fact, I don’t think she wanted to get off the stage. She was quite upset when we didn’t let her go back up when her part was done.

The host of angels joined Rosemary on stage

Finally, the wise men came bringing gifts.

Singing Go Tell It On The Mountain

The wise men brought their gifts to baby Jesus.

The cast

And here’s a video of the entire program:

Harvest Christian Church Children’s Nativity Program

Easter 2011

We kicked off this year’s Easter season once again with the Estes Egg Hunt. The kids love it. That weekend was crazy for us so we called in some help. My mom and dad came to help with the kids so that we could take care of all of the things that needed to happen that weekend.

Ben and Landon hitched a ride with Faye. That may have been the highlight of the day for Ben.

In our haste to make it out to the Estes, I completely forgot baskets for the kids, thankfully there were some bags in the van.

Rosemary really had a good time, despite how this picture looks. And she picked out her dress. I wasn’t there when she got ready. She calls it her “Easter dress.”

Rosemary hunting for her eggs.

Charlotte hung out with grandpa in the shade.

We also dyed eggs this year. It was the first time Ben ever got in on the action. It wasn’t an ideal egg dyeing experience though. I bought the ‘tie dye’ kind which was a little more complicated and messy than what we probably should have done, but the eggs were nice and vibrant…as were our fingers for awhile afterwards.

Finally, Easter Sunday arrived. We headed to church for an extended breakfast and for worship.

Once the kids were done with breakfast, they played outside a bit. Such a handsome boy in his first tie. When Ben saw it, he kept saying “Daddy!”

Beautiful, silly girls!

The best pic I got of Rosemary

Ben looks like such a big boy!

Rosemary found this roly-poly and named it Pinky-Winky. It came home with us and we put it in a jar with holes in the lid and added some grass and leaves. Rosemary was so excited about her “first pet,” as she called it. Unfortunately, it only lived until Thursday.

Charlotte’s First Easter

Pretty girl!

Sisters

The girls

And the whole family (the first picture of all 5 of us) courtesy of the Williams’ family

Baby Shower

Our small group hosted a baby shower for one of our member’s daughter who is having a little girl at the end of January. Ben and I picked up the paper goods while Rosemary was at preschool one day. The party store had Ben-sized carts so he pushed that little thing all over the store.

Such a helper! But if it was up to Ben, there would have been way more stuff in that cart.

I made her a pocket sling and a little hat. (while I was at it, I made matching ones for our baby girl too).

The party was at our house, but everyone pitched in and brought food so it was easy prep. I just had to do a fruit bowl, cheese, and the cake. Cakes aren’t my thing so I went simple with chocolate and pink polka dots.

I didn’t take any photos during the party. I’m horrible about doing that. But afterwards, Ben helped Jonathan pick up the paper lanterns from outside. He came inside wearing them. He cracks me up!

Harvest Party

Rosemary got to don her Snow White gown one more time for the Harvest Party at church. And Ben got to dress up as one of the seven dwarves, Doc, to be exact.

This is the closest I got to a photo of Ben wearing his glasses.

Hi!

Doc getting a drink before heading out. His beard was a bit loose. :-) But his costume was fun to make and cost a total of $2.80.

 

Rosemary was so excited to see Dynah and get her face painted

Dynah

Ben had diamonds on his cheek since he was one of the dwarves.

There was square dancing too. Ben loved it. At one point, Jonathan and I looked around and found that Ben had made his way into the dancing circle on his own. He cracked us up! Rosemary, on the other hand, did not wish to dance...that is, until the band started packing up.

Easter Egg Hunt

The Estes family hosted an Easter Egg Hunt for all the Harvest families last weekend.

We started out with a potluck lunch and visiting with friends. After lunch, Jonathan joined some of the other dads for a beanbag toss games and the kids played with bubbles. Then we headed over for the egg hunt.

 Rosemary was ready to get some eggs.

There was a really good turnout.

Landon and Ben got a head start since they were the littlest ones there.

Ben did a pretty good job for his first egg hunt. Once he realized candy was inside, he kinda lost interest in finding more though.

 

 

Rosemary knew exactly what to do this year.

 

Ben loves his chocolate.

A lot.

Next, the kids tried to break the pinata.

Waiting for the pinata to break.

 

Grabbing some of the loot.

  

I don’t know why, but Ben would only pick up Tootsie Rolls. I don’t think he’s ever even had a Tootsie Roll.

Ben’s Tootsie Roll take.