Who-Ville

Evangeline participated in our church's float in the town Christmas parade again this year.  This parade is getting bigger and bigger every year which is very exciting.  

 

For the second year now South School has worked very hard to transform the school for Christmas.  This year we did The Grinch.  It was fun working on it with all of my work family.  It's such a wonderful place to work.  Evangeline was so excited to help.  Below she is helping Mrs. Morgan, our principal, paint some of the Who-Ville scenery.  I took Jed, Evangeline and Peggy in to see it during our open house.  There was a live reindeer and the kids got Grinch cookies and punch.  

 

 

 

We love getting out our tub of Christmas books at the start of the holiday season.  We have so many good ones and the kids just love them.  



School Choral Recital

Evangeline chose to be in the North School chorus this year.  They practice once a week on Mondays during flex time.  Evangeline absolutely loves her music teacher, Mrs. Wilson.  They even eat lunch together once a month.  The chorus program was absolutely lovely.  The forth grade group sang several songs.  Two of my favorites were The Everlasting Fruitcake and Sing We Now of Christmas.  (Evangeline is in the front row in the green dress.)

Three best friends....

and her other sweet friend, Kaiden....

Trimming the Tree

I just love going in to say good morning to Jed before I leave for school.  He is so imaginative.  He's usually amusing himself by looking through his books/magazines and constantly calling us in to tell us what he wants for Christmas.  He loves to look out his window, which is what he is doing in the below picture....

 

We waited a day or so to decorate the Hutson Family Tree.  We had a few light string glitches to work out, but the kids just love to decorate the tree.  It sure is beautiful!  

 

Jed was super surprised to pull a Storm Trooper out of the ornament box!  He held it up and said, "What!".  His face was priceless.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also enjoy decorating the big tree at Christmas every year at the Hanging of the Greens.  After we decorate the church we have dinner and sing carols.  It's such a lovely way to kick off the holiday season.

 





The Hutson Family Christmas Tree



After years of putting up our beautiful artificial tree we decided to go for the real tree this year and probably will from hence forth.  The artificial we've been using (the same one my parents used when I was a child) is just way too big for our house.  As luck would have it, a couple that we've become friends with just opened up a tree farm this year, so it was fun to be able to support them as well.  Their tree farm was adorable and we had so much fun selecting our tree.  The fun continued as we successfully stuffed the whole tree in the back of our minivan to bring home. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jed in this little car was just too much!

 

Here's our tree!  Ain't she a beaut! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Golden Hour

The pretties time of day is around 4:00 in our living room.  The sun filters straight through the front windows and makes everything happy.  The effect sunshine has on me is huge.  Natural light is essential for happiness....in my case anyway.    

 



In other news:
I made my annual "cook inside of a pumpkin" dish....

Painted a holiday pillow cover.....

Baked a fall themed pot pie.....

Jed loves to go shopping.  He makes grocery trips so much more palatable.  He recently loves to walk like a big boy.

 

 

And here is my other favorite shopping buddy.....