AWANA Grand Prix

Norah entered her "Rainbow Trout" this year in the AWANA Grand Prix, and if I do say so myself, she did pretty well! Out of 4 heats, she took second twice and first twice! She was pretty excited to take part in it, and the highlight for her was winning a special award, "Most Colorful Car". So she felt pretty special!

Merry Christmas!

Well, since I finally took down the Christmas lights this week (of course, they'd been turned off a while ago), it's probably time to make our last 2010 Christmas blog post. Here are a few pictures (and one video).

Our tree on Christmas morning:

The kids opening their stockings:
Us with our stockings (it was early in the morning still):
Norah and her Fuzzoodles. The kids had been singing the commercial theme song for them:
They were both excited for their Zhu Zhu pets:
This video captures it well. Dig the unified excitement around the 0:25 mark:


Haddon loved his turtle pillow pet most of all. Right after opening it, he went into his room, took the pillow off his bed, and chucked it into the laundry room. He told us we could get rid of it; he wouldn't be needing it anymore.

After morning festivities at our house, we went over to my parents' place. Here's Kelly and Haddon excited for what's to come:
My parents got Norah a Leapster (her first video game system).
She took to it pretty well:
Playing with baby cousins:Here's Haddon at the end of the day sleeping on his new pillow pet:

Merry Christmas to all.