Missoula Children's Theater Dec. 2015 King Arthur's Quest

Another successful Missoula Children's Theater production.  

This year it was King Arthur's Quest. 

Graham was a squire and Benny, by coincidence, was assigned to be his "mini-me".  

These little people were so dang cute!

These are the Damsels of the 1st order.  Lucy was the Damsel of the 2nd order.  She was not "distressed".  She was fabulous!  She was supposed to act super irritated with all the girly girls who needed help.  The part fit her a little too well.  

December Happenings

Sullivan discovered the costume bin!

The little guy and I met up with some friends at Lorrie's Farm.  She's an American woman that has lived here for 10 years and has a great farm with animals and orange groves.  

Sullivan LOVED running around and seeing all the dogs and chickens.  

And then he was drawn to the dog cage......naturally.   His friends, Mac and Wesley felt they needed to join him.  

Her beautiful view of Mt. Etna.  

On another crisp December afternoon, Sully and I drove up to Nicolosi with our friends, the Davis'.  Bradley and Sully loved their little pizzas.  

Sully is VERY into the swings at the park lately (the last 6 months of his short life).  The lazy mom in me has always appreciated a park with no swings, but alas, the one nearest our home is equipped.  Check out that helmet and that view.  

Sullivan loves him some frozen blueberries. 

Lucy had a holiday choir concert.  I got to attend it all on my own.  Jason was in Michigan for a training and I got a sitter for the boys.  It was wonderful!  This picture cracks me up because it looks like she is seriously mad at me.  

I got to spend a couple hours at Benny's school building gingerbread houses.  We rocked it....of course.  

Graham was supposed to go to school wearing a crazy Christmas costume.  This was the best we could come up with.  I was actually pretty impressed with my tissue paper bow tie.  

Lucy, Graham, and I went with some neighbors to drop off some donations to a group of refugees that  are living an hour or so away.  Their need is great, and we did very little, but I hope it was a good experience for them to see.  

This man kept saying to Lucy how much she reminded him of his little sister.  He hadn't seen her in years and you could tell how much he missed her.  

I don't remember what Lucy Goose was all dressed up for, but I remember thinking how pretty she looked, so I made her stop for a picture.  She just got her braces off last month!  Look at that smile!!

Flag Football 2015

Jason and I thought it would be fun to coach Benny's flag football team this year.  Well....we kinda got peer pressured into it, but hey, we're sporty...we got this!  

We didn't realize until a week in that Jason was going to be gone for 2 1/2 of the 6 week season and that we, as a family, would be on vacation for Thanksgiving week.  Needless to say, it was a hectic time and I was WAAAAYYY too stressed out about coaching a bunch of 5-6 year olds, but we made some memories and hopefully Benny will remember that he had super involved parents.  Ha.  

We lucked out that one of the parents was also "super involved" and was willing to help out a ton while Jason was gone.  Wouldn't have survived the season without Robert!  

This picture is hilarious to me!  It looks like Benny is trying to be tough, right?  After the picture was taken, he asked Jason if he knew why he posed with his arm up.  Jason asked him why and he responded, "Because I wanted everyone to smell my armpit."  Awesome.  

Did I mention that coaching 5-6 year olds is kinda like herding cats....except it's worse because at least you don't understand what the cats are saying.  These kids could whine!!!!!!  

But, let's be honest, there's a ton of down time in football.  

We were sooo relieved when the short season was over!  Benny had a good time and I heard him brag a few times that his Mom and Dad were his coach.  Mission accomplished.