Christmas times a comin'!

Hannah's face when she saw santa!

sitting on our jolly friend's knee 

Joshy not so jolly 

Well in the spirit of Christmas we have had such a fun but busy weekend.. Auntie Sylvia and Uncle Christopher came down to see the show... Daddy went with them, and enjoyed the show, it being a musical and all!  Then on Saturday We went to see Mommy's class art gallery show.. we enjoyed that too!  Sunday Hannah turned into a little lamb that came with the shepherds to see the baby Jesus laying in a manger! it was a very very cute production!  Then we got to sit on Santa's lap.. Joshy wasn't too impressed. BUT the look on Hannah's face when he came in.. priceless!  after that Mommy and Daddy took us to Drumheller to have a quick supper at Tim Horton's.  Then to another Christmas pageant in our friends Church. where we saw Austin and Parker interview the shepherds and the wise men and all the travelers that went on their way to see Jesus and his parents.. See kids are a big deal.... and then they met up with Joseph and Mary and She has her baby in a BARN!!! wow! it was a fun LLOOOONNNGGG weekend, now we are getting ready for Christmas and looking forward to it EVERY DAY!! Merry Christmas, and may Christ be the center of your celebrations!

"I am dedausted!"

Merry Christmas from our family to yours! 

Happy (pre Hill)

During hill 

lovely picture after hill, which is why Joshy is frowning (poor boy)

Mommy and Hannah and the ginger scene they built

Joshy before we left to go tobogganing 

Joshy as soon a mommy said "say Cheese!"

Well winter is here for a visit, and it brought SNOW with it! and we only say visit as it is to be a high of 12 this weekend, so Snow is going to go else where to visit... please call mom if you want it at your house :). So mommy took us tobogganing, to break Joshy in to a winter sport well it broke Joshy.. we went down the hill so fast that the sled went from under our bums and Joshy went under ME!  but Mommy took the pictures and then took Joshua home. he was much better inside! Daddy and I kept going for a little while. when we came home, Mommy had hot chocolate for us tired sledders, and I was truly dedausted! (exhausted from a four year old vocabulary)  Then on Sunday Mommy and I made a gingerbread house and a ginger bread family :) they sure look delicious :)

Art Class Pay offs!

Hannah smiling after threats to tickle her, if she didn't smile pretty for the camera

I know it's grainy but what a cutie

my first attempt before art class at a self portrait

first attempt at a portrait of Hannah

my fist, 

these are drawn in blind contour, that is looking only at your hand and not at the paper

second attempt at a self portrait before I was even in a class

old portrait done before I took the class

this is a gift I did a year ago for Alice, I copied it off a photo

here it is with the photo

charcoal (done while in class) finding light and shadow

hand done in class

blind contour

eyes and Dr, Phil

Hannah and Joshua

this is from a live model in class (first portrait)

Lucy (done off of T.V)

live model in class

a student in class ( she was drawing the model as well)

model in class

blind contour of model above

Hans

live model

live model 

live models (Hannah and friend)

live model

my boys

charcoal 

charcoal

charcoal  first portrait

live model in charcoal 

piano player in pencil 

Well to much demand here are some of (all)  the items mommy has created, and there may be a familiar face or two.. Enjoy

First feeding, first snow, and Christmas music!

The aftermath of  a self Feed! PRAISE THE LORD!

beautiful snow baby 

lots of snow to shovel 

our new deck

 frost on the branches

Hannah after shoveling loves to do crafts!

Well as of Yesterday we have SNOW! yes that's right the four letter S word, and we are celebrating it :) it was cold and the roads were slippery.  But today the sun is out and so were we. Joshy did well in his first encounter with snow.  He has discovered how hard it is to sit with a round bum, and fell over once but like a trooper got up and cried!  We love to go out on our new deck and shovel what we can, Mommy says it is such a huge difference shoveling and not being pregnant.  She can do it with out having to take a break every 5 seconds!  We have spoken to Auntie Angie and Benjamin twice in the past two weeks on Skype so now Hannah names her babies Joshua and Alexander no matter the gender of the doll.  :) Joshua has fed himself once.  He enjoyed it, and Mommy enjoyed taking pictures and Daddy gave him a bath. We are sure he enjoyed that :)  Daddy is back working in Drumheller.  Mommy takes us to see him when we have nothing else to do that may make us stay home.  Mommy is still in art classes and will post some pictures of her work/progress soon :) we love you and if you want COME PLAY IN THE SNOW WITH US! there is lots for everyone..