Christmas Blessings from The Pearce Family!

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I did it! Yay me.

So I found this adorable crocheted cloche hat on Pinterest:

Isn't this so cute? The pattern is by Maize Hutton and the tutorial can be found as a guest post here. Easy enough for me...and fast too!
See?

I know, I know...terrible pictures and terrible lighting. But cute, right? And yes, the flower is huge cuz I love flowers!





Reindeer Noses! Treats

Don't know if this is disturbing or genius...but Mags helped her brother, Jack make a treat for his teacher! Malt balls and a red jaw breaker! I'm going with genius...brilliant girl!

Thanksgiving Love

This is the first year in I don't know how many that we were home for Thanksgiving. That means I got to decorate a Thanksgiving table! Lovely, no?

The leaves are from a Popcorn Tree in our front yeard. Jack & Maggie collected and cleaned them then set them out to dry. Perfect colors!

David started an awesome new tradition as well:

This was a plain placemat that one of the kids brought home from school a couple of years ago. Don't ask me who...I can't keep up! I don't recall. It is laminated and had nothing on it that was made by kids...I don't even know why we kept it! But David found a dry erase marker, and everyone shared their thankfulness. We are one blessed family!

Pearce Family Christmas 2010 eCard

Redneck Family!

Who's scarier?  Me with a shotgun or Maggie and Jack driving? ;-)

Maggie's Squad Performs at Award Ceremony

It's only fair to say that all the little squads did either a cheer or a dance for the Upward Basketball Award Ceremony. However...Maggie's group was definitely the best if we do say so ourselves!! Here is a sequence of pictures of their dance...look at that SUPER HIGH toe touch!

Rah Rah Maggie!

The cutest cheerleader EVER!!!!
Maggie cheered her first Upward basketball game this morning. She was rewarded the "Leadership" star! Pretty great for someone who was so nervous that you could barely hear her on the first cheer!

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Josh Plays Ball

Josh played his first basketball game with Upward last night! He got the star for "Best Defense"!!

More pictures, click Josh's First Basketball Game

Family Fun on New Year's Eve!

We all had a blast up at the church New Year's Eve for a night of family fun! I can't believe we all made it to midnight without any meltdowns!!

Pretty In Pink

I took these a few days after Christmas. Cutie pies all in pink!

Maggie, cruising around on her new electric scooter.

Her best bud, Elise had spent the night and they managed to find identical outfits to wear!

Molly is sporting pink in both her clothing and her cool new digital camera!

From Pretty in Pink

Christmas morning...

More Christmas Eve!

Molly, Maggie and Jack find a new perspective for tree gazing!

Maggie lost her tooth at Grandma & Grandpa's house. David insisted that it was just not possible to have a visit from the Tooth Fairy and Santa...that's just way too much magic for one night!!!

"Dear Lord, thank you for the bounty of this meal of which I have just consumed."

Christmas Eve at Grandma & Grandpa's

Every year we go to David's parents' for Christmas Eve. We have a HUGE seafood feast and everyone stuffs themselves silly! Afterwards, all the children re-enact the Christmas story with the youngest playing Baby Jesus. However, all the babies were toddlers so Baby Jesus was a doll this year! Not to worry though...THREE of our nieces are expecting, so I don't believe we'll lack for a participant next year! We might have to perform it three times!!

After the performance, we exchange gifts! Names were drawn at Thanksgiving with the children. The adults however opted out of exchanging gifts for a new tradition. Our niece, Meghan, who works with an inner city school, found a family that was struggling. So all the adults contributed to providing Christmas for this family. There were three trunkloads of food, clothing, toys, baby supplies, etc!! A small delegation delivered and shared the experience! For all of us, it was a REAL Christmas story!

As you can see from the pictures, the kids still exchanged gifts and that is always crazy!!

The Mystery of the Manger

All three performed in the children's Christmas musical. Not only that, they all three had solos! They are such gifted singers!

A Beautiful Angel!

Maggie and I both performed in the "Silent Night" ballet this year. The ballet tells the story of Jesus from His birth to resurrection. Maggie and her classmates were angels (obviously) and danced to a special rendition of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". I'm trying to get the video uploaded...it's such a cool way to worship!

Molly Sings with Adult Choir!

Molly was chosen to sing in a select children's ensemble to perform with the adults during the Christmas Cantata. They did such a beautiful job singing "Away in a Manger" (while the adults sang a completely different song, no less!)that I heard from several people they brought tears to many eyes!!!
She definitely does NOT get that voice from me!

A Night in Bethlehem

Our church celebrated a night in Bethlehem for the first time and it was a HUGE hit!! I think the adults had as much fun as the children and everyone wanted it to last longer!

A Night in Bethlehem 2007

Hanging of the Greens

The kids always enjoy choosing their favorite Chrismons ornament and then it's on to cookies with Santa!

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