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Christmas Cards…the Digital Way!

I was never very good at sending out the Annual Christmas Card complete with photo and update on each member of the family.  But now that I have found blogging and Smilebox…

I am so on top of it this year!

Wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

(and in case you can’t read what is on the Smilebox, I have put it below as well)

 

What a great year we have had at the Schaff house. It came with its ups and downs as every year does. But at the end we are all happy and healthy and very grateful for this time of year. We hope that this finds each of you doing well this holiday season. Here is a little update on each of us...

Chloe (age 3) She is a little charmer. She loves princesses and can't decide if Cinderella is the favorite or Belle. She is working on being a big girl using the potty and doing things " my by-a self". She has a play group every week with all the little girls in the neighborhood and can't wait for Avery to get home from school every day.

Avery (age 6) She is in first grade this year and is learning that it is sometimes hard to grow up. Being in school a full day has been hard because there is not much time to play! "It's just too long being there!" she says. However, she is doing very well and loves to read. She is even starting to enjoy the math too. She is still enjoying her dance class and has started piano lessons and loves that even more than dance. She lost 4 teeth this year...the tooth fairy is tapped out!

Hallie is enjoying her time at home...when she gets to stay home! She is serving in the Relief Society as the 1st Counselor and is over the weekday activities. This keeps her busy, especially this time of year. She has decided that exercise is not too bad as long as the weather is nice and there is good conversation. She enjoys doing some volunteer tutoring with students from Avery's class once a week in reading. She's ready for her long winter's nap!

Stephen is still working for ARUP and still loves his job. He is currently a teacher in the Elder's Quorum and actually finds that he likes it. He loves spending time with his girls and has brought back the popular Schaff Family Animal game. He enjoys playing x-box on line with brother David and friends and the occasional monster hunt on the Wii with Paul.

Merry Christmas...we love you all!

My How Time Flies!

I got a great new camera for my birthday (thank you honey!) and I have had lots of fun learning how to best use the darn thing.  Therefore…there are a lot of pictures on that little memory card!  So here are a few that might tell the story of September, October and November of 2010 at the Schaff House… Enjoy!

We’ve potty trained the princess and played at the park, we went with some friends to the zoo.  We went to the pumpkin patch, wandered around and picked out the perfect ones too! 

 

We played in the leaves and got all dressed up for a dance recital—how fun!.  Then in Halloween costumes, so cute and so sweet, except Uncle Brandon’s “Jack Skellington”.

The Katers turned 3 and got all that she wanted, from princesses, bears and things.  She had a big party with cousins and friends, they played games, opened gifts and Happy Birthday did sing.

 

These rhymes are so goofy, it’s after midnight.  This one of Katers was a sweet, tender sight.

 

Thanksgiving turkeys, what more can I say…Thank goodness we planned on 2 turkeys that day!  The black one was smoked, a little scary, I think.  It tasted great, but boy did it stink!

I tried my hand at some fresh baked bread fun.  The table was set to fit everyone.

Thanks for enduring this really long post, I should now go to bed, some sweet dreams to host.

There’s more to come before the year turns a new, maybe some Christmas and Santa Clause too.

 

I’m done, I promise…good-night everybody!

Hope you enjoyed September, October and November as much as we did!