A Decade of Judson

One of these days, maybe I'll get a chance to blog about something other than birthdays! But for now, we are busy with life and that's just how it is.

Judson turned ten years old on May 2!  The boys are all in "double digits" now.  Here are a few pictures from his special day. He is the only one who really still gets very excited about his birthday, so it's fun to try to make it special for him.

 Cake made to his specifications

Goodie box from Grandma and Grandpa!

 

Always full of drama!

We love our Judson and can't imagine life without him!  

Jonathan's 12th Birthday

We celebrated Jonathan's 12th birthday yesterday!  Here are a few photos from the day.

A special breakfast, requested by him.

A shirt from Grandma, which suits him perfectly!

"I'm not lazy I just really enjoy doing nothing"

He liked this paint canvas set.

He REALLY like this!

This is the Brazilian soccer logo that is on the official jersey...per his request.

These boys are growing up so quickly. Let me know if anyone knows how to slow this process down!

Christmas Program at Church

Since Christmas was on a Sunday this year, things were a little different. Most Brazilians celebrate on the night of Christmas Eve, so we had our normal services on Sunday with some special activities added in. 

For a little over a year I have been teaching a Sunday school class for 2-6 year olds. We have four little girls who are there every Sunday, and I have really enjoyed teaching them. They are still sort of small to do a Christmas program with any speaking parts, and they all tend to freeze up in front of people, so I decided to have them just dress up to illustrate parts of the Christmas story as Jeremy read the passage from Luke 2. By the way, that's Josiah playing the piano in the background!

I think they had a good time doing it, and they sure looked cute. It's in Portuguese, of course, but if you want to watch it, here it is. We had the camera on a tripod, and it took Jonathan a few minutes to realize that Jeremy's head was cut off! 😀

Part 1

 

Part 2

Here are a few snapshots from when they did it for the morning service as a practice.

Merry Christmas!

Just a few pictures of our day on Christmas. We actually celebrated on Christmas Eve since we had church events on Sunday. It was a nice day together with no schedules or deadlines, just enjoying the time together. We missed our families that are spread all over the world, but we enjoyed video Skyping with grandparents which made them seem not quite as far away. 

No, he didn't really get a blender...but looks like he would have been happy with one!

Actually, the only thing he asked for was a globe, so he was happy to get this one.

When Your Spelling Memory Tricks Go Wrong

This TYRANT could be the next villain on "Veggie Tales"

A Little Bit of Pink

For obvious reasons (three of them), we don't have a lot of pink around our house.  This is reflected in many areas, one of which is my cake decorating hobby.  All of the cakes I make have definite boys themes. 

Recently, however, I had the opportunity to make a girly cake for a little girl from our church. I enjoyed it, and I think she liked it too.

God has given us a bunch of little girls in our church group, and it has been fun to be "aunt" to them.

Christmas Calories

Yesterday we did our annual Christmas cookie decorating.  It's a bit of a mess, but the boys have a lot of fun with this. We all got involved this year, and it really was fun. The boys improve every year! Maybe someday we can go into business! 😄