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Some highlights from Conor’s birthday, which included me reading to his classroom and him organizing an arcade for the family in the basement!! But no cake for this guy — just cookies and brownies!!

we love you!!!

Conor loves Christmas and wanted a Christmas gift exchange party with friends. We turned it into an early bday party bc I didn’t want to host 10 kindergartners twice!

games included pin the carrot nose on the snowman, bozo the clown bucket game, and Christmas gift steal/swap. Underutilized stations included ornament decorating, legos and magnatiles  After Conor hurt his toe on a Lego container and was just overstimulated from too much noise, we turned on the grinch movie and that settled things down

conor is lucky to have made so many nice friends in the neighborhood and at school

He was also very excited that Buddy the Elf was here too!

Natalie was in the Nutcracker. She was amazing!! She has been working every Sunday since September to prepare for the four performances this weekend. She was a solider in two of the performances and a debutante in the other two. Not only is she a beautiful and graceful dancer, but her expressions and mannerisms as a part of the party scene were spot on. She had a whole crew on Saturday night gathered to see her performance — Grandma, Kenzie, Dad, Elliott, Mom, Clayton, Nana, Pop, her best friend Kalina and Kalina’s mom. Jira made her an absolutely gorgeous Nutcracker bouquet, complete with Nutcrackers, roses, and hazelnut chocolates. (I knew I couldn’t compete with that so we got her a card and a Starbucks gift card.)

Grandma & Erin working concessions!

Post-Saturday night’s performance!

I have to clear out my photos so Jordan can use some for a Christmas calendar. I have nearly 1500. Here’s a sample of why there are extra extra this year!!

Conor’s “tricks” as he went around the neighborhood…

What do clouds wear under their pants?
Thunderwear

How do you make a tissue dance?
Put a little boogie in it

Why do seagulls fly over the sea?
Because if they flew over the bay, they would be called bagels!

Elliot did tech crew for the play at his middle school, Robin Hood. He applied for costumes. I guess costumes in middle school isn’t the most busy responsibility, so he had a lot of downtime and might explore lights or audio for the spring musical. We are proud of him for trying something new, meeting new people, and putting in the effort. The students really did an incredible job and the play was funny. It even had Ken references from the Barbie movie. Nice job Station! Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Alex, Clayton, and I went to the Saturday night performance… and Jordan, Pop and Conor went to the Sunday afternoon performance (no pics taken at that one!)

All kinder/1st grade teams make it to the Super Bowl because supposedly scores aren’t kept all season. Despite not winning any games, the Seahawks played in one of five Super Bowls vs the Eagles. They scored one touchdown and their team name was called across the loudspeaker at the high school stadium. Conor tried to get out of played due to yesterday’s injuries — scraping both knees twice while running on concrete. (Once down our driveway in crocs and another time at Crabtree nature center towards a sign that was decidedly not on the concrete). Beautiful weather for a game and many family members in the cheering section! He helped me make his sign. The blue box says the word ghost because it’s almost Halloween, the bottom boxes are spirit wear, and smiley faces off  his shoulder cover up a kid who he didn’t want in his pic

go Seahawks