Early Thanksgiving

On Sunday we spent Thanksgiving at Roger's parent's house. We had a very nice time and the boys were pretty well-behaved for what they could have been for staying up past 10 and no naps for S.Jessen. Of course he said "frickin fish" to Cole and that started a ruckus, but all in all it was a good day. It's always nice getting to be with family :) We had a hard time wanting to come back to work for three days though. It was quite a tease. Here are a few pics of the day that I could get. We tried to get a family pic for our Christmas card, but Tate is very difficult and usually throws a sweet little fit when he sees the camera. I can sometimes hardly believe he is going to be 2 next month and then that behavior happens and I remember...

Lord, please grant us a little, or a lot of sanity over the holidays.

Belated Winner

Here are some pics of S.Jessen's Fun Night at his school. He won third place as Woody from Toy Story. Too funny! He told the lady with the microphone that Woody says, "I've got a snake in my boot," and she kind of pushed him to pretend she was scared. He totally didn't get it and told me the lady pushed him. I saw the whole thing and got it on video, but it's too long to upload. He did do a nice job performing, but it was serious business and he could wave to me, but not look out at me. He was so focused on his marching in a circle with the others for the judges.

It was a fun night for our little family to get out together. They had a lot of just S.Jessen and Tater sized games in S.Jessen's preschool room. He really does love preschool. S.Jessen "Woody" and the other preschoolers/kindergartners-the kid on his left won first prize!
"Woody" and Mommy
Daddy and Po-Tater
The Winners

A Winner

S.Jessen won third place at his school for his Woody costume. He kept calling himself a "winner" all night. I'll put pics up this weekend. It really was a fun time. We are having parent-teacher conferences this week. While they are helpful, they are exhausting!

Bummed

I feel very bummed about what I have to post. We have already seen previews about the Golden Compass and thought for sure it would be just like the Chronicles of Narnia series. I thought we would definitely go see it over Christmas break and then I read this:

You may already know about this, but I just learned about a kids movie coming out in December starring Nicole Kidman. I believe it's called The Golden Compass, and while it will be a watered down version, it is based on a series of children's books about killing God (it is anti-Narnia).
Please follow this link, and then pass it on. From what I understand, the hope is to get a lot of kids to see the movie - which won't seem too bad - and then get the parents to buy the books for their kids for Christmas. The quotes from the author sum it all up. Why on earth anyone, would want children to lose hope and to lose their faith in God is beyond me.

Click on the "snopes" link below and it will give you more info about this movie. There is no need to have children's books that talk about killing God.

http://snopes.com/politics/religion/compass.asp

I went to the link and it talks about how in this guy's third book, there is a boy and girl supposed to be like Adam and Eve and they kill God. These are children's books! They even discuss castration and female circumcision, no kidding! Like I said, I'm pretty bummed. We were looking forward to seeing it.