Frontier Culture Museum Lantern Tour

Abby and Jack, after the tour:

Sunday School Art

Benji has been working hard in Sunday School and is proud of the art he is making.  Here is a piece based on a Jewish artist they were studying:

Folding the Flag

More stuff he is learning at Cub Scouts:

Crown Princess

Duck Donuts

We make a run for it in our PJs (except Abby, of course, who got dressed), because it was just that sort of Saturday morning:

Art Gallery

I am going to use the time we are traveling for the holidays to catch up on some "lost" posts (i.e., things that did not get posted right away because they were not time sensitive): 

The kids were very excited about this (you can see it is also a few weeks old since the sign is on our Thanksgiving decoration):

Other Things We've Been Doing -- Whew!

We've had a packed few weeks, so I thought I would do a round up of "little" events we've attended:

Monticello Open House:

On the bus

Meeting Mr. Jefferson at the front door

The Lighting of the Lawn:

CBI Creative Chanukkiah contest entry:

The Eight Snowmen of Hanukkah

Glee Club Concert

Benji was riveted

Rabbi Tom's 10th Anniversary at CBI:

Benji's class sang a verse of Hey Loddy La (so did Abby's)

Walker Field trip to UVA Woman's Basketball game:

Abby's artwork was featured in the arena

Abby and her friends

Another night of Hanukkah (with Abby wearing her new owl sweater):

The lighting of the blade at the Paramount:

Waldorf Christmas Fair

We've attended this fun event near our house each of the last few years and we always have a good time:

Dipping candles

Making a candleholder

Isn't it pretty?

Cookie Decorating

Wreath making (maybe our best on yet!)

Mrs. Claus Invites

This is an annual event at the Omni that we used to take Abby to every year.  After several years away, I decided to take Benji after school, since he had not had a chance to visit with Santa yet and this seemed like a good alternative.  He really enjoyed his chat with Mrs. Claus, although he told her he hd not made up his mind about a gift yet and then spent a good amount of time explaining how Blue Henry speaks to Scarlet, our elf-on-the-shelf:

Julia's 12th Birthday

She had her traditional sleepover (this year it was candy-themed):

skittles race

Abby was surprisingly good at this (moving skittles with a straw)

Spoons

Abby, as she claimed victory

12 candles!

Win, Lose or Draw

Trying to unwrap starburst with oven mitts on

The next day, in anticipation of our trip to Escape Room, the girls created a murder mystery puzzle for us:

 

Sophia, with the murder weapon

That evening, we went to our actual Escape Room puzzle, which was tons of fun (and we made it out just under the one hour limit!):

The group, after our victorious escape