Meeting Santa

First things first....GOOBER GOT A 99 ON HIS SPELLING TEST!!!!!  He only missed a point for making a letter backwards. Can you say mom and dad happy dance? We both were standing in the kitchen when we saw the test and broke out into white girl and white boy dance times 10!! Then Adam started rapping and we sang a song about how smart Goob was. Both kids just looked at us and I bet they secretly wondered who these crazy people were. It makes that one night of heartache almost worth it.....almost.
We are continually making friends here in Bedford, thanks to Mrs. Ribbit. She charmed everyone in line at the bank yesterday with Adam. He said she flirted with everyone. Today at Wal-Mart she sang Happy Birthday to each passing person. The lucky lady in line behind us also got "Mary Lamb" and a rendition of Jingle Bells. Me and the kids went to an 8th grade girls basketball game the other day and and took our dinner with us. The minute we got there Ribbit grabbed her french fries, ketchup and hiked up the bleachers to sit with Mrs. Arce ( i have both of her daughters in art class) and offered to feed her french fries. Then she got her book out of her happy meal and took it to a mom from the opposing team and said " read it" and started turning the pages saying " mommy killy--translation Mommy Kitty", "killy sleeping", killy go nigh nigh". The mom was smitten and when Ribbit closed the book and said " De End" she laughed out loud...that girl will never have any enemies.
We have lots going on this week. We are hosting all my 7th grade bible and art girls here for a party on Friday night. Don't worry we haven't gone crazy but now that we live so close we can do fun things outside of school with my sweet students. So far 19 of them have RSVP'd so sounds like a full house :). We are having a Cookie Swap and a Tacky Christmas Sweater contest.....should be lots of fun! Goober has football practice and a game this weekend. We also have our new sunday school class Christmas Pajama Party and Kids Book Swap....we are very excited to go and get to know our new church family better.
Here are some pictures from a Christmas Party we went to last weekend......it was hosted by one of Goober's very best friends. They had Mr. and Mrs. Clause there and all kinds of food and crafts and games for the kids.

Enjoy the pics!
Making a pink reindeer ornament. This child is going to love us for the pictures with all of her chins!

 Goob got mad at us for not letting him slide in the mud outside....such mean parents!

 Ribbit's finished ornament!

 See Mommy, I paint!

This picture shows their true colors....the three amigos!

 Carols with the Mr. and Mrs.

 Raise your hand if you know " Silent Night". When we started to sing not a one of them sang!

 Mrs. Clause shared a story about Jesus with the children....awesome! Ribbit paid a lot of attention :)

 I wouldn't post the same picture this many times except to show you what we go through to get a nice smile out of Goober...check out all of these great faces ...bwa haha ha.

 Really Goob, Really?

 Almost?

 Goob lasted about 2 minutes and then went off with the boys....Ribbit stayed to chat a while.

 Our first family Christmas picture with the Clause's ....Doesn't Adam look like a rich white boy?

 Just charming away.

 Look at how happy Goob is to be with his bestest best friend!!

 All those sweet little boys!