More Christmas Photos….
Cody and Liz both got some good photos at Christmas time on their cameras…so here are a few of them (a little late)…
Above: Lynn, looking beautiful as always!
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Cody and Liz both got some good photos at Christmas time on their cameras…so here are a few of them (a little late)…
Above: Lynn, looking beautiful as always!
We had another fun night bowling with Aunt Sandi, Uncle Larry, Seth & Hannah…
Above – VIDEO ALERT: I know this is sideways…but it was so good I had to put it on anyway (I keep forgetting that during video recordings I can’t turn the camera sideways). For people that know the “quiet Donovan” at school…this video would be SHOCKING!!!
Above: Too bad I didn’t video one of those many strikes instead
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Above: “I told you I couldn’t do it!!”
Here are some recent odds and ends (mostly January 2009):
Above: This is a poster that PJ came up with. It has been on the fridge since last April. We finally decided to retire it to PJ’s scrapbook…but we had to scan it and put it on the blog first.
Above: This is a “Family Home Evening” Group that we belong to now. As you can see, we constitute almost half of the group (a couple of families are missing though). Most of them have been doing this group for years and years, but now a lot of their kids are off to college (they are home here – Christmas time), so they recruited the Noldens to help bolster their numbers back up
Above: All of our Elementary-aged kids received an award at the school’s quarterly awards Assembly. Both PJ and Don had all A’s (although it is just a percentage and no letter is attached – why do they do that because we all still attach the letter to it to establish significance?). Ashley was on the A/B Honor Roll…which was an awesome improvement for her (she works really hard). I love the awards assemblies because the kids come home with a lot of “freebies” from the community (like free kids meal at Applebees!!!). Megan also had straight A’s last quarter/semester.
Above: This is Donovan receiving his award from his teacher Ms. Ferry. I was using Liz’s nice camera, but I couldn’t get close enough to get a good picture because all of the kids were sitting in the front. So, this and the next couple of photos are pretty bad…but I thought I would put them on anyway.
Above: Megan participated in her first Spelling Bee this past month….which seems really weird to me since she is in 8th grade. When I was in school we had them in 4th grade through 7th grade (and we walked UP HILL to get to them!)…but the schools we have been in up until now haven’t really stressed Spelling Bees. Unfortunately, she didn’t do as well as she had hoped…but it was a really good experience for her. She felt better the next week though when she placed 3rd at her school in the MathCounts competition. She will go to a regional competition at Georgia Tech next month to represent her school.
Above: This is Megan and me right after the Spelling Bee. I had a GREAT time there because while I was sitting down waiting, one of Megan’s teachers came up behind me and mistook me for Megan….until I turned around…and then he was like, “UUUHHHHHH….”
Above: PJ getting the worst of it.
Above: Huh?
Above: Oh…King Tut… Pretty fancy.
Cody got a new camera for Christmas! AND, he started posting photos on his blog…so now we will be better able to keep up with him and what is going on his life at BYU.
Check out his Blog:
We had been told that we HAD to visit the Blue Willow Inn…so we did…and we took Grandma and Grandpa Searles with us.
The Blue Willow Inn is an establishment of delectable Southern Cooking. The flavor of the food was so so wonderful and the ambiance was very elegant and “Southern.” It was a buffet…one price covers everything. So, needless to say…we tried EVERYTHING. It was all soooo very gooood.
We would highly recommend it. It is in Social Circle, Georgia….it was a 30 minute drive for us…but worth it.
Megan and Liz both got a haircut the other day. I took the BEFORE pictures…but I forgot to get the AFTER pictures. But they were cute so I decided to put them in anyway.
You can check out Megan’s though on her new Blog: http://megan-diane.blogspot.com/
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