The Meditation of My Heart: January 2011

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Snowman Family Project

Today we worked on Sophie's Snowman Family Project for school. She had to come up with a scene representing all of her family members as snowmen in her favorite season. She also had to incorporate one penny somewhere in the scene (it's stuck in the beach ball) and list each family member's name on the scene. The projects will be on display in her classroom during the school's open house this Thursday.

Summer is Sophie's favorite season, and she loves to spend time at Grammy and Grandpa's pool (I think she also enjoys the fact that she doesn't have to go to school).

I'm in the lounge chair reading a magazine. Jason is standing in the flippers. Chloe is on the slide. Charlotte is floating in the pool. And Sophie is playing in the snow with her shovel and pail.

Monday, January 10, 2011

The Nye Christmas

We spent New Year's Day celebrating Christmas with Jason's family. We started the day off with breakfast, took our annual family photos, then headed to the basement for the Christmas festivities! Jason's dad reads the Christmas story from Luke every year, the grandkids get to open their stockings and gifts, and then we clear them out so there is room for the adults to open gifts. There are a lot of people and each gift is opened individually so everyone gets a chance to see. This is a pretty long process, so we opened for a while, took a break for lunch, opened the rest, and headed home around 7:30 PM after the last gift was opened. It was a wonderful way to end the Christmas season!

(I will preface the pictures buy saying that the family photos are all missing Jennifer's oldest child, Brad, and his wife, Danielle. They did not come until later in the afternoon.)