Traveling Nativity

Here is the cast of our traveling nativity

This year for Christmas Eve, Teressa decided that it would be more fun to take our nativity out to the public rather than just keeping it inside the walls of our home. Even though we had Mark and Heather Hill and their kids over to the house for Christmas Eve dinner, there weren't any extra people to watch the performance after all of the parts had been taken. So we travelled to a couple of different houses, performed the nativity and sang Christmas carols. Even though it was cold and windy (well, cold for San Antonio, anyway), it was a lot of fun and brought us some great Christmas spirit.

Mason and Spencer were wise men, Teressa was a wise woman and Sam and I were shepherds. The parts of Mary and Joseph were played by Olivia and Luke Hill while Mark was the angel and Heather was the narrator and the star of Bethlehem.

Pasta surprise

This pasta replica of Jamestown took hours to create


The worst part of the project was putting the walls together

Mason recently came home with the assignment to build a model of Jamestown for school. One of the criteria for grading was creative use of materials, so we came up with the bright idea to build the model out of different types of pasta. At least it seemed like a bright idea until I started putting the walls together out of fettucini. Many hours later, the model was finally done. Monday, we sent the model to class, and guess what: No other kid had made their model out of pasta, so at least we have that creative use of materials down.

Game day update

Mason's basketball team, the Timberwolves, played their first game today. Mason even played against Cameron, his good friend from kindergarten. Mason's team won 20-4 with a combination of good offense and stifling defense. Spencer plays his first game this afternoon, so I'll try to update again.