Carly Christmas Program

 
Yep.  That's what it was.  A Christmas Program.  Carly sang. She smiled. She was amazing. I loved it!  My favorite was "Santa's name has no L", sung to the tune of NOEL.  Here are the lyrics...very entertaining.

To spell Santa's name, is easy to do...

You write S, A, N, T, and another A too...
But No L, No L, Santa's name has no L...
And he wun be too pleased if you don't learn to spell...

Jack and Jill went up a hill to fetch water from a well,
But when neither one could find it, Jill started to yell...
"No well, no well, can't believe there's no well!
We walked all the way here and I'm mad can’t you tell..."

Captain Ahab took his crew his harpoon and set sail...
And he called out to ships "Have you seen the white whale?"
"No whale, No whale, No we ain't see no whale...
Saw a couple of dolphins, and a big yellow tail..."

If you listen to this tune, then you probably can tell...
That you've heard it before, it's a song you know well...
Know Well, Know Well, it's a song you know well...
And we've ruined it completely so we all say "Oh Well"
Oh Well, Oh Well, we just say fare thee well...
Merry Christmas to you and a joyous Noel...


It's been way fun for Carly and Hannah (cousins) to be in the same class this year!

A Jenson Christmas

The kids have been waiting all year for this party.  And of course, the morning of, Chase throws up, then me... :(  Carly had been practicing "Santa Baby" for over a month, and when she found out I might not be able to help her, the look on her face about broke my heart.  So....I went in my pj's, kept a low profile, and toughed it out.  My new baby nephew was the VIP...



I kept my distance :(  We (or should I say THEY) enjoyed the traditional Jenson family dinner.  Ham, cheese, rolls, cheese ball, crackers, christmas jell-o, slush and all sorts of goodies.


After that, we all meet downstairs to watch a short nativity movie, then it's on to the beloved talent show!  It's more descriptive name is probably a VARIETY show.  Logan did "The Enlargenator" where you put up a big curtain and throw something behind it, and it comes out the other side bigger.  Carly sang "Santa Baby" (her choice) which she memorized and practiced dilligently for at least a month.  Chase couldn't decide, but he'd heard Carly so much, that he ALSO had "Santa Baby" memorized, so he did a lip sync to the same song.  No pictures of my kids because I was video taping and Frank refuses to participate in any way :(

There are instruments, tumbling, dancing, jokes, singing, but one of the great originals this year were Jason and Adam's Chins singing, "My Hearts a Stereo"...Hil-ar-i-ous!

 And last....the white elephant.  Everyone is supposed to bring a $5 gift.  With 30 grandkids, this takes a while.  We love watching the little ones get so offended when someone actually dares to take away their gift!

Crepes With Friends

When our friend Lindsay moved to Seattle over a year ago, we have all been getting together everytime she comes into town for some breakfast.  We usually stay so long, you could practically call it lunch too.  We have so much fun!  This time breakfast was at my house since none have them have been over yet.  I decided on crepes.  My sister gave me recipes for some mac daddy toppings (and even helped me make them)...thanks Stacy!  We had:

Caramel Sauce

Hazelnut Spread

Vanilla Custard

Lemon Curd

Triple Berry Sauce

Sweet Cream Cheese

Bananas

Strawberries

Whipped Cream

Everyone could create their own concoction, and you really couldn't go wrong.   Wish they would have finished it all off though...pretty sure I gained at least five pounds the following week!

Here's our darling Julie doing what ever it took (even stacking wii games and nativity blocks) in and ATTEMPT to capture the "pefect" group pohoto...

...too bad she has these yayhoos as subjects!