Reid Shenanigans

Thanksgiving Feast at School-Lucy's class' contribution was the authentic First Thanksgiving Oreo Cookie Turkey

I'm not so sure about this Santa guy

The ornaments are as much toys as decorations

Cousins love each other!

Yum-pretzel!

Snowman-not pictured Margot

Gingerbread House making

Finished product

At Hudson Gardens

Margot loved Santa but didn't want to have anything to do with him

Sleigh!

Snow Day!

I love my Daddy!

Too much excitment

They were amazed by Santa Doppler

Christmas Eve

Cookies/Treats for Santa and his reindeer

The Adorable Hjortshoj family

You can't see me

Homemade playdoh fun at the Reids' 

Lucy and Elliott

Four Fun Friends

Happy New Year!

Rose Bowl party at Andrea and Jeff's

Go Broncos!

Hotel Swimming

Lucy was her class's January BUG award winner (Bringing Up Grades) which just really means she made a lot of progress in January

Rodeo!

Performing

Mommy Daughter Cowgirls

Calf Ropin'

Lucy and her besties-Sofie and Destinee

These are the songs she performed with her class for the Kindergarten Rodeo

January is quickly coming to an end and thus wraps up another wonderful holiday season.  We had such a nice Christmas with two little girls at the perfect ages to enjoy all of the magic of the season. Our whirlwind trip to Iowa began with a visit to Grandma and Grandpa Marvin's house.  Our girls really associate Iowa with a level of utopia not matched by much else save Disneyland or Hawaii.  In Chariton we baked, played with cousin Eden a lot, visited the Hjortshoj's house in Monroe, ran into the Smiths unexpectedly in Pella, played Christmas bingo and woke up Christmas morning to find out Santa had come!  Whew, what a fun few days.

Christmas morning turned sad with the news that Grandma Foster (Brian's maternal grandmother) passed unexpectedly that morning.  Heaven probably needs angels the most on Christmas Day.  We stayed an extra day in Chariton before heading to Iowa City on Sunday to see the Ellsmore family for one quick day/night but a great visit never-the-less.  Lucy adores their piano and even got to play with Aunt Liz which she just loved.

Then off to Fulton for a very Reid Christmas.  We had an amazing dinner of crab legs and mussels, a fun girls' afternoon out to the bookstore and Bek's and even a last minute lunch at the Mexican restaurant.  The girls are enthralled with the cats milling about the Reid house.  I think they (or at least Lucy) feels the wrath of being the old girl out but had lots of feline friends to keep her company.

Then off to one night only at the Ward house where the girls got to see their friends Elliott and Delaney.  It was a fast, fun night.  I'm so glad we stayed healthy this year and even though it was brief we packed in a ton of fun.

While Daddy was away watching the Rose Bowl we had some friends over for New Years Eve complete with "champagne" and staying up until midnight *cough* 10 pm.  On MLK weekend we thought it would be nice to have a quick get-a-way so we stayed one night in a hotel in Denver and the girls swam their little hearts out and we had a picnic dinner on the hotel bed.  It was a surprise and I don't think they'll forget it anytime soon.

Just this week was a big week in Kindergarten.  Lucy had her Kindergarten Rodeo.  I included all the songs from her performance and some snapshots of the festivities.  She had a blast and was one cute cowgirl!  The pictures I take seem to be pretty heavy on the Lucy and light on the Margot.  Maybe this is a function of her being the oldest?  Or most likely because I get to spend so much time with her every day at school.  What a blessing it has been.

Margot had a bout of croup recently which was rough and resulted in a day home with Mama but we got lots of snuggling time.  She's a real trooper and drumroll please . . . . she's potty trained.  It happened practically overnight.  She still wears Pull-Ups for naps and night time but went from diapers to Pull-Ups to underwear in a matter of two weeks.  She's a determined little girl when she puts her mind to it.  We are so proud of her, but one cute thing she says when I ask her if she needs to go to the potty, "Ok, but don't be proud of me."  I think she got tired real quick of my theatrics when it comes to a poop in the potty.

Hearing we are due for a blizzard this weekend so maybe a bonus day home next week is in order.  Love, The Reids

Fall Fun

Andrew and Lucy at TinyTown

TinyTown Library

We rarely go a full night without one of them snuggling 

12th Anniversary

Book of Mormon for our big anniversary date

She's a Kindergartner!

Posing in front of the red door Grandpa painted

Meeting Elsa and Anna at the school carnival

At the Great American Beer Festival

Seattle!

I just read online that they have recently sandblasted the gum wall.  Glad we got to see it.  Actually it was really gross.

Scotty!

Lindsey, Scott, Brian and Me

Brrrr!

Original Starbucks

Aunt Amber's quick visit

In front of the Nightmare Before Christmas Pumpkin statue

Love downtown Littleton this time of year!

Lucy strutting after scoring her 3rd goal in one game!

Rainbows!

Cooper and Toy Cooper

Pumpkin Patch of course

Lucy loves carving pumpkins-Margot says "meh"

At School

Lucy and her classmates in the school parade

Same day we had the Dragon Dash-Lucy crossing the finish line

3rd place girl!!!

Nana's Halloween party

Our Little Dutch Girls

Lucy loved the find the candy in the powered sugar game at the Flemings' Halloween party

This one's a keeper

Lucy at school with her name cupcake

Scored some great presents-loves her new keyboard

Getting make-up done at her makeover birthday party

Lucy and Brooklyn (a bestie) all gussied up

The Party Gang-
Bottom row-Destinee, Gracie
Middle row-Brooklyn, Sofie, Amelia
Lucy!
(barely pictured-Margot)

The Cake

Happy 6th Birthday

Photo Slideshow

Click on the Photo Slideshow link to see the slideshow our photographer put together with pictures from our photo shoot in October.

Crystal Update-Started my second year at East Elementary.  I'm still teaching ELD (English Language Development) and co-teaching exclusively in Kindergarten which means lots of time with Lucy!  Most of my free time is gobbled up with the girls' stuff (okay, Lucy's stuff, Margot doesn't do much as far as organized stuff yet).  We traveled to Seattle at the beginning of October to visit my BFF from high school, Scott, and his wife Lindsey.  They are expecting their first baby in December so we wanted to go visit before that happened.  I loved Seattle so much!  It's my kind of city for sure.  We went to the Pike's Place Market, out to eat at some great places, traveled up the space  needle and enjoyed our time at their adorable house.  It was gorgeous and sunny the whole time. A super big thank you to Judy and Fred for watching the girls! My 37th birthday was great.  We celebrated with brunch at Snooze and then homemade pizza on the day before.

Brian Update-He joined a bowling league this fall and gets to bowl every Monday night which he's loving.  He is super pumped about the Hawkeyes being 11-0 of course.  Not much else to report on his end.  Just living the dream as he says!

Lucy Update-Lucy started Kindergarten in Ms. Vander Velde's class.  She loves recess, lunch, PE, music and art.  And she says she loves the times when mommy comes to teach in her room.  Despite only claiming to enjoy the fun stuff she is doing great with reading and math and gets to do an extra enrichment reading group at the end of the day.  Despite losing 2 pairs of scissors, her lunch stick and more glue sticks than you can ever imagine she usually completes her work (usually).
She did awesome on her soccer team-the Rainbows.  They started the season loosing every game but were winners by the end and Lucy started scoring goals about midseason and never stopped to look back.
She just moved up to Intermediate in gymnastics which she loves, loves, loves.  She still loves swimming lessons on Friday nights, too.  She got a clean bill of health on her 6 year check up and is in the 11th percentile for height and 30th for weight (41 pounds).  Doctor warned her that Margot will probably overtake her in height one of these days.


Margot Update-Sweet Margot is doing fantastic as a 2 1/2 year old.  She loves going to Nana's, coloring, dancing, loving on her baby dolls and playing in the snow.  She had a fever that lasted a few days early in November but other than that she's been really healthy.  She went along to Lucy's doctor appointment so we found out she weighs 27 pounds and is in the 78% for height and 25% for weight. She doesn't mind tagging along to Lucy's stuff and has been a huge trooper.Both girls live for Saturday night movie nights.

Cooper Update-He's old.  He had a growth removed earlier this fall and we found out it was cancerous but the vet felt good that they got it all when it was removed.  I'm hoping he doesn't know he's going to be boarded for 10 days at Christmas.  Poor guy.

Be on the lookout for the Reid Family Christmas card featuring pictures from our photo shoot!