Christmas with Grandpa Smith

We got together today with Grandpa Smith at Kristi and John's house.  Lisa and her boys also came up from West Virginia for an early Christmas with Grandpa Smith.(Grandpa Smith lives in Hawaii and was in DC for a  work seminar)

Friday night we went to the DC temple to see the Christmas lights, live nativity, and a performance of a DC area bell choir.  (Picture at left) The lights were beautiful, the concert was great and in the vistor center we enjoyed seeing the nativity (creches) from around the world. Click here for link to information about the festival. 

Today we all got together to eat lots of food and open presents.  Grandpa Smith's big gift was an iPod touch.  Morgan got an iTunes gift card for her MP3 player.  She was really excited.  Ethan got a remote control airplane.  We took it outside and flew it around the yard.  It only got caught in 2 trees and one neighbor's backyard with a fence.  But it was always rescued.  He loves it!  Drew got a really fun Geotrax Airport.  The plane actually flys around the track that loops up in the air.

Here is a picture of the Christmas pagent the kids put on this evening.  Notice the great costumes.  All the cousins had their parts.

Ethan's Birthday Party

Here are some pictures from Ethan's birthday party on Wednesday.    Grandpa Smith was here and lots of cousins for the party.  Ethan was so excited to get this dinosaur webkin along with all the other fun presents he got.  

  

Here's a short video clip of Ethan blowing out the candles on his birthday brownie cake.

Georgetown basketball game

Here's a picture from the Georgetown basketball game where Ethan, Morgan, and I watched the game from the VW suite. We had a great time and Georgetown crushed Savannah State. Jenna stayed home with Drew since it would be too late for him.  Final score was Georgetown 100 and Savannah State 38.

Morgan's 5K Race

Yesterday Morgan, Grandpa Little, and I ran the Reindeer Romp 5K.   Grandma Little, Jenna, Drew and Ethan came out to cheer Morgan on.  It was so cold, like 20 degrees without the windchill.  Even with that weather they were out to support her.  

Morgan ran really well and finished in 

33 minutes 17 seconds.  Here's a link to the results. She was number 141 out of 1,150 girls who ran in her age group.    http://results.active.com/pages/displayNonGru.jsp?rsID=73882&orgID=234639&pubID=2

Thanksgiving Weekend

We had Jenna's family in town for Thanksgiving weekend.  Joe and Edith were the only ones not here.  (We missed you both!)  We had a big Thanksgiving dinner, took the kids to the Bounce House with all the blow-up slides and moon walks.  Then Saturday we went to the Imax at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum to watch the Deep Sea 3-D movie.  The kids loved it.  Here are some pictures from the event.