Christmas morning

A few pictures of our Christmas Day morning 2007.


Kassie made this shirt for Ashton in her Graphic Arts class. She also made one for herself and Kenzie.
Santa adds to Bryson's nutcracker collection.

This wooden school bus came from Sister Reid. Kaden played with this more than any other toy Christmas day.
Santa adds to Brady's camping/Scouting supplies.

Kassie made this wooden pencil holder for Dale in her Wood Shop class at school.
Brady made this half moon with Dale's help.
Kenzie kept telling me not to buy a 2008 calendar. Once Christmas morning came, I knew why!

Christmas breakfast

A few years ago we started the tradition of having donuts for Christmas breakfast. The very best donut breakfast would be to have Maple Donuts on the table. This isn't always possible since the closest Maple Donut shop is in York and we rarely get there. This year I decided I would make them at home. I got a quick, simple, easy, cheap and delicious recipe from Sister Reid. They were a big hit!
YUMMY!!!

Christmas Eve eve

The Eyler tradition has always been to go to Aunt Bonnie's on Christmas Eve. This year we met on the day before, what I call Christmas Eve eve. Logen went right over to Kassie and let her take off his coat!
Here's Aunt Bonnie/Grandma holding her nephew on one knee and her grandson on the other. Jennifer and I have always tried to photograph the boys together to watch them grow through pictures. Logen is one month older than Kaden.
Kaden checks out the tree!

Ahhh, the food! It wouldn't be a party at Aunt Bonnie's without the usual Christmas goodies -- little smokies, fudge, cookies, meat, cheese, pretzels, chips and punch. This year Aunt Bonnie made something special -- pretzel logs dipped in white chocolate and rolled in sprinkles. Kaden enjoyed the white chocolate coating and sprinkles, put never did eat the pretzel!

Before Jennifer left with her boys, Logen came over and gave Kaden a great big hug! It was so big it knocked them both over and they fell to the floor!

Avery and Bryson's school play

This past week Avery and Bryson's class put on a short play. Their class wrote the play themselves with the help of an artist/actor that came to the school to help. The play told the story of how the zebra got it's stripes, how the giraffe got it's long neck and how the monkey got his long arms. Avery and Bryson wait in the stands for their class to take their turn on stage.

Kaden decided to join Avery and Bryson's class!
The play started with a song and dance routine.

Bryson was the voice of zebra number one. Notice the stripes on Bryson's sleeves -- very simple costumes!

Avery was the voice of the tree! It was hard getting a picture of him as he hid behind his prop!
The children all did a great job! Kaden and I enjoyed our time at Rolling Acres Elementary School with Avery and Bryson!