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Happy New Year to all our friends and family!
As I snuggle up to the laptop following
all of our holiday festivities, I realize how very long it has been since I sat
down to complete a post.
In reflection, I realize the era of detailed posts may
behind us for the time being. With
this realization, I will at least plan to keep photos shared on a more regular
basis!
Here is a synopsis of what you will enjoy in the September
through December galleries (posted below):
We celebrated Mommy’s 40th birthday with dinner
out and biking at Clydes’ Willow Creek restaurant. And we celebrated Mommy and Daddy’s birthdays by sharing
special desserts at home!
We started going to our new school at Holy Comforter! We love playing with our friends in our
class, and are learning about the letters of the alphabet, sharing, baking, making
crafts, science, chapel, show and share, and lots of fun songs.
We have also been enjoying getting to play with our friends
Emmie, Jordan, and Alex (Kristy’s children). We love some of the fun special activities we do together,
like trips to play together; choosing, painting, and carving pumpkins; science
experiments and art projects at home; creating our own stories, and going to a
play.
We did lots of playing this fall at home and outside! When it’s nice outside, we love hike,
ride our bikes, swim, play at the park, and play in the yard. As the weather got colder, we did lots
more helping Mommy in the kitchen and crafts at home, as well as trying out
some “indoor camping” fun with Daddy.
We also like taking trips to the library, the store, and to Mommy’s
school.
We enjoyed lots of special outings this fall to concerts,
Cox Farms Fall Festival, the Fire Station Open House, the Fall For Fairfax
festival, and leaf and light peeping at Meadowlark Gardens.
Halloween was lots of fun this year! We had a great time helping decorate
the house with pumpkins and spiders, and dressing up and going out for our
first Trick-Or-Treat! We had so
much fun dressing up as Rock Stars, with our blow-up guitars. We even got to wear them for the
multiples Halloween Party, and for our school’s costume parade!
We celebrated giving thanks the entire month of November by
remembering all of our friends and family members, using the “Giving Thanks”
calendar we helped Mommy make. And
we took an extra special family trip to Sesame Place in Pennsylvania for
Thanksgiving weekend. We were
amazed to see our Sesame Street friends in shows, in a parade, and on the
street. We thought it was fabulous
to visit Elmo in Elmo’s World – we got to play his piano and say Hi to
Dorothy! And we even got to meet
and take pictures with some of our favorite characters!
This Christmas was also extra special! We enjoyed helping decorate our home
with lights, nativity, Christmas Trees, and watching new greeting cards from
family and friends go up each day.
Each morning, we loved seeing where “Advent” the elf had moved to,
talking about the daily ornament from our church for our Advent tree, and
advancing the date on our Advent calendar. We enjoyed seeing Santa on his fire truck at the Church
Street Holiday Stroll, and having dinner with Santa at Meadowlark Gardens,
where we also got to explore the lights with our friends Emmie, Jordan, and
Alex. We went with Emmie to
a gingerbread house decorating party which was SO much fun! And we had a great time helping Mommy
make ornaments for our tree, stockings and gingerbread for our teachers,
cookies for exchange, “Snow Dough”, and lots of other fun crafts at home. We had some extra fun time together at
home during our snow and ice days – we sledded, made snow angels, and a great
big snowman!
For Mommy’s school Winter Concert, we got to sit front and
center, and loved singing the songs around our home. And we were very proud to be in our very own first Christmas
concert at school, where we sang “One Little, Two Little, Three Little
Reindeer,” and “Have You Ever Seen A Reindeer?”, with our friends.
The best part of all, of course, was our visit with our
families in Ohio! We loved
celebrating Christmas, and seeing Grandma and Grandpa Sturgeon and Grandma and
Grandpa Keller, and playing with our cousins, Katie, Sam, Clara, and
Joseph! We love them so much and
look forward to seeing everyone again soon!
Back at home, we ended 2013 by spending our very first night
in our big kids beds on New Year’s Eve! We did great and are so proud and excited about a new big
kids year ahead of us!
Welcome 2014! Sending love and
hugs from the VA Kellers to all our family and friends!
Love,
Christopher and Katharine
