Christmas Prep

Once Daddy brought down the bins of Christmas decorations, the kids couldn't wait to get started getting into the spirit of the season. They put together their "kids' tree" where their presents to each other will go.

And since tomorrow is December 1, they made their chains to count off the next 25 days.

Wish Lists

We have the Christmas wish lists! Jillian filled hers out in no time flat, Bridget debated about her top items, while Tor struggled to think up his. Of course, these are subject to frequent change / addition at any time.

Beach and Huskies

Got to the beach yesterday and mostly hung out, played games and ate Thanksgiving leftovers. Today, we slept in. Once we got going, though, we were busy going to the beach, where the kids found lots of foam ...

and found some nice dunes to jump ...

ending with some ice cream at Adelaides.

Our afternoon involved biking to the park ...

to play a football game then browsing through Jack's. In the evening, we watched the Huskies win a thrilling come-from-behind win against Utah (Tor could barely contain his excitement!).

Thanksgiving at the Uhlenkott's

We had this year's Thanksgiving dinner at Aunt Robin and Uncle Dan's house, with cousin Tierney and Grannie and Papa Woodruff. There was lots of traditional foods, followed with pies in the evening.

Turkey Cookies

The kids spent Thanksgiving morning decorating the annual turkey cookies.

Back to Remote

Unfortunately, the virus numbers got to the point that the Longview schools are going back to distance learning ... sad news for Bridget and Tor who enjoyed getting out and away from the computer, but nothing new for Jillian who has been in remote the whole time.

Here's Bridget working hard on proper finger placement for her 1-minute typing test -- she scored 14 wpm!

Jillian seems to finish by noon every day. Here she is in Orchestra class.

Torion had show-and-tell during his morning Zoom meeting -- he showed off his Jack Sparrow standee.

Projects

Jillian, Bridget, and Tor came Friday after school to finally see some sun . It was fun to go to their tree forts again. Then Saturday morning the twins visited. Of course, they first paired up with two working on their rock fashion dolls and the other two downstairs playing cards.

After pairing up for awhile, they soon all got working on the rock people, except this time they didn't use tiny rocks-the were big! They are now waiting in a box for the twins to return to finish dressing them.

They did take a rock break to make some turkeys out of the leaves that Bridget collected last week so they could be dried. They turned out cute!

Later, Bridget got to have her second sewing lesson. Here she is cutting out the material to make a pencil holder.

She is learning on the sewing machine too and she did finish her project which turned out nicely.

While the girls are doing their dolls, Tor keeps busy petting Bella, his adopted dog. Bella comes down specifically to see Tor and Tor obliges by giving her a lot of attention. They all ended their stay by watching the Huskies whallop Arizona!