Below are six photos from Nolan’s hip hop class. They put on a small mini-performance for parents and relatives just before winter break. Unfortunately this year it was on a Tuesday so I had to go solo! Anyway, all of the kiddos worked their little butts off–that’s for sure. Oh and don’t forget to notice Nolan is wearing his favorite outfit: orange sweats, orange robot sweatshirt and orange t-shirt underneath. He is still such a “color” kiddo…some day this will be good blackmail material! :)

I’m hoping to have some you tube videos uploaded soon from video footage I took. Yes, I was the only parent there with camera in one hand and video camera in the other!! The hula-hooping segment is really good. Nolan has been working really hard and of course there was one girl who could hula while standing, go down to her knees and then stand back up—without dropping the hoop!

Click me for the hula hoop video footage!!

Click me for the robot twist-o-dance!

Click me for a little this or that! Oops—I cut that one short!
Click me for the ending!

Yes, you really are looking at a Darth Vader pancake (and mold)! For the annual Fortlage/Senecal Christmas breakfast we decided to use the force for our food.

And they were delicious of course!

A modern day definition of 4 food groups??

Opening presents together was fun too…although I think Nolan’s gifts were the most exciting:

A “first” hockey stick…

and a new “butt bank”! What, you don’t have one of those? You know…you put the coins in the butt crack and the little thing farts until it sounds like it just might explode!! (Yes, that is Kelly with his laughing head down in the background.) Thank you Auntie Robyn and Uncle Pete! Check back soon…there will (hopefully) be some youtube video footage of this too!

And it’s not a delicious breakfast without some silly photos…

and sledding at Nolan’s elementary school next door!

Check out this next series…it’s taken practice (primarily with a busy boy) to get good at timing action shots. I nabbed everyone except for myself—that may have to be a 2011 goal!

Yes, that is 6ft tall Uncle Pete in that pilates V pose!! I think that should be on their Christmas card next year…what do you think? I hope everyone had a great holiday season. As for the rest of you, well, it’s almost over! I hope you enjoy the pics! We’ll be back soon!

Check out our homemade bowling game. We’re testing it out before we take it to school.

We thought this soccer ball would be perfect, but I think it’s too small, soft and lightweight!

Oh yeah…bring on the lightning ball…strikes!

We did a turkey project at school and we all had to write what our favorite Thanksgiving food is. I said and wrote ice cream and cake…even though we don’t ever eat cake and ice cream at Thanksgiving!

Photos from our family fun day in school that Mama organized…

We had a yummy snack called gorp, which was whatever Mama decided to make it and we graphed how many we got of each piece. (In case you were wondering gorp is a type of trail mix where you can put anything you want in it.)

YES!! 7+ down from the farthest away carpet square…

dancing with my best friend, Rachel…

BINGO!!

Domino towers…

tic-tac-toe—hey wait a minute Garrett, if you are X’s you can’t be O’s!!

Making the two buckets balance…well, that just means they need to have the same amount of seeds!

Lucky to have family for family fun day…

Rare photo op…check check November family fun day done.

Special video of family fun day/Thanksgiving luncheon day musical presentation…starring Nolan, classmates and Mrs. Johnson! You can check it out below orHERE!!

and in case you didn’t get enough…there’s a second one HERE!!

Now that that’s over…it’s time to settle down with some yoga warriors!

What a great day. Let’s eat!! We hope you all had a great Thanksgving. Happy December!! See you next time!