sunday...

Sunday was a good day. We started out the morning at church. It was crazy!! Our church is tearing down part of it's building in order to build a bigger facility in that space. But what they are tearing down is where most of the children's Sunday School rooms were housed. It was a confusing morning trying to find out where Clara went (Alex knew where he was supposed to go) and where we would pick them up from choir. Lots of our usual pathways have been blocked off and rerouted so it was a little like being trapped in a maze for a while! :-)

After we picked them up from choir, Jeff dropped Alex and I off in the loop. Alex was trying the Dance for Musical Theater Master Class (sounds more imposing than it is... it's really just a "feeler" class to gauge the interest level to see if it's something they might want to add to the schedule). Alex LOVED it... he had so much fun! The fact that the class was nearly half boys added to that as well. One of the boys in the class is the older brother of one of the girls who was in Miracle with Alex. When I heard about the class, I sent the info on to the mom... thinking that her son might be interested. He loved the class as well! The mom and I had a nice time catching up too. We had talked about having a "photography playdate" sometime, so we both brought our cameras to play with. We didn't do too much playing since we didn't leave the building.... it was too cold out plus it was too much fun sneaking peeks at the boys throughout the class.

No real reason to post this photo, other than it's a shot I took yesterday as we played with manual settings on our cameras...

At the end of the class, the parents could come in to watch the kids perform the dance they had been working on. I contemplated taking photos, but I decided that I should probably just sit back and enjoy the show! I'm really hoping that this turns out to be a regular class on the schedule!

After dropping us off, Jeff and Clara went to get Alex's ski boot repaired and have lunch. They finished up just as Alex did and were able to swing by to get us.

Since they had skied all day on Saturday, our weekly family night got postponed until Sunday night. It was Clara's pick, and she decided that we should play Disney's Guilty Party (have I mentioned how much we enjoy that game?).

Here she is, all set up and ready to go... but since no one else appeared to be ready, she started reading ski brochures they had picked up at the ski store....
Since it was Clara's night to pick the activity, Alex got to pick the treat from our stash of theater size candies. He picked tropical Mike 'n Ikes....
We're halfway there....
.... I was still taking a couple of photos and Jeff was watching the tail end of the Michigan State game.

Finally, we started the game....
We finished the "story" last night, so now we're going to go back and start playing party mode.

Love, love, love that family night is back into our routine!!