December 14th and 16th, 2011 Back to the Manger & Christmas Tea with GEMS

On Wednesday December 14, 2011, the girls were in their Christmas choir performance called Back to the Manger.  It was done during the Wednesday night service at church and was streamed on the internet live.  Really awesome performance.  The girls had solos in the song Ring the Bells.  They were really cute!  Mommy and a few other people dressed from the 70s and walked down the aisles when the kids went back in time to that decade and then we danced disco style for a few seconds at the front before heading to our seats.  The kids did an awesome job and Pauline & Bonnie did an excellent jobs teaching the kids.

 

 

The kids had their Christmas tea with GEMS.  It was really cute!  GEMS is like a Christian girl scouts (Girls Everywhere Meeting their Savior).  They had tea and snacks, heard stories about Jesus, sang some Christmas songs, made ornaments, and had a gift exchange.  They thought it was really fun.

NGC Christmas Party on December 9, 2011

We had our company Christmas party on Friday December 9th at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on A1A.  It was a lot of fun.

December 6th CCA's Christmas Program

We drove to Gainesville in the morning after dropping Kaylyn off at school.  Jason and Ashlyn had their yearly cardiologist visit at Shand's Pediatric Cardiology.  Ashlyn looked/sounded fine for everything.  Jason still has a slow leak in his heart where the artificial patch was placed when he was 4 years old.  The doctor did not seem worried about this because his blood pressure was still good and he could not hear the leak.  He also had the weird pneumonia last December with no symptoms, which the doctor worried about a little.  He wanted to get the x-ray and CT scan from that ER visit (Jason actually thought he was having a heart attack since the only symptoms were chest pains that radiated through to his back).  He says depending on how those look, he may or may not want an MRI.  He wants to see the size and shape of his heart to make sure everything is looking alright.  This doctor keeps up on all the studies and research and says that they should be looking at these things for his type of heart defects at around this age to make sure everything is still looking the way it should.  Didn't sound like there was anything to worry about and it all seemed pretty routine.

After the appointment, we drove back to Melbourne, dropped Ashlyn off at tutoring and picked Kaylyn up.  Drove home to make dinner and then Jason picked up Ashlyn.  We quickly ate, showered and got dress for the girls school Christmas Program that evening. 

2nd grade did two bell songs and then sang a song together with the 3rd grade.  Ashlyn was so funny when she delayed on the bell twice and giggled while covering her mouth after she rang it.  It was so cute because that was the first time I had ever seen Ashlyn singing a song where she actually knew all of the words to the song.  Amazing!  4th grade did a recorder song and then sang a song.  CCA's 4th-6th Grade Chorus sang a song, which Kaylyn is a part of.  They sang so beautiful!    They got to have milk & cookies after the program.  We didn't get home until after 9:00 pm that night with school the next morning.

Decorating the Christmas Tree on November 27th

It's that time of year again to get out the Christmas tree and decorate.  The girls love putting up the ornaments and stockings.  This year we have a fireplace where we could put the stockings on.  We have so many different ornaments and we add to them every year.

November 26th Post Thanksgiving Gathering at Mom's House

The Saturday after Thanksgiving my dad and mom (Wai-gong & Wai-po) had a family get together since some of the family was gone for Thanksgiving.  Grandpa & Grandma Drago came over from Winter Haven, Aunt Dawn, Mia, Mamaw, Aunt Arrietta, Riley, Tommy and his two daughters, Uncle Tim, Taylor, Aunt Jessica, and Shyanne all came over.  There was food, football, and fishing.  It was nice spending time with the family.

 Dad (Wai-gong) & Grandpa Drago

 This is me looking back at Jason after he was antagonizing me.  See the look of death ;-)

 Uncle Tim

 Taylor

 Mia and Aunt Jessica

 Lil Miss Shyanne

 Aunt Jessica sporting a Gator shirt (ironic since she's rooted for the Noles all these years).

Ashlyn looking like she's getting ready to get into something.

 Grandma Drago

 Aunt Arrietta & Mamaw

 Mom & Dad (Wai-po & Wai-gong)

 Wai-po acting all weird after I told her that she hardly ever smiles in pictures.

 Aunt Jessica's Softball team won the trophy this season and Dad's company sponsored their team.

 Aunt Arrietta & Tommy (her "friend")

 Mia, Taylor, & Riley fishing

 Uncle Tim & one of Tommy's daughters fishing.

 Daddy fishing.

 Kaylyn going out to fish.

 Coolest rainbow I've ever seen (touched one side of the water and went full half circle to the other side of the water and you could see where it touched the water).

 Daddy caught a Red Drum.

 Measure at 14.5" long...too short to keep.

Mommy fishing.