The Best Christmas Pageant Ever...Christmas fun begins!

Ok, I'm behind in posting Christmas things that have been going on. But hopefully over the next few days I'll actually get posted the posts that have been rolling around in my head of things that we've done already this Christmas season. Most pictures will be from my camera phone because I left my camera batter charger in Bryan at Thanksgiving. But even low quality photos are better than no photos!

One of the first things we did this holiday season was take a field trip to the local children's theatre to watch a production of "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever". Jonathan and Jeremy's class in Classical Conversations read this book for the last week of their class before Christmas. (Believe me, all the other books they read this semester were MUCH harder than this one! Just an easy/fun read before Christmas, I guess!) Well, when I saw the theatre was putting this play on and even the day right after J&Js last class, I planned a field trip. Almost everyone from the class was able to make it. We had a great time. Jeffrey and Josiah hadn't read the book (and it's been years since I have) so they weren't sure what to expect, but I think they enjoyed it.

Here's Jeffrey with part of J&Js class. We were up in the balcony which is why the theatre looks so empty.

Because we had an extra ticket, we invited one of Josiah's friends who is the daughter of the lady who teaches band to the big boys. Josiah always enjoys hanging out with her. And it is always a fun and different adventure to have a girl tagging along! :-)

After the play, we went to eat at Spaghetti Warehouse. We've been wanting to go there for some time now and since the theatre was just a few minutes from there, it was the perfect opportunity.

And after lunch, we headed back toward the theatre which sits on the same property as Hemisfair park. And in the boys' mind, you CAN'T get this close to Hemisfair park and NOT play!! So, we rustled up all the change we could find for the parking meter and played for a few minutes before we had to head off to basketball. A game of Hide and Seek quickly broke out.

Everyone on "base".