Craft Day with Santa

On December 5th, Boyertown Junior High West hosted Craft Day with Santa. There were lots of activities for the girls to do, plus free pictures with Santa.

Here they are working on the picture frames for their pictures with Santa.

Making candy canes out of pipe cleaners.

The ever-popular face and hand painting.


Jasmine got a cat...of course!

Alyssa also had a peace sign on her other cheek.

Party Time!!

On November 15th, we celebrated Jasmine & Alyssa's 8th birthday with a party at Silvia's Gymnastics. All their cousins came as well as some friends from school and church. Here are about 20 shots from the party in no particular order (thanks to Blogger).

Jasmine LOVES snow globes!!

The big trampoline was very popluar!

Alyssa LOVES Style Savvy! As do Joceline & Jasmine!

Aunt Linda with her "baby" and with the family "baby", Leah.

After the big trampoline, they jumped into the foam pit to throw blocks at each other, and then sing Happy Birthday to Jasmine & Alyssa.

Here's Zachy crossing the one balance beam...on his next time on it, he was up on his feet with no help!

Lots of fun with the uneven bars.

Jarod on the rope swing...another popular item!!

Eva had a great time and did everything the bigger kids did!

Leah on her first try at hopscotch!!

I don't think the rings were one of Zach's favorites, but he tried anyway and had a good time.

Jasmine on the uneven bars.

Alyssa on the tumble track (lots of fun!).

Joceline helped with Leah while Karla was helping Eva.

This shot was actually at the very beginning when they were warming up.

This particular piece of equipment is the tumble track...all the kids loved starting here!

As you can see, they were very active at this party and as far as I could tell, all the kids had a great time. Thanks to everyone who came out and thanks for the presents, too!

Show at Saddlebrook

Joceline was in her first horse show at Saddlebrook Stables today, where she takes her lessons. Here she and Alyssa are with Gran while we are waiting for the show to begin.

Not bad at all! 2 third place ribbons and 1 second place ribbon. There were 7 riders total in her classes, so we are all very proud of her! She only started lessons in September!

It's a little hard to see, but Joceline is the second from the left. Her horse's name is Dandy.

Here is Joceline on Dandy riding by us as we watch from the loft above. She absolutely LOVES riding!

Halloween Wedding

On Halloween the Kane family attended a fun wedding in Long Island, NY. From left to right is Phil (Jr), Phil (Sr), Michael, Lois, Linda and John. Looks like they all had a blast! I was too sick to go, but the girls went in costume as you'll see next.

Here's my main squeeze, John, and my 2 beauties, Joceline as Cleopatra and Alyssa as a pop star. My beautiful family!!

And here's a shot of just the girls. They had a great time dancing and just being themselves.

Bowling

Grandma & Grandaddy came up for a wedding in NY, so on Saturday morning, before the wedding, we got together for some bowling fun. Here's Tyler watching his shot.

Jasmine, Joceline & Zachy.

Eva Mae...what a cutie-pie in her pigtails and halloween duds!!

Tyler and Zach...contemplating the deeper things of life...pizza or???

Alyssa & Zach...what's up with Alyssa's smile??

The kids always have a great time together, and Grandaddy makes sure we all get together whenever he's in town! WE LOVE GRANDADDY & GRANDMA!!

Family Visit-More Pictures

Here are some pictures from my brother's most recent visit that my mom took.

This is Grant (15) and Grace (10).

From left to right it's Grace (10), Autumn (13 1/2), Alyssa (7), Maggie (4), Emma (7) and Joceline (11).

Emma and Alyssa, both 7.

The only men in my brother's house, Scott (40) and Grant (15).

As expected Grant is now significantly taller than Naomi (37).

I just noticed the date in the corner of these pictures...I'll have to have my mom update her camera!!

Family Visit

Here are some shots from my brother's most recent visit. His family is doing well, and the kids are all growing like weeds! It was so good to see them again.

Horseback Riding

Here is Joceline at her riding lessons. The horse's name is Ellie...it's one of Joceline's favorites to ride.

In this shot, Joceline is trotting on Ellie.

Gymnastics with Jasmine & Alyssa

Here are Alyssa (in pink) & Jasmine (with her hands up) waiting in line for their turn on the vault. They really love doing gymnastics!

After their turn on the vault, they run back the other way, and jump on the springboard and do a forward roll onto a large mat. Here is Jasmine.

And here is Alyssa getting ready to do her forward roll.

Alyssa waiting for her turn on the vault...

Most pictures come out pretty dark, but these ones are from right in front of where the parents and family sit. They are having a ton of fun!