Chloe's photo on Lara's Christmas card

Lara Parent (the one who took the great family photos) called the other day asking to use a photo of Chloe on her Christmas card for her clients. We assumed it would be included in a collage with other photos she's taken this year. Today, we found the following posted to her photo blog:

Merry Christmas!

Giving credit where credit is due

Lara Parent, the reading teacher at Martha and Henri's school, took the wonderful family photos that were on our Christmas card and in the header above. She also snapped this photo of Martha this morning as she was "on assignment" at school taking photos of new staff. Check out her portfolio sometime.

Crossroad Christmas Program

Lucia morning

A semi-reluctant Lucia serves cardamom bread

while her faithful star boy lights the way

and her little Lucia-in-training decides that the crown is not for her.

East K-8 Christmas Program

Henri impersonating a reindeer (I think?)...

...and Martha "signing" Silent Night.

family photo

There are a bunch of photos that I'd like to post from the past month, but I don't seem to find the time.  So I'll simply post a nice family shot taken at a Christmas tree farm last weekend.  We don't seem to get many family shots (it's hard to keep all three kids in the same spot for more than a few seconds).

Snowy day

Henri and Christa made good use of a snowy afternoon to build a snowman in the front yard.