Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Speer Family Christmas 2014

 Some special Pappy and Joy time
 Writing a book
 Our yummy feast - Beefalo rump roast, mashed potatoes, gravy, broccoli, rolls, fruit with dip and spinach dip.

 Joy was super excited to get Olaf pajamas from Lacy and Ana and Elsa dolls from Grandma and Pappy!

 Legos from Grandma and Tugs
 2014 Nutcrackers for Paul

 Grandma kisses for Tugs

 A new blankie for Pappy
 Conga dance!




 Gingerbread house making - what delicious fun!


 The finished product!

 Paul gave the family a great tutorial on using his new robot.
 Joy and Kaitlyn and the pigs.  Those darn pigs would not pose for a photo!  We had fun feeding them all the fruit and veggie scraps.

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Christmas Day at Grandma's



Slippers!
Socks and a new Elsa shirt.
We got Arianna Legos
Jenga
Legos
Finger paint


Doc McStuffins set from Nini
Ninja Turtles Scrabble from Grandma Cowan
And an Elsa game for Joy, and Frozen puzzles

Playing Jenga, Writing in her new Big Book of Boo Boos with her new Sofia amulet

Snap circuits

Arianna's new blocks


Playing with New Stuff

Paul and Shawn build his model walker and then he painted it with some paint leftover from some previous project.

Joy was still playing with the sand from the day before.  I thought she would really like it!

Friday, December 26, 2014

Christmas Morning

 Chocolate covered berries
 bath foam

 new tooth brushes: red light saber for Paul and Dora for Joy
 colored pencils
 water colors
 Star Wars walker model, barbie costume

 Angry Birds cavity rinse: Paul was surprisingly super excited about this.

 Nerf bullets
Spidy girl costume

 Magic School Bus and Fairy movies

 Yo yos

 Fairy hopscotch
 The present Paul was waiting for, programmable robots!


The robots ended up not working with our IPhones or IPads, but by today there was an update so parts of it worked with our phone.  Getting it going is still a work in progress, but Paul has been having a blast moving it around and pushing and hauling things.