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Elise’s preschool did a performance of the Little Engine That Could for her school’s holiday this show. She comes in at 2:45 in the title role!

Elise is also taking a Chinese class at her preschool. Here is her class singing some of the songs they have learned.

Elise’s school had a graduation for all of the kids on Friday. I guess she is all grown up now. Nonetheless, we are quite proud of our graduate.

Here is a short video I cobbled together in iMovie using some video and photos I shot during our Mammoth trip.

The girls and I drove down to Mammoth to meet up with my family for a week of skiing. We got there the first sunny day after a solid week of snowing. We managed to have some great weather and snow conditions during the whole week.

Elise enrolled in Ski School with her friends Chloe and Kayla. She was a little hesitant at first but managed to have a really great time. At the end of the day she said that she wanted to stop going to preschool and start going to ski school fulltime.

I hope everyone is having a great holiday season. Here is a video of Elise’s Christmas show that the kids performed at her school. This was her big theater debut and she got the starring role as Mary. She did an amazing job and we are very proud of her.

We made our annual journey to the East Bay for Thanksgiving with the JPs again this year. The JPs went overboard again with providing an amazing meal. We had a huge turkey AND a grilled beef tenderloin with all of the trimmings.

We went to Thomas Diego’s birthday last week at the zoo. A lot of fun was had by all: animal masks, birthday cake, ring-a-round the rosie, and train rides.