MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

hey everyone, i just thought i would catch you up with our family and send you some pictures. We enjoyed Halloween and the kids got tons of candy!! They had a few parties and really enjoyed the holiday. Our neighborhood was awesome for this!!! Here is what the kids are up to:

Natalie is doing very well in second grade. She just lost her third tooth and was very excited about that. Not surprisingly! The tooth fairy is a lot better to kids these days then she was when i was growing up. INFLATION HURTS!! :) She was the star student of the month for November. She has lots of friends and has started playing basketball. She is having fun with that. She spends most of the time laughing and giggling and seeing how everyone else is doing. It's funny how different from me she is.
Bryson is doing well. It took some time to adjust to Kindergarten. I think that we still are adjusting most days. He is a real home-body so it's hard for him to be gone all day. And the attitude that starts with kindergarten has definitely started. I take great comfort in the fact that Natalie is normal again. Bryson was the star student of the month in September. He also is playing basketball and gets really mad at himself when he doesn't do well. (now, that's my boy) He recently lost his two bottom teeth. Needless to say the tooth fairy is BROKE!!

Madison, well, Madison has not been the star student for any month, but she still is definitely a natural phenomenon around here. She makes her presence known every second of every day. My other two grew up so much at 4 years old. we are still waiting for that to happen with MTV. She has lied about getting sent to the office. It's not what you think though. She wasn't sent to the office and she told us she was. Feel free to offer any advice on this if you understand it because I am lost. She obviously still has not adjusted to the fact that she no longer owns the baby throne. She is quite funny though. Her new thing is to refer to all people as humans and has a daily adventure of who won the battle over her hand in marriage on the playground. All the boys love her because she can keep up and can do a lot of cool tricks and loves to play karate. She is looking forward to this spring with great anticipation because she will be playing soccer. Emily is a scary reminder of madison when she was a baby. Today at Toys r' us she threw a HUGE fit when I took her out of a power wheels car. I put her in the back of the cart to contain her, she immediately stopped crying stood up looked at me and hit me right in the stomach. She is sweet most of the time, but she definitely has started objecting to things she doesn't agree with. She is taking 4 or five steps at a time and is very silly. She has a sense of humor already. She likes to scream and then laugh at herself when everyone looks at her. Nathan and I are doing well. Mostly Nathan is just working hard trying to make this new company work so we can stay employed and i am adjusting to my new found job of taxi driver. With preschool, basketball and church we have something every day of the week!!! It is so hard to keep up with it all but we have somehow found a way. Mostly I'm just in disbelief of how big they all are. Hope this finds everyone. well. Merry Christmas to you all!!! love, the Vlazny family