Isaac's Presentation Night AND Christmas Lights!

Hello All,
well the last few weeks have been really busy. Isaac has now officially finished the reception year at school and next year he will be in year 1. For those who are confused we have preschool or kindy when they are 4 and then reception or pre-primary when they are 5 and when they turn 6 they are in year 1. Isaac was in reception this year. He attends Tydale Christian School and I am very pleased with this school. They even had a Presentation Evening where the kids "graduated" from reception and were presented with a certificate. It was SO cute. It was held in a theater type room. Sorry the photos are so small and even blurry as we were up on the balcony and it was hard to get great shots. Below is a picture of what the whole stage looked like. The words say, "Christmas in Australia" because not only did the kids get awards but they had some special songs and stuff planned for the adults. Here is the school blanner. It says, "Tyndale: God's Truth Provails"

Here is the reception co-ordinator (or something) and the Principle of the School getting ready to give the awards. The Junior School Principle is at the podium.

One of Isaac's friends receiving his certificate.

Unfortunately this picture of Isaac is rather blurred but this is him receiving his certificate! Yay!!! The kids were so brave going out in front of the whole crowd because the theater was packed full of parents and grandparents! It must have been quite scary! As they walked out of the curtain, the kids already had their proper hand out that they had to shake with the Principle and us adults all had a little laugh. They were obviously trying to remember what hand to shake with and what to take the certificate with! We are SO proud of Isaac. I had tears in my eyes and felt so emotional! Haha! My baby is growing up into such a beautifully, handsome and kind boy! He is also a rascal!

This is how far away from the stage.....where we sat! However, the camera makes it looks so small and blurry. We were able to see well

The kids singing the songs they had prepared. This Presentation Night was for the Receptions to year 1's only. There were 3 reception classes and 3 year 1 classes and each class had prepared something to perform. They also sang all together, in costume, on the stage! They were all Australian Christmas Songs!

See the lady....well the teacher at the front facing them? She is wearing a red hat? Well Isaac is in the green facing her, in front of her with the green Christmas hat and the green tinsle around his neck. He is on the left of the little girl in the red who is standing directly in front of the teacher. Isaac was real cute while singing. I think he had a bit of stage fright at times!

Isaac and his groupee after the presentations and performance......cute

Good friends of Isaac who are in his class...

Isaac's best friend at school....showing their certificates! So cute!!!

Alan, I and Isaac. We are very proud of Isaac!

Anyway, those are photos or his presentation night. On to more photos! We have been very Christmasy at our house. We have our tree up and we have lights on our house which look great!

Off the topic, I entered in this photo because Isaac insisted that his horse eat with us one night and it was cute. It had to wear Isaac's Christmas hat and had fake food and so on. A night at the dinner table.....check out Alan's face......hehe......sorry this photo didn't have much to do with the Christmas tree and lights.

About 2 weeks after Isaac's birthday on the 8th, we put up the tree. It looks real pretty. This is it with the lights on in the room. Such a pretty tree with our Christmas train underneath!

This is it with the lights off....in the room that is. I think it looks gorgeous!

We always struggle to take good pictures of our light display on our house and in our garden. We have a little candy cain display in our garden. We call it the candy cain forest.....hehe...we have lights on our roof and lights in our window and in our bushes at the top of the house! I wish the camera was better or may be it is me......but in real life, our house looks real great! We have a town around here that lights up almost every house and it is beautiful. Alan and I like to joke that our house is a mini "lobethal"....hehe.....anyone living near us, you are welcome to drive by and check out our house!

These do not do it justice!

The roof lights and blue candy cains, window lights and our wooden poles .......

Is this a better shot?

The roof lights are all different colours but you can't see that here :-(

A far away shot.....still can't see our coloured lights except for our blue candy cains....oh well!

Anyway, Christmas is not far away. I have almost finished our Christmas shopping. All the main family are practically done. It is now just some extended family! Busy, busy, busy!

I had IVIG infusion on Friday which went really well. I am feeling a little wiped out today but ok. Mainly I have what I call "infusion flush" where my cheeks brighten up real red and hot. It has also happened to the top of my shoulders this time. Last night I had weird legs from infusion and today I just feel tired. Hopefully it won't get worse than that. Tomorrow I will know!

Ok, Alan and I are going to relax for the evening!

Love you all,

Charisse