Emily has written another special piece. Similar to her imaginative journal writing from last year, she let her creativity come through on this 5th grade poetry assignment. Yes, we are proud parents! The Five Senses of Autumn The Smell…… The crispy air that is stained with apple, That stings the nerves that smell it, A [...]
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School is in full swing with Emily and Joshua getting their fall 2009 pictures taken this past week. My how they grow up quickly. Matthew hasn’t had his picture taken yet, but I’ll add it when we get it. Yes, we did talk Joshua into wearing his favorite souvenir shirt from the Outer Banks. How [...]
My little girl is growing up. She will always be my little sunshine. It has been 2 or more years since Emily has talked about painting her room. Patiently she waited as other projects took priority. Now it was her turn. After 3 or 4 trips to Home Depot for color swatches, she picked out [...]
Emily had 10 friends over for a mock sleep over birthday party this past weekend. We were blessed with beautiful weather and great spirited kids. They enjoyed a giant twister game in the backyard, homemade pizza, a paper dress modeling show and obstacle course, and then Madagascar 2 movie. Yes, her little brothers got into [...]
Emily’s first piano recital
Posted in Emily on Mar 29th, 2009
A week ago Emily performed at her first piano recital. She did a great job and is excited to move on to more challenging songs. She is a natural and is making up songs as much as she is learning existing ones. We even got her a used guitar and she is picking it up [...]
It was a big day in the Krohn house with the first annual (for us) Father Daughter Dance. Emily got all dressed up for her date, complete with mom’s help on curling her hair for the big night out. Emily and I “double-dated” with her best friend, next door neighbor Sarah Kate and her dad. [...]
Emily continues to impress us with her writing. Her 4th grade class is ready a civil war book entitled “Captured, A Boy Trapped in the Civil War” by Mary Blair Immel. For an assignment she had to chose a photo in the book and write a one page journal entry as if she were the [...]
Winter Snow Storm – 12 Inches!
Posted in Children, Emily, Family Fun, Joshua on Jan 28th, 2009
A snow day today. School cancelled. Roads blocked and 12 inches of snow on the ground. Even dad got to stay at home and work from his office. The kids were dressed and ready to go outside – even before they had breakfast. Ahhh, if it were only that easy on school days. Our cul-de-sac [...]
Sights and Sounds of Christmas
Posted in Children, Emily, Family Fun, Joshua, Matthew on Dec 27th, 2008
On Christmas Day I took some video of the kids and their excitement building to a fun day of celebration. From stockings to karaoke to drums and hot wheels, catch some of the fun at our house this Christmas by watching this Christmas 2008 video.
Gingerbread House
Posted in Children, Emily, Family Fun, Joshua, Matthew on Dec 24th, 2008
We had a fun afternoon decorating a gingerbread house. All three kids took their hand at creating the “perfect” house, and sneaking a few candies here and there. More pics are available on our SmugMug site.