We wish you a Merry Christmas

Rachel's preschool class did some caroling at the New Haven Elementary school this week. It was a good thing there were two exact performances because Rachel would not sing the first time. When she saw that I had gum, she requested some. I, like all good moms, said "you can have some gum as soon as you sing!". Problem solved. I told her teacher, "I guess I am getting good at this bribery thing!"

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Well we are trying our best at the Nugent home, to get ready for the celebration of our wonderful Savior's birth. This year, December has had it's share of challenges and even though I am not working outside the home, I am feeling the time crunch more this year than ever.

Morgan had her winter recital this past Saturday. She did great. I was so proud of her. She played two French traditional tunes as duets with her buddy Kyle Knepper. They worked hard on these pieces and they played better than any other time they had practiced. Playing duets can be tricky, especially when you both have to get your timing and notes right. They did fabulous!


Morgan played at a recital hall at my alma matter-Oakland U.


These are the piano players; Kyle Knepper, Julia Knepper, Jenna Knepper and Morgan.

Morgan had just about had it with being serious. She is turning into quite a goof ball at times.

Hey Mrs. Carol, don't you want us to play piano for you also? This would be Tornado Knepper and Storm Nugent



We had our family Christmas cookie making night.




The newest addition to our family in these pictures is Jenni. She is living with us for a while. She is a youth ministry intern at the church. The girls LOVEEEEE Jenni. Not sure what is going to happen when she moves out.


We had been a little behind with our Advent wreath. But we were able to spend some time reflecting on how we are to prepare ourselves for the celebration of Jesus.

Hope you are getting some time to enjoy this December!

A Little bit of Randomness...

It has been a few weeks since I have updated the blog and thought today I might just update with a few random things occurring around here. We always have a really busy end of fall season with 4 out of 5 birthdays occurring within 3 weeks of each other. Last night we went and celebrated Mike's birthday. I was able to get a picture of some really great daddy's with their girls. I am partial to the one on the right!


A couple of weeks ago, when we had one of our first big frosts on the ground in the morning, Rachel woke up very excited. She wanted to go outside before the big girls went to school. She ran outside with her new umbrella, not sure why, and looked at the ground and said, "Hey mom, God put frosting on the grass".

I thought to myself, did she really say frosting? And then she reaches down and tried to taste it. I was cracking up!