Gametime

Believe.

Team!

Made it to the game! First day of vacation is going well so far. These nice cheerleaders were signing autographs and posing for pictures before the game. Nice Santa costumes they were wearing too! Go Tebow. Believe.

Gameday

Grandpa Roth is all set for the big game in Denver today. Could get crazy with Big Andrew, Mark, Bob and Campingdad in the season tickets. Go Tebow!

Painting

We are also painting ornaments tonight too! What a fun night. The pizza was great, cookies turned out well and very colorful, and a couple of the kids are out back playing fetch with the lab and the bulldog. Too bad we all have work and school tomorrow.

Chocolate!

Noah is even helping out by making the chocolate covered peanut butter balls.

Cookies!

We are really getting in the Christmas spirit now! Thanks to Devin and Ashley for inviting us over tonight for dinner, movies and cookie decorating! Ho Ho Ho!

Dr. Smith

In honor of Big D finishing his first semester of his doctorate program, here he is in his office on campus. Had the chance to visit him on campus last week and eat lunch with him in the University Center. It was just like old times back in the spring of 1996. Congrats on surviving the first semester Andrew. Beer will be my treat on Wednesday.

NaNoWrMo

Besides completing an exceptional science fair project, Noah also took on the challenge of National Novel Writing Month in November. His English teacher asked each student to set a word per day goal every day in November. Noah turned in 900, and came pretty close. His novel ended up at 27,036 words and almost 56 pages. Amazing. One of the sixth grade teachers read some of his work today in class and several of the kids liked it so much they wrote Noah fan mail. He arrived home today in high spirits, carrying 4 letters from his peers praising his writing. So proud of you, son.

Science Fair

Noah completed and presented his science fair project today at Frontier. He did a great job. I was asked to be a judge for the 8th grade projects, and Noah's was as good or better then those projects. He also specifically choose the orange and blue colors, not because of Tim Tebow, but because studies have show the high contrast of colors make the presentation of material pleasant to look at. Smart kid.

Cookies!!

It is the annual cookie making/Charlie Brown Christmas watching party tonight at the Roth household. Cookies are great! Ryan is quite grumpy that ABC edited the show and cut out several important scenes. Now the group is watching Prep and Landing while more cookies are coming out of the oven.

Movie Night!

Several times a year, Frontier hosts a Friday night movie night to help raise funds for continued playground improvement. The kids bring pillows, blankets, chairs and wear their pj's. Tonights movie was Elf.  It looks like this guys is all set. Hope  he left some sugar at the snack bar for the other children.

Letter

This girl is also getting in the Christmas spirit by writing a letter to Santa. It will be post marked and sent to the North Pole this weekend. I hope she asked for something amazing. Like an iPad for her dad.

Spirit

The six inches of snow today helped this guy get in the Christmas spirit. We are at the Festival of Trees, getting ready to watch Nathanaels concert.

Games

After dinner was cleaned up, and dessert was yet to be served, the group gathered around the table for several lively rounds of Apples and Apples. It got a bit crazy. But what a wonderful way to wrap up Thanksgiving.

Sun!

Just a few more posts from Thanksgiving week, before we move on to Christmas. One of the highlights from the trip to Denver was the opportunity to look through the telescope on the roof of the museum. We were able to see the sun in an amazing way. We viewed sun spots and solar flares as they were happening. It was pretty neat, and all eight of us were able to take a look. Here are grandpa and Little D.