Chinese Language School Party

Athena helps out her teacher Alexandra Cali, by making silk ribbons into flowers before the Dance Performance.
After many-a-months, they are ready to perform.

Next performance was the Tai Chi class of instructor Ron Li.
Last came the Pin Yin 5 class performing the 3 Little Pigs.
Scott & Athena thought it was the worst Chinese Mandarin they have ever heard.

(They just can not understand;

that just because you look Chinese ~ doesn't mean you know how to speak Mandarin).

Everybody (except me~daddy) ate lots of Chinese food and frosted cookies. It was a long day... but Hannah got a 90% on her final in her Pin Yin 2 class; and the girls loved showing off their dance recital finale' as well, so it was worth it!

Jacob's 2009 Winter Concert

It only took 17 songs by the Orchestra and Band before we got to the Choir program.

(too bad I didn't bring my pillow, or earplugs)

The choir only did 5 songs (whew). Jacob was doing an experiment on this girl to see if you could see the light on the other side of her ear...(LOL)
After getting home I found this picture that the Ghost of Christmas Past must of taken when I wasn't looking... Creepy!

A November to Remember

One Krazy Kid...Two Goofy Guys... Two Giggly Girls...The Fantastic Four...

Our happy family, in our first Christmas Picture together. They make it look easy...

but it took many shots to get everybody with a good/non-closed eyes smile, while looking at the camera (funny~thing too, we went with pose #1 :o).

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We made a Detour to the North... The North Pole that is, where everyone loves Mr. Claus.

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After returning home...The kids put up their first tree...~

And the Christmas Elves helped with the outdoor display as well.

(Thank goodness for the warm sunshine in CO in late November)

Happy Turkey Day.

The kiddie table. Hannah with a mouth full, she could not wait to dive into the slab of Turkey!

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Scott and Athena sat at the Adult table.

Athena too, she was stuffing the "Stuffing" in,... big time.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Enjoy your family and food and Thankfulness.

This Land Is Your Land...

...This Land Is My Land.Today was the Veteran's Day-4th and 5th Grade Music Performance.
For the Hunsucker's we are proud of our Veterans; Great Grandfather Gaston "ScrapIron" Hunsucker. He fought in the "Battle of the Bulge" in WWII. Next to him is Grandfather Jack "MotionSickness" Hunsucker, he was in the Navy in the 60's. (Photo, 1949?)

Pre-Assembly, & silly as always...

Scott and one of his classmates eager to get started.
Athena ready to go!

And Jacob too...

After a few songs though, Scott came to realize; "I not know the words and this is not too fun".
Athena's best~friend Naomi. :o) She has been very helpful and genuinely befriending Athena in school.
Two of Jacob's (girl) friends in school. ;o)

Athena's Day Off

First stop on her "Day Off", a trip to the Immigration office. Even though Athena was a U.S. Citizen when she stepped off the plane in San Fransisco, she had to retake the Oath, and resign her affirmation, to have them "hand over" her US Citizenship Document.

The next stop was a visit to CCAI, the starting place for her paperwork;

(in someways her birthplace) to come to her family.
Thanks to a letter from Lily, we made it to China in time to adopt Athena.
The waiting child department was happy to see Athena, a lot of hard work came from these people, in just a short period of time.

Athena had a "Great Day Off"!

A Monster Weekend!

For kids that acted like they had never seen real snow before... you would think they were Eskimos!

Building a snowman was like child's play. Even Jacob has never made a snowman before.
Every detail was mastered by Scott and Athena.
Athena thought it would be OK to break off a few branches from "Mommy's Japanese Plum Tree" to make the arms... I caught her just as she was hanging on a limb.

You would think she is SOOOO, Innocent! :)

Two proud new parents... of a Snowman.

The Monster Squad.