christmas shenanigans galore

visitors to our nativity continue...monsty and a snowman came to worship the newborn King!

christmas sock exchange with my crazy fun bible study girls!

ready for the parade to start!

skating with friends!

meet jack, the gingerbread man.  he plays wrestleball. he's the best player on his team.  he averages 50 points a game.  as the best player, he's been chosen to represent the team in their christmas jerseys during this year's holiday ad campaign.

no big deal...just working on a little research project.

love these two a bunch!!!

suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, "glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will toward men."

we had a date night and saw "newsies" at the orpheum and it was sooo good!

this girl rocked her zambia presentation! and, we may want to take a trip there now!!!

the girls in my ss class had our annual favorite things/wrapping christmas party!

some of the cousins saw the singing christmas tree!

christmas break, baby!!!

she does all her own wrapping.

ba ba ba buh ba ba buh ba buh...the force has awakened!!!

it's beginning to look a lot like christmas

home for christmas program

grace and a few other kids at church sang a couple of songs in the choir christmas program.

they did such a great job!

grace smiled so much!  it was totally the best part of the entire program!!!

carter man was so proud of his big sister!

and, grace's sweet friend sang her solo so well!!!

a visit with santa

so, we are past the stage of screaming and crying or standing a mile away when we visit santa.  now, they come with a plan and a mental list of things to ask for.  they said their hellos and how ya beens and smiled for a photo then they got down to business.  grace asked for the american girl doll, grace.  then, santa asked what else she wanted.  what???  santa, no!!!!!!  so, she thought an american girl doll kitchen would be nice to have as well.  boy, santa, we might need to talk about this!  carter took his turn and asked for star wars legos and a star wars blanket.  then, they said their see ya laters and merry christmases and that was the end.

hello there, jingle

we, once again, welcomed jingle back with our annual north pole breakfast.

it's so fun and something i hope the kids will remember forever.

anytime we get to eat powdered donuts and not hide in the closet to do so is a pretty great day!!!

candy and sweet notes are kind of perfect!