Day 7!

Tonight was the first night of the musical Annie at the Creative Drama Children's Theater. I'll post more about it later, but here are just a few pictures from tonight. . . It was hard to get good pictures because there were so many kids on the stage!

Day 6!

( I wrote this post yesterday, but apparently, I forgot to post it!! Oh well!!!) A busy day!! My chorus sang at the hospital today so that’s what I have pictures of! Also, here’s a photo of the kids from the other day at the grocery store. As we were leaving, we had to stop and put money in the red bucket. The lady was so nice she let the kids stand and ring the bells for a little while!

Day 5!

This Sunday was the first Sunday of Advent so that meant it was time to wear our Christmas clothes to church!

That evening was the Hanging of the Greens service at Union. After the service, we had a soup and sandwich dinner where Santa and Mrs. Claus always appear. We teased Charlie that Santa might not appear this year but he was having none of that. I think if Santa hadn't shown up, he would have been heart broken!! Mrs. Claus came first and read "Twas the Night Before Christmas" to the kids.

Then it was time for Santa to come and so everyone got to tell Santa what they wanted for Christmas.

Day 4!

We went by the mall the other day to run some errands. They had a special area set up where you could write your letter to Santa and mail it to him. The kids had a good time writing and were very excited to get to mail it too!

Day 3!

          Lucy and I went Black Friday shopping - she wanted to have the experience of getting up early to go to a sale. So we got out at 6:00 AM and went to a few stores. One of the stores we went to was Carters. I had gotten the kids some Christmas PJs, but not Santa pjs like I had done in years past. Well, Lucy was not having it - apparently, in order for it to be Christmas we have to have those pajamas!! So of course, since everything was on sale, we picked up some for everyone. After we found some pajamas and a few shirts for Lucy and the boys, we got in line. It was a longer than normal line, maybe 6 people in front of us, but to Lucy this was just ridiculous! She did not like having to wait in line and after that shopping experience she was ready to be done! I guess she will enjoy online shopping the way that I do! ;) So after our purchase, we got breakfast for everyone and headed home.

         That evening, everyone wanted to wear their Santa jammies so of course, it was picture time!

Oh my goodness, can they be any cuter!??

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Day 2!

So, for today, instead of Christmas photos, I thought I'd catch up on everything that happened in November! It's not that we didn't do things, but we just stayed busy and I didn't get on the computer to blog! So here's last month in a nutshell. . . .

Enjoying the fall weather

We had a packing party at church and packed 28 shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child!

Fire safety week in pre-k!

It was finally cold enough to wear sweaters!!

The boys went on their first field trip! They went to the pumpkin patch. (This picture is Charlie's class . . . .his teacher sent it to me. . . I don't have one from Alex.)

Silly boys at dinner one night

Lucy got her first report card for the year and of course - All A's! We let her choose dinner one night to celebrate and she decided that she wanted sushi!

"Fry"day shirts!!!

Charlie's class had a Thanksgiving lunch, which meant that I spent the whole night before creating a dairy-free Thanksgiving dinner for one! I think he ate a bite of everything, but ate all his deli turkey slice and all of his pumpkin pie filling. (Not the crust though!)

This was the only picture I took on Thanksgiving Day. . . . go figure. . . but these were just as delicious as they look!!

The next day we had dinner at Great-Daddy's house - here is GreatDaddy with all his great-grandchildren.

We were cleaning up before Gramma and Pappy came to our house to eat. . . the boys were so excited to help vaccum!!

We did manage to get a picture of all the Flacks while they were at our house for Thanksgiving.

Poor old Alex - I don't have many pictures of him from school, but I did get this one the other day. Upper school students came around and read to the preschool classes and this picture ended up on the Facebook page. 

So that's November!!! Back to December tomorrow!!

Day 1!

It's that time of year again!! Here's to 24 days of Christmas photos!!

We'll start with our trip to see Santa! We went to the mall the day before Thanksgiving, as is our tradition. The kids really enjoyed the way the line was set up this year - there were little games to play as you waited, so that it didn't seem to take as long. I always enjoy that the mall has the same Santa every year! :)