Christmas Eve and Christmas!

Pajama Elf

This Pajama elf is ready for Christmas Eve! 

making paper snowflakes

The Nutcracker

Audrey and I had a girls day out. First we ate at Beasley's Chicken and Waffles and then we went to the Carolina Ballet's Nutcracker. It was a great day out, even if Audrey slept through most of the second half of the performance. We even got to see some of our friends who were only a few rows behind us. 

 

Life and Science Museum Santa Train

This year was our first ride on the life and Science Museum Santa Train. It was a lot of fun (hot chocolate, sock skating, making reindeer food and of course meeting Santa along the train ride. It was a good activity that even Kenzie got to be a part of. 

Job Update- Homecoming

I hosted my first event for my new job. Homecoming! It was a super big success, lots of work but with a big turnout it was worth it! Someone from my high school class was even there~ 

A Boy and a Girl

Ryan got his first phone call from a girl tonight. She called just to talk. He is seven, I think maybe I am emotionally unprepared for this. They talked for like 30 minutes, and Ryan was actually giggling at one point. Audrey was smiling while Ryan was talking and she asked me "do you know what I'm thinking?" I asked her what she was thinking and she said "a boy kissing a girl". Oh my, oh my. Wasn't he just a baby like yesterday?

Picking/ Decorating the Tree

Yesterday being the day after Thanksgiving was our day to start decorating for Christmas! We started out by picking out a tree- the kids were very excited about all the trees and Ryan got very emotionally invested in the tree. He even named - and got teary eyed when Don trimmed the bottom branches because he thought his dad was hurting his tree. After the tree was done we decorated the rest of the living room- even Don got in on the action of hanging up lights. It was a great day and one of my favorite family traditions. 

Happy Thanksgiving!

My brother hosted Thanksgiving for the first time this year. We destroyed his house but the food was great! Don, Meg, David and I even ran a 5k around the neighborhood. It was a great, but very long day, tomorrow starts the Christmas season, hopefully we get some rest tonight so we can go full on Christmas decorating tomorrow. 

Audrey's Classroom Thanksgiving

Audrey's class had their Thanksgiving celebration that involved a whole bunch of crafts! There were enough parent volunteers to have lots of things going on in the class. I was in charge of Salt Dough Ornaments- which of course was the messiest but the most fun. There was also glass candle holders and papers turkeys. 

C2 Stone Soup Thanksgiving Feast

Ryan's class had their annual Stone Soup feast for Thanksgiving. On Tuesday they chopped up all of their vegetables and Wednesday they ate it (along with  a lot of other parent donated food). It was a great time and they all got to read from their journals what they are most thankful for.