December 21, 2009

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

We've had a busy December, which is nothing out of the ordinary since December is always a busy month! Josh completed his third semester and we are all looking forward to having a few weeks off now!

Cutest Santa around :) He was in mid-snatching-off of the hat when I caught this picture...

Kate's pink Christmas tree, courtesy of Mimi :) She LOVES it and has had the most fun arranging and rearranging all her ornaments.

Kate's school put on a Christmas program and she got to be Mary! In the picture below she's in the blue on the left. But the real reason I picked this picture to post on here is because the kid on the far right makes me laugh. Not sure what's going on with him, but he's either really excited about singing, or mad about something :)

Kate's class has memorized Psalm 100 and recited it at the end of the Christmas program. From l. to r. her class is Benjamin (Joseph), Kate (Mary), Caden (donkey) and Kayla (star). Such a sweet group of kids!

Stephanie's mom was in town last week and had bought Anna Kate and Abby tickets to Disney on Ice. Abby was sick and couldn't go, so Anna Kate invited Kate to come with them. Kate had the best time!! Here's a fun shot Stephanie got mid-show of the girls with her mom...

And as soon as she set foot in the door from the show, the princess gear was out and on :)

Our sweet new friends Paul and Miranda invited us to come over for dinner one night with our friends the Henkels. After dinner, all the kids made gingerbread houses! So fun! Here they are, hard at work. Hudson was helping out too...by eating candy...maybe not helping exactly, but participating :)

Intent on finding JUST the right place to put that candy cane

So proud of their work!!

Our 'new' Christmas tree. We got rid of our old tree because it was way too big for our house, and found this one on Craig's List! It's perfect...just what we needed for the space we have.

We are leaving to go down to Georgia a few days before Christmas and wanted to do our family Christmas before we left Wake Forest. Usually we give them new Christmas pajamas to wear Christmas morning, but changed it up a little and gave them to them a few days early to wear in the afternoon while we did our Christmas here.

Time for presents!!

Now Hudson and Carter both have ride-on fire trucks!

Josh giving a tutorial on how to work Carter's new airplane. He drew a crowd :)

Kate got her first Prince doll...to go with her new Snow White! She was happy, if you can't tell...And the funniest thing about it is Carter is convinced she got a Superman doll! He keeps asking her where her princess's Superman is.

Hudson on his tricycle from Mimi. He's making his car noise...vroom, vroom...
Merry Christmas!!

1 comment:

Stephanie said...

what a super fun christmas post! your kids are SO cute!!! love the christmas pj shot, and that little boy in the school musical picture made me laugh out loud, so hard! that reminds me of something that should e on you-tube or something! have fun in GA!