Christmas morning

On Monday the girls got ready for Santa by making him some cookies:

 It took a while for Emily to fall asleep on Christmas Eve.  I remember being that way as a child : )

Santa came to visit!  Here is what he brought:

 Hannah the Elf left a couple of gifts as well:

 

 Checking out what Santa brought:

 and what Hannah left . . .

 Then they opened our gifts to them:

 

 

 

We had a very relaxing enjoyable Christmas together.  I was better organized this year by wrapping the presents to the girls and numbering them so I could remember which ones I wanted them to open, etc and kept a list this year so I wouldn't find stuff later in the closet that I forgot to wrap : )

Family Christmas Part 2

On Sunday we spent time with Joe's family to celebrate Christmas.  Abigail enjoyed hanging out with the dogs that were there.  At one point we had 4 dogs in the house : )

 Joe and his crazy brother:

 

After opening presents we all went to dinner together before our family headed back home to get ready for Santa!

Family Christmas Part 1

On Saturday we celebrated Christmas with my family in Montgomery.  It was a fun time opening gifts and eating dinner together:

 My mom made a t-shirt quilt for Robert:

 and made a quilt for Michelle:

 After dinner we went to a house that had tons of Christmas lights:

 We also gave Dad his birthday present from all of us.  Dad is a Christmas Eve baby.  We all gave him a scrapbook because he wants to put his family tree stuff together.

Polar Express Week

This was the girls last week of school before Christmas Break.  Everyone had their parties at school and of course a pajama day to watch Polar Express and drink hot chocolate : )  On Tuesday we went to ChikFila with some friends for their Polar Express night.   You got a ticket at the ticket booth and then listened to the Polar Express story in a decorated area of the restaurant:

 

Then we went outside to ride the Polar Express train, and then got a bell and hot chocolate:

 

 Wednesday was Abigail's last day so she had her PJ day:

 Emily had her Grinch party at school on Wednesday and came home with Cindy Lou Who hair:

 Thursday was Emily's last day of school and she had her PJ day:

 It was so nice not to jump out of the bed running this morning!

Christmas cookies

On Saturday the girls made and decorated Christmas cookies:

 

 

Abigail enjoyed licking the icing more than actually decorating the cookies:

 Emily's Christmas angel:

Lately Abigail has wanted to carry around A LOT of stuffed animals.  All last week she wanted these in the morning when she got up . . .

 We all had to help carry them all downstairs when we came down for breakfast:

 

 She wanted all of them in the car with her on the way to school and then wanted them in bed at night.  After several days of this I think she has finally decided that she doesn't need this many animals with her all the time . . . whew! 

Also last week the girls enjoyed cutting fabric.  Emily has a fabric scrap box that she likes to play with.  They pulled it all out and got chairs next to each other and had fun making a big ol' mess : )

 I also got some workbooks from Emily's teacher to cut out all the sheets and sort them for her.  Emily wanted to help and had fun with that this afternoon:

This week we are looking forward to school parties and pajama days and then school break!!!

Abigail's Christmas Program

Abigail had her Christmas program yesterday at her school.  The 2 year old class dressed up as angels.  Here they are coming in get on stage:

 Singing their songs:

 After the concert everyone sang Happy Birthday to Jesus and then we all ate some cake.  Abigail couldn't tear her eyes away from her cake long enough to get a picture : )

She had been practicing her songs at home all last week and it was the sweetest thing to watch.  She sang "Here I am to Worship" and "Away in a Manger" complete with hand motions.  So sweet to watch.  Yesterday during the concert she mainly waved at me and picked at her head band and looked around the room : )