12.18.2011

Breakfast with Santa.

(12\14\11)This morning we had breakfast with Santa at Abby's school. Then we went to the gym where each child could talk to Santa for any last minute additions to their list they had story time with their reading coach and made ornaments too.
 
 
 
 
 
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Pictures\Children's Choir.

(12\11\11)We went to Embassy Suites to have pictures made of the grandkids for GranJans Christmas present and Abby and I got a snap shot of us too.
 
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Then we were back at church for the children choir, Angels Aware, program.
 
 
 
 
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Hueytown Christmas Parade.

(12\10\11)Abby and Abby.
 
The Christmas Parade is something we look forward to every year.
 
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Abby's birthday at school\recital.

(12\8\11)I took cupcakes to school today to celebrate Abby's birthday coming up. She knew I was coming but was so happy to see me and the big Hello Kitty balloon.
 
 
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(12\8\11) We rushed home from school to get ready for their first violin recital! She did so good, she may have been nervous but you would never know it. She was ready and when they called her name she got on that stage in a hurry.
 
After the last performance they called everybody to get on stage to play, it was an upbeat fun song, and our girls grabbed their violins and got up there too. They had no idea what that song was, and I'm not sure what they played but they got up there and did something...priceless.
 
Carlee, Madison, Abby.
 
They all three did a great job and I think they made GranJan and Pops very proud.
 
GranJan and Pops.
 
Grammy and Grand Bob
 
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BJ

(12\7\11)When Abby woke up she found BJ having a tea party with all her bears, she loves tea parties, and she loves her bears, so she loved this.
 
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lamb fam

((12\4\11)Abby got a surprise from her sweet choir teachers tonight and then we waited for the Lamb Family Concert.
 
Abby was blown away at the violinist, she thought it was great and then even got her violin signed by all 4 of them!
 
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Carlee's Birthday.

(12\2\11)Happy Birthday Carlee!! 7 years old!!!!!
 
The kids loved iJump, we have never been there but they had a blast.
 
On the way out Abby said she wanted to climb the wall...
 
and she did!!! She always surprises me, and continues to make me a proud momma.
 
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GS Christmas Party.

(12\1\11)Tonight is our Girl Scouts Christmas Party! We started out making a couple of ornaments for the girls to take home.
 
Then we had dinner...pasta from Pizza Hut.
 
Here are our supplies for wrapping presents.
 
I let the girls do the best they could cutting wrapping, and taping their gifts up, with little help from us. They did a pretty good job and had a lot of fun doing it.
 
Here is the finished project. Each girl brought a toy and a clothing item for a little girl 6 years old that may not have had a very big Christmas. We talked about this during the last meeting and this one too and I felt like the girls understood what we were doing, because they seem to all have a very big heart while doing it :)
 
They each earned a "festival of trees" patch and some of the requirements was to learn about how some others may celebrate Christmas, we learned about safety at Christmas time, we had to make and ornament and this was our "use resourses wisely", we used a grocery sack as wrapping paper and then the girls decorated it with hand prints.
 
Here it is.
 
Here are the ornaments I made each of the girls.
 
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Decorating the Christmas Tree.

(11\24\11)Every year on Thanksgiving as we are decorating the tree our little friend from the North Pole shows up, and this year was no different. One minute nothing and the the next there was this little elf that Abby got from her dance teacher last year sitting on the mantel with her arms wrapped around a candle and a note crumbled up on the floor from BJ and there he was perched up in the tree. You can only imagine the excitement. (Not sure why I don't have a picture.)
 
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Thanksgiving.

(11\24\11)Thanksgiving. We had a great time at Grammy's house before going to Granny Jo's. Can't believe it's this time of year again already.
 
 
 
 
The guys were flying a remote control helicopter and Maggie did not love it, so she hid behind her uncle Jabbo.
 
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