Christmas Eve

Cute kids, enough said!

Matthew's Christmas Program

This program made me just laugh and laugh. They had been practicing and practicing their songs for weeks. Night of the program, there teacher did a great job singing. There were a couple of kids that sang, one had his fingers in his ears, others where to busy finding their moms and waving. It was soooo cute!!!!

Santa came by after all the singing.  I don't have a picture of Matthew sitting on Santa's lap.  He went with my sister at the beginning while I was putting out all the cupcakes (that I got to make).  There is a picture of him on Santa's lap, just in my sister's camera.  I will have to get it from her before I forget!

First grade's Nut Cracker

Here is Allison's Christmas program. Every year, the school puts the first grade in charge of doing the Nut Cracker. It was such a cute program to watch. Allison was on of the Chinese Dancers, the tall Chinese Dancer in orange. She was so excited about this.  Anytime, while I was listening to Christmas music, and a song from the Nut Cracker came on, she let everyone know that it was from the Nut Cracker.  The day of the program, they actually got to wear "real" make up.  Wow did that make her day.  Enjoy the pictures!!

Christmas tree decorating

I have to admit that I had time "feeling" like it was Christmas. So, as an attempt to help me get it, we put the tree up a bit earlier then normal. That made a huge difference. Here are the pics of our tree decorating.

After the other two kids were in bed Maddy sat down and did her own rearranging.  Moved as many of the shiny balls to on area so she could sit there and look and play with them. 

Cute smile!

Her finished branch.  After she went to sleep I rearranged them, then I would have to do it the next night, and the night after that.  She wanted those decorations on that branch.  I eventually stopped rearranging  those decorations. 

Halllween

Halloween is not really one of my favorite holidays. I don't get a lot of pics around Halloween. There is no way that I would miss out on taking pictures of my cute kids all dressed up and ready for trick or treating.

This year Matthew was Spiderman, however, this is the only time he wore the mask. He didn't like the mask at all. Neither did Madalynn. The first time that Maddy saw him with it on she screamed he loud ear piercing scream. After he took it off she was fine. It just made me laugh, because it's not even a "scary" mask.

Madalynn was a Ballerina Bat. Besides how much of her chest it shows, I loved it, as did she. She absolutely loved the gloves and the wings. What a cute little girl she is!

Allison was a Wedding Bride. She is my sweet little romantic. She is always drawing pictures of someone getting married, or talking about when she gets married. So, it was very fitting that she chose to be a Wedding Bride for Halloween.

The serious picture of all my kids,

and the not so serious picture of my kids. The fun picture. These guys sure make me smile.

Matthew's first day of school

How proud and excited does this little boy look? He has been waiting a long time for his turn to go to school. He started his first day at "Exploring Time Preschool". His teachers are absolutely fantastic.

His sweet little cousin Chloe also was there with him. I think it helped having someone there that he new. What cute kiddos!! They get along sooooo great, which is so nice. They used to argue and fight all the time, but they are now great buddies. Makes me happy.