Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
Gingerbread Elf was back this year and up to his old antics! He also brought several fun treats this year! Samantha loooooved going downstairs to find him each morning. Her joy is contagious!
Of course he brought ornaments – a Narwhal for Samantha for her soccer team, a basketball goal for Spencer, and a robot for robotics for Maxwell!
That silly elf!
We did make it up to MBC to decorate gingerbread houses. Poor Spencer was home like this…
but the others had fun making their masterpieces with friends!
Christmas fun all around!
It’s not a full Christmas celebration unless we get to celebrate with Mrs. Susan!! She stopped by last week with presents we could only expect from Mrs. Susan!! In Mrs. Susan’s world, bigger is always better!
Of course Mrs. Susan always has something up her sleeve and the kids started opening those giant boxes only to discover…another box! ha!
But inside those smaller boxes were some pretty awesome gifts!
She knocked it out of the park with a Holiday Barbie for Samantha and Bryce Young jerseys for the boys! So awesome!!
While the gifts are great, the best part is always getting to see Mrs. Susan and give her a big hug!
We love you Mrs. Susan! Merry Christmas!
We made it to the last week before Christmas! It’s been busy busy already with fun holiday activities – and a little sick thrown in. Boo! First Robert got sick with some kind of fever virus that took him down. Then Maxwell got hit with a respiratory virus and we ended up at the doc to get some steroids. Finally, Spencer started running a low grade fever that he couldn’t shake so we again ended up at the doc and got a dreaded flu diagnosis. Noooo! Thankfully he wasn’t that sick but did have to miss 4 whole days of school. He was out Monday through Thursday of last week but did get to go on Friday for the final day before Christmas break. Everyone is feeling good now and hopefully we are sick-free until 2022!!
Before everyone got sick, the kids had their Christmas program up at school. I was so happy to have it back as the traditional in-person program this year. 5th graders don’t participate so it was just Spencer and Samantha but they both did great! Robert was supposed to be out of town so I had another special date with me to see the program – Mrs. Susan!
Samantha was looking cute as always…
As was Spencer! 3rd grade was supposed to wear an “ugly holiday sweater” but this is the best we could do. Not ugly but clever! I also made him put a collar shirt on under it much to his chagrin. There might have been some bribing involved. No shame in my parent game!
Love my trio!
Each grade K through 3rd came on and sang a few songs. It was very well done and very cute!
Spencer is full of enthusiasm and energy on stage, just like his brother. Please read that sentence with all the sarcasm intended! ha!
He did a nice job and did everything just as he was supposed to!
The kids had to do two performances a day for two days. Robert was supposed to be out of town for both but, since he got sick, his trip got cancelled! He didn’t have the flu and felt better by the second day so he got to go up and catch the next day’s performance! Hooray!
Samantha opted for an outfit change…
and Spence just stuck with what worked!
They both did a great job both days! This is Spencer’s last year for the Christmas program and I’ll be sad when the days of Christmas programs are all over. Enjoying it while is lasts! Merry merry!