Friday iPhone Dump #246

One of Randy's clients sent home some sand art kits for the kids for Christmas.  At first, I was less than thrilled.  But it wasn't as bad as I imagined it would be and the kids really liked doing it!

We gave the kids their first present very early on Christmas Eve.  The weather was beautiful that day but wasn't going to be for many days after that.  They were so excited and have been out there so much...even in the cold!

More presents, later in the day...

We went to the 4pm Interactive service at church.  They got to pretend to be shepherds.

At one point they went on the long journey with Mary and Joseph to try and find a place to stay.

Here is my awesome Christmas gift from Randy and the kids.

Reading Twas the Night Before Christmas with Daddy.

Santa came!

We had very excited kiddos the next morning.

Hannah truly loved her elves this year.  She was so sad that they would be leaving soon and asked Santa to bring her a stuffed animal of Girl (her elf).  She saw them in a store and thought that would be a perfect way to remember her (and she could touch this one!).  Santa delivered and I thought her sleeping with Girl was adorable!

Christmas at Uncle Beebo's house. Unfortunately, this is the only picture I took all day.

The kiddos went back to Memaw and Pawpaw's for a couple of nights.  And although it's cold, they are managing to get some beach time in!

~Nancy

Friday iPhone Dump #245

Yep, I'm a little late...oh well!

Jacob and two of his friends went to Winterfest at Pine Cove for 2 nights.  He was excited to go and loved his top bunk.

While he was gone, Hannah got to hang out with her favorite babysitter while Randy and I went down the street to an Ugly Christmas Sweater party.

Although we didn't win, we did have fun.  And we also sang a lot of karaoke.  Here are Monica and Kristen in action.

The winner, although he was NOT wearing a sweater, was Greg who dressed (partly) as Santa.

The next day, he dressed fully as Santa at our neighborhood park.

We had just picked up Jacob from camp and he didn't get to see Santa.  Because he and Randy went to see Star Wars!

When he came home, he felt terrible and said he was cold.  His temp was 102+.  We found out the next day he had the flu...boo. 

Our elves were being crazy and acting like Mary and Joseph.

Hannah was wrapping Rocky's toys and putting them under the tree.  I thought it was so cute!

While Jacob had the flu, we didn't do much.  We were all tired of being here and when Hannah asked to play with cups, I let her.

And one night Hannah and I did Christmas moisturizing masks.  We were reindeer!

And, on Thursday, my Sequoia finally rolled 100K miles.

I bought sparkling grape juice for the kids and they love it.  They especially love it when I let them drink it out of my wine glasses.  Parent of the year right here!!

~Nancy

Friday iPhone Dump #244

OK, so let's start with all of the snow pictures!  It was so pretty when I woke up early (and I was so afraid it was going to melt) that I started taking pictures in the dark.

Hannah was first to get up and come play with us.  Jacob was a little harder to wake up but he did come out and play.  They were so excited!

When Randy left for work, he sent us this first picture and told us we needed to go drive around Ibis Lake because it was so pretty.  So, we did!

More of our backyard once the sun started coming up.

Driving Jacob to school that morning, we saw a few snowmen!

And, although it was overshadowed by the snow, they loved the trick the elves pulled where Darth Vader was using the force to hold Boy up on the wall.

That afternoon, we decorated gingerbread houses.

Hannah took the longest to finish her house but mainly because this is what she was doing every time I looked at her.

On Saturday, Hannah attended a princess birthday party where Elsa showed up.

On Sunday, she attended a "snow" themed birthday party and was covered with this white fake snow.

Hannah is constantly helping Santa keep up with the Nice/Naughty list.  Daddy often gets moved.

Our crazy elves wrapped our tree in toilet paper one night.

And Memaw and Pawpaw came to see Hannah's program.  While they were here, we celebrated Memaw's birthday.

And Jacob had a pack meeting where he earned his Bobcat badge.

Hannah's program was Wednesday and she was a beautiful Angel of the Lord.

We have a new, CRAZY, donut shop that opened near us called Hurts donuts.  They have huge donuts and crazy flavors.  Our elves brought a dozen one morning.  However, they were too sweet and too much for Jacob and Hannah.  They didn't like them.  Randy ended up taking them to work!

~Nancy