Merry Christmas Eve

 Early in the day it was so nice out our neighbors were over to play OUTSIDE without coats! It was crazy. Then we needed a snack break.

                                         The boys in the front of the Christmas Tree.

                    Julian really liked the Busy Santa book that Grandpop and Gran got him.

 Our snowman place cards that Ryan worked so hard on, and he made these green signs for everyone with their name and a picture of what they like to do. It was so cute. Twelve in all!

Handsome boys for church.

                                                      Exchanging gifts brother to brother.

                                         Coco likes the Lenox ornament tree in the kitchen.

                                             Ryan likes the race track that Andrew got him already.

                                Andrew played some Christmas songs for us to sing along to.

                                  Leaving cookies for Santa

                        Night Before Christmas yearly reading and re-enacting

In case you were wondering, Andrew has been helping me blog a lot lately. He likes to arrange and fix the pictures and caption them. Future yearbook editor.....hmmm

Hampton Play, Lights on 34th street, & School Parties

The teachers did a cute play, "Santa through the 50's" to raise money for a new small playground for the little guys at school. It was very cute for the kids to see some of their teachers performing. 

                                               One of Andrew's teachers, Mrs. Haines

 Afterwards, we headed down to Hampden with some friends to see the lights on 34th street. It is a street of rowhomes that goes crazy with lights and some even let you walk into their homes.

In case  you are wondering, Ryan was SOOOO thirsty, that he couldn't even function.

 A Gingerbread Party and a Dance off Kindergarten party!

Hampton Pool Tear out

They are tearing out our old steel lined pool to upgrade to a new one. The invited all the kids out to take one last photo before it went the next day. Plans are underway for a new opening on Memorial Day 2016.

Cookies

We had some eager helpers with our Christmas cookie making this year (for about 20 minutes!) I wish I would have taken a picture afterwards, because I think we had over 100 sugar cookies! Happy Sugar HIGHS!

Julian's Preschool Play

Our little lamb was part of his school play and was supposed to sing "Away in a Manger," but he was a little shy and kept his fingers in his mouth. He had been practicing for weeks and really likes the song. It was super cute.