Monday, December 31, 2012

Christmas in Brandon














We packed up our meds and headed to Migi and Papa C's to celebrate on Thursday before Christmas!  We fit in a trip to the Children's Museum on Friday before our Christmas festivities Friday night.  As usual, the kids had a blast and Caroline quickly caught on to how presents are unwrapped!  Saturday morning we had brunch at Aunt Ingrid's and of course opened more presents!  Our time in Mississippi went by too fast!!!

Sickness and Maury's Class Party



It wouldn't seem right to leave out the sickness that plagued our house Christmas week!  I attended several festivities with the flu, I was at the doctor with Caroline and her bronchitis/ear infection before heading to Maury's class party and then several days later Carter got strep!  Thankful that 3/5 of us were on antibiotics Christmas day!  Anyway, Maury had a fun party and headed home for the holidays with a sack load of goodies!

Live Nativity




One of our favorite Christmas events is the live nativity at our church!  Caroline may have enjoyed it the most this year, she threw a fit each time we tried to take her away from the animals!

Carter's Class Party and Running Reindeer





Carter's 4K class party was a success!  They ate lots of goodies and shared with Caroline!  After they got all sugared up I took Carter and Caroline to Maury's school to see her doing the Reindeer Run.  Carter ran more laps that Maury did and asked every kids there if they would race him, he did talk a few into it!

Santa and Gingerbread Houses




Here's our best Santa photo for the year and a couple of shots of fun making gingerbread houses.  Maury and Carter were very upset to find Red snacking on a house one morning when they woke up!

Carter's Field Trip


I got to chaperon Carter's last field trip!  Driving 5 4-year-olds is pretty entertaining!  They loved the Christmas play at the Children's Theatre and everyone behaved!

Nashville with Mimi












Mimi treated us to a special trip to Nashville with the cousins!  We stayed at the Opryland Hotel, saw the Rockettes, went to Ice, and did a little shopping!  Caroline got to spend the night with Aunt Chris and Uncle Scott since she isn't quite old enough for all of the big cousin fun.  6 kids, 4 adults, 2 hotel rooms with 4 beds......whew.  We all had so much fun, Mimi knows how to plan a trip :)

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Christmas Concert and Batter Bash








We rested well after our holiday fun on Saturday and woke up ready for another day full of Christmas festivities!  After church we went to a neighborhood party and then started working on our Batter Bash treats!  Then we headed to church for Maury and Carter's choir performances.  They did a great job and everyone loved their delicious Rice Crispie Tree Pops :)