Maddie Decorated Their Room for Christmas...

I LOVE THIS GIRL!!!!!

Holiday Concerts...

I really missed Darons Sax playing at a concert this year, but next year for sure!  We have a deal about that!  Anyway... here are the concerts we have gotten to attend this month so far!

Kaitlin had her first choir concert of the year for Christmas!  They did really good :)  She tried out for a solo and We were very proud of her for that!



We think she's the prettiest chick up there!

There was a song they danced to!  She hated that one...

Lauren was so excited to have her singing concert!  She has been walking around singing these holiday songs for months :)

Kevin got her to keep doing this with her hands at her ears!  Nice :)

Maddiegirl getting ready to have her 1st ever band concert!

She's playing the flute and doing great!  After xmas she will start practicing 20 minutes per day!  Was proud of her :)

Being cheesy for my benefit!

Beautiful :)

Some Traditions...

All of the kids making their Christmas lists...

Kaitlin helped Lauren and Maddie helped Emmy...

They were great big sisters!

Emmy was so excited and seemed to know what she was doing this year a bit... every commercial that comes on she "wants that!"...

List done, check!

Our handsome boy working on his Top 10!  He always does a top 3, and then a top 10... :)

Busy, busy!

So many things, so little time ...

Another list done, check!

And a third list done, check!

Fourth list completed, check!

And last, but not least... check!

Onto gingerbread houses!  We worked in teams this year... The little girls and Mom & Dad did one and the older 3 kids did the other house... they all worked pretty good together1

The finished product!

They ate as much candy as they put on this thing!

Team 2...  steady at work!

Daron made a super cute Santa...

Kaitlin did a really great elf... complete with striped pointy hat! :)

Maddie worked on icicles :)

Excellent:)

And the candy goes on...

Finished product front view...

Back view... the elf with the ladder and Santa on top!

More Christmas...

This is the extent of our outside decorations this year...  Can't find our white outdoor lights :(

Emmys sweet teachers sent her home with a present yesterday!!!  She did not wait until xmas to open it though...
It was a new book!

She loved it :)

Maddie made me this cute 3D card!

I love her cards & things she makes for me!

Maddie's class got to do cute individual gingerbread houses!

Kid art that has come home over this month!

More...

Maddie made me this for xmas and it was so inventive to use old dvds I thought!

Darons awesome candy cane pillow case from Granny, with love!

Maddie & Kaitlins are so cute with the pink pinsettias...

And... the blingy bow out of polka dot fabric!  I'm a sucker for the dots!

Here's the little girls darling bright green and pink and purple tree pillow cases!

I love the funky trees!  Emmy has to have this holiday pillow to sleep on now... if the other pillow with the regular case is on top she makes me switch them to sleep!

Ok, last but not least.... Maddie did the WHOLE stairway by herself this year!!!  She did awesome indeedy! :)