Holiday Festivities!

I apologize for the marathon post...it has been a while.  Here are my X-mas angels in their new shirts from Grandma Wagener.

 Instead of going to Kent's work party, we attended a friend's murder mystery 1920s party!  It was a blast, everyone looked fabulous and really got into their parts.

                                                 Sarah, Amanda, Me and Saundra

                                                        Sly Sleaze and Vanessa Crooner.

 Sandy took all of us to the children's theatre to watch the "Christmas Story."  It was a great play, with the funniest part being when Randy went "wee wee" on Santa.

                                Some princesses visited us and wished us a Merry Christmas.

 I was able to attend all of the kids' Christmas shows....such a treat!  Danielle stood like this the ENTIRE time.  I have about 10 pics. because I thought it was hilarious!  She is the only one in the class who didn't sing OR do hand motions!  Gotta love that girl!  :)

 Brayden got to wear pajamas to school during his party...it was quite the party, they had a blast and made tons of crafts, sang songs, and ate lots of junk!

On Saturday morning we woke up the kids at 6:15, and I told them "We're going on a Christmas adventure!"  Brayden thought we were going to go ice skating....little did he know that we were going to spend the next 7 hours in the car, heading to the 'couve.  :)  For the one full day that we were there, we managed to go bowling, and it happened to be during Cosmic bowling!  It was dark and we got to jam out to old school music (songs from my high school days).  The kids loved shaking their bums!

                                           Auntie Kalin, Grandma, Grandpa and Ellie.

 We also got to celebrate Christmas early with my parents.  The kids were shocked and thrilled!

 New headlights from Grandpa, the kids thought they were the coolest, they immediately ran around playing hide and seek.

                          Miss Leila slept through the whole evening, but she sure looked cute!

 My mom got them a huge tub full of dress up clothes, with accessories.  The kids have been playing with it constantly....lots of arrests (from the police man), dances (for the princesses), space trips (for the astronaut), and jumping around (for the pirates and cowgirl).  Too fun!

Lindsey& Andrew, Christy & Molly, Meghan & Sloane, Jocey & Luke, Kathy and Conner (Molly is also hers)  My kids were with Kent.  :)

 I rounded out our whirl wind trip with a quick visit with the 'couve girls!  It was a wonderful visit that got cut short when we looked out the window and saw SNOW!  Snow in the 'couve is a scary thing, because no one can drive in it and they don't maintain the roads.  The party quickly broke up and everyone made it home safe and sound.  Thanks for hosting us Lins!

This is a pic. of Ellie that wouldn't upload earlier.....she is singing AND doing the hand motions AND smiling!  Too funny.