A Busy Day of Holiday Fun!

 Hannah's class made a gingerbread house today!  The teacher's instructions: Put the icing and candy on the house-do not eat it!  All the kids thought they were sneaking icing and candy and were so funny trying to hide it!

 Hannah's finished masterpiece!

 Emily's class craft today was gluing items to a star learning the five senses of Christmas: Taste(candycane), smell(cinnamon), feel(bumpy popcorn kernals), hear(jingle bell), see(shiny blue circle).

Emily finished her special Christmas Star!

 Hannah and Emily hosted a Christmas Princess Tea Party today with their best school friends!  Trying to pick out what to do first!

 Grace helping Hannah with her makeup!

Hannah having colorful highlights put in her hair by Mrs. Ann(Hannah's teacher from last year).

 Emily having her nails done!

Emily's best friends from her class!

After makeup, hair and nails-the girls all enjoyed pizza, cupcakes and pink tea!

 Two pretty princesses playing with candycanes!

 Hannah helping the other Rapunzel with a little more blush!

 Then another Christmas Party with our MOMS Club friends!  The girls loved that the playhouse was turned into a gingerbread house!

Fun on the zip-line!

 William loved the big tree swing!

 Our MOMS Club friends!

 After the group picture the kids went on an ornament hunt(instead of Easter eggs, plastic ornaments were hidden around the yard)

 Then the kids were surprised with snowballs!  It is 60 degrees and the kids are having a snowball fight!

Watch out-William can eat a candycane and throw a snowball at the same time!

Hannah hit me with this one and just laughed!

 Today Sparkle Finn rolled the girls' Christmas Tree!

Emily woke up very upset that the elf messed up her pretty tree and that the elf was sitting on her shelf above her bed.  She cried until she was able to take off the toilet paper.  Not quite the reaction we expected! 

 Today Sparkle Finn rolled William's Christmas tree!

 An interesting afternoon at Five Rivers about Owls.

 Each child was given an "owl pellet" to dissect

 and then the kids tried to identify the bones...

using their magnifying glasses.

After the kids identified all the bones, feathers, fur, etc it was time to pretend to be an owl and play the "Quiet as a Mouse" game.  Hannah is the owl and has a bandana around her eyes to pretend it is night and she must use her ears to hear the "mice".  The "mice" are pretending to eat by picking up beads as quiet as possible and Hannah has to point in the direction she hears a "mouse".

 A huge knock down hug for Mrs. Shonda!

We do not want to leave 5 Rivers and we are not letting Mrs. Shonda walk away!

 The girls wanted to play hide and seek and took a really long time hiding. They said, "Not ready yet, not ready yet... okay see if you can find us!"  I walked into their room to see these little fingers from the inside of the shutters. 

 When they yelled "BOO"  I was actually surprised to see that they had both changed into their favorite bathing suit.  The high was in the 50s and they were trying to convince me to take them swimming. We are already ready for summer again!

 William is ready to go to the high school theater for his school Christmas program in his handpainted tree shirt!

 Walking with his class into Trojan Hall.

First song was, "Up on the Rooftop..."  William's class is center stage and he is on the left end of the front kneeling behind the green present.

 The second song was "Frosty the Snowman"!

William had fun singing with his class!

 We love our Christmas PJs!

 Now that we have our Christmas tree decorated our elf came!  Hannah was the first to spot him in our tree! The girls wanted to name him Sparkle Shine and William wanted to name him Finn McMissile so they compromised on Sparkle Finn.

Monday morning the kids woke up to find a snow angel by Sparkle Finn in the middle of the kitchen floor! 

 Spanish Fort Christmas Parade

 William's best friend from school, Ella!

 Then time for lunch by the river...

Hannah's favorite place for crab claws!

And our favorite place to play in the sand!

 Emily saying, "Ho, Ho, Ho!"  We are excited to be at Fish River Christmas Tree Farm!

Playing hide and seek in the Christmas Trees...

Watch out for Emily!

 We pick this tree!!!

 The kids helped cut it down and roll it back to the van!

William was the only one who wanted to talk to Santa!