Wanted to update before Christmas. 😃 We've had a fun December with a perfect blend of busy time and down time.
The month started off with Stella's 5th grade choir concert. She's shortie in the front row with the purplish dress and black boots next to the girl in a white dress.
She had a small speaking part.
Trying to get a shot with her little group of buddies.
They decorated gingerbread houses one Sunday afternoon.
Team photo of Stella's bball team. They are having a fun season! She's back row, 2nd from the right.
Elfie selfie on the way to an ugly Christmas sweater party. One of my 1st selfies! 😆
The group at the party. It was actually a "Reindeer Games" party, but we were asked to wear ugly Christmas sweater. It was a lot of fun!
The next day a big group of boys from P's class planned a get together at SkyZone. Lots of sweaty 8 & 9 year olds!
Lucy texted me this one day. Porter is hiding. LOL!
Our elf, Stanley, used P's iPad one night and played games on it and took an "elfie" and saved it as P's screensaver. He was dying laughing the next morning! Too cute!
P's class put on school mass last week (no photos allowed in church) I saw Stella and her 1st grade buddy, Alex, walking through the gathering space. The 5th graders are each paired with a 1st grader to sit with during mass to keep them in line since 5th graders are "king of elementary school". 8th graders are paired with kindergarteners and by 2nd grade they are expected to know how to behave during mass!!! ( looking at this, I see Alex is very tall for her age, her parents are very tall!).
The kids got out of school about 35 min early last week due to a large funeral rosary going on at the time carline would be happening, so we took advantage to finish up our Christmas shopping. Of course a stop at Auntie Ann's was in store!
Porter picked out the turd emoji pillow as the grab bag gift he gave out for our Christmas party. He was so excited!
One day before our Christmas party Mike starts putting up our backsplash and then painted the kitchen. Just a couple hours before the party the next day our kitchen was in a huge state despair! But it looks great! We painted it a light grayish/beigish color.
We drove around looking at Christmas lights last weekend! My pictures turned out horrible, but it was a fun outing.
We hosted our annual play date Christmas party, this is a moms group I joined when Stella was a new 1 year old.
The girls!
The boys! Only 5 families were able to attend, but a small group was fun, too. All night I kept meaning to get a mom and dad pic, but it didn't happen!
P had his last bball game of the season and their team won 1st place in their division! Proud of these boys, they didnt win a single game last year!
Part of the team. We were missing 4 boys that day so hardly any breaks for the boys!
And lastly, last night we went to an Iowa Wild hockey game. The kids earned free tickets through a reading program!
Stella with Berkin and Ally. Didn't get a pic of the boys.
