The week before Christmas

 Last week was the last week of school before Christmas break! One night when I went to check on the girls, I found the twins sleeping in the same bed together. So sweet.

Last Thursday was the last day before the break. All the kids had Christmas parties and had a great day.

 My three cuties before school started

 All my girls

 twin love

All the class parties were around the same time. While my Kinder class was busy, I snuck away to see Kennedy and Kaitlyn during their party.

 Kennedy

 Kennedy

 Miss Kaitlyn

 

 Kaitlyn

On Friday, the kids were off from school, but I had a work day.  I got everything ready for when we come back and I was ready to relax and enjoy the holidays! :)

Saturday morning, we all went to my mom's house to have Christmas with my family from Austin.

 Kaitlyn, Kennedy and Jillian

 The guys! Cooper, Cale and Jarrett

 Cousins!

 This is a great example of Jillian's personality! Such a silly one!

 Ready to open gifts!

 Jillian

 Kennedy

 Kaitlyn

" Frozen" shirt!

 Each of the girls got a different "My Little Pony girl" from Aunt Terri. 

They loved them.

 Next up: Our annual Christmas play. Jarrett is our narrator.

 Jillian (angel), Cooper (Joseph), Kaitlyn (Mary), Cale and Kennedy (shepherds)

 After the play my mom had a cute little nativity story that included passing out candy to help tell the story. Cute.  :)

We had a great day...unfortunately, that night I came down with fever and come to find out..I have the flu. Yuck! No fun!!

Nutcracker Tea

 A week ago, Kennedy and Kaitlyn were invited to go to a Nutcracker Tea with some of their little friends.

 Going to church!

 Kennedy before the tea

 Kaitlyn before the tea

 Sweet girls.

They were super excited to be all dressed up!

 One of their friends at Texas Safari

 Getting a picture with "Clara" from The Nutcracker

 Another friend arrived shortly

 They got autograph books and were very eager to get lots of signatures!

 Group picture! 

Ashlyn, Amanda, "Clara", Skye, Kennedy and Kaitlyn

 Before the show, everyone got to eat.  They had cute sandwiches, veggies, fruit, cheese etc.
They LOVED it!

The famous "Nutcracker"

They got a signature and photo with everyone from the ballet! They had a blast and I'm so glad they got a chance to go!

 This past weekend, they got invited by another group of little girls to decorate Christmas cookies. Fun times!

Tomorrow is our school's Christmas parties and then Christmas break begins!!

Thanksgiving and more

 We were all off this week and the girls just could NOT wait to decorate for Christmas...even though it was before Thanksgiving. We went ahead and put everything up and we have been enjoying it all week. The girls were thrilled!

 Kennedy

 Jilly

 My twinkies

 They love it when I pull out this nativity each year.

 Funny story: These are ornaments from Kinder last year. Each one has their picture on it. The girls could not tell who was who!! It cracked me up! I had to tell them which picture was theirs! Silly girls!

 Tinsel is fun!

 Jillian thought this was the best way to reach the top of tree....I had visions of her leaning in to hang the ornament and falling into the tree...so this didn't last long!

Kaitlyn, Kennedy

 Everyone, smile!! (Jillian had other thoughts!)

 My three Christmas cuties

 Hi Lucy!

 Silly, puppy....trying to squeeze herself into Scooter's little bed. 

Unfortunately, these are the last pictures of Lucy that I will have. Tues evening, Tony went out the front door to put the trash can away.  He didn't close the front door all the way and Lucy nudged the door open and took off down the street.  She never came back and we haven't found her since.  :( 
This broke our hearts...she was just curious and young. I'm thinking someone picked her up. She had her collar on, but not our phone number on it. Jillian has had a REALLY hard time with it. Lots of tears...she loved her...we all did.  So sad. :(

 We celebrated Thanksgiving on Wednesday this year at my parents house.

 My little turkeys. 

(Thankful that they got to wear their cute turkey outfits one more year!)

 Cooper and the twins worked hard making their own "Charlie Brown Christmas tree"

We had a wonderful lunch and enjoyed our time with family.

 

 Since we celebrated Thanksgiving a day early, we had a family day on Thursday. We took the kids to see a movie. (Jillian wanted to pose in front of the theater)

 "Frozen" was such a cute movie!! We all loved it.

The next day was my birthday...we had a yummy breakfast and Tony took me to see a movie during the day too. We ended the day by eating a Chuys with the girls. Fun day!

The kids played outside in front of the restaurant while we waited to be seated. Silly, silly girls!
We have loved having this week off to relax and spend time together. So thankful.