Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Gingerbread houses, Christmas dresses and fun with friends

The girls had fun making their Gingerbread houses this year!
 Josie's house (with Jillian's help)
 Kennedy's house
 Kaitlyn's house

Christmas dresses!
 This is her "It's almost Christmas and I'm so excited" face!
 The Monday before Christmas, I let the girls get shellac on their nails for the first time, thanks to a gift card I got for my birthday!  Payton and Ava joined in the fun.


 Pretty nails!
 Kennedy and Kaitlyn ended up having an all day play date at Payton's house. :)
Apparently they had a "bake off" too! So fun!

Friday, December 20, 2019

Christmas with Austin family

 About a week ago, Aunt Terri and Jarrett came down to celebrate Christmas with us. We ate lunch at Las Mananitas and then headed back to our house to open presents. Of course...Josie had to wear one of her cute Christmas outfits! :) Adorable.
 My girls!
 The "kids"
 Present time
....and one more Christmas outfit! :)

December

At the beginning of December Josie lost her first tooth! Can you believe? Only 4 years old. She was super excited, but she was nervous about the Tooth Fairy...so the Tooth Fairy left the dollar downstairs with Peppermint the Elf. Grandma and Pa gave her a dollar too and then took her to the Dollar Store to spend her money. How fun! 
 She chose a bath mermaid and a recorder.:)
I tried to dress Josie up in all her Christmas clothes for school this year....I think she had about 10 different shirts, dresses or outfits. Here she is in her cute dress at school.
 ...and same dress....ready for church
 December 1st brought Elf on the shelf and the Advent box. Each day they open a little door. It's just a fun way to countdown.
 One of the advent boxes said "Christmas movie night!. Josie watched Frosty and Snowman for the first time (eating her pizza) and the rest of us watched Elf (the big girls first time!) after Josie went to sleep. It was a fun night. Other fun activities included in the box were  Gingerbread house decorating, getting Starbucks after school, wearing Santa hats at dinner, baking cookies etc. :)
Jillian had a dance recital and did a great job!
 They performed at a retirement home. 
The twins had their 7th grade Christmas party that night.
 A lot of the girls had already left, but here are a lot of the girls. 
 The twins had their band concert at Town Center this year. They did a great job!
 Jillian had her 4th grade jump rope presentation. She did a great job with her group. After that, she had her last elementary Christmas party. 
Yummy food!
 Games!
 They won!
One weekend, I took Jillian and Josie over to Ms. Barb's house to hold puppies. How sweet is that?
Josie has really gotten into playing with her Frozen barbies. 
Tony gets in on the fun too!
More Christmas fun coming up!