Madison's Christmas Program

Madison had her first xmas program for preschool last Friday. Jesse and I were able to leave work for the hour and meet up with Robin and the kids to watch. She looked so sweet and was super excited. She loved her wings that they made and was happy to know she got to keep them forever! Max kept moving when I was taking the pictures so they turned out a little blurry. Luckily we have the whole thing on tape, and we were able to share it with relatives last weekend at our family xmas celebration. I took a few short videos from the camera to post on here, so it will give a little glimpse of the program. Enjoy!

New window seats

Last year, we had someone custom make window toy boxes for our dormers upstairs. Our friend, Kristi (on her maternity leave), made cushions for them so the girls could read in there. They were very excited, and we know that this will be a favorite place to read in the future.

More parties!

We had our annual party at our friends house, the Krieski's. Santa paid a visit and brought puzzles for everyone! Macy loved her Brown Bear puzzle, and asked for it right away the next morning. Santa talked about hearing how the girls were doing from our elf, MoJo, and that Madison would soon earn her Ariel doll! The little guy, Tyler, was born in Oct. Another great friend for Max! We are truly blessed with so many great friends!

Play Date

We had some friends over last Monday and the snacks were a big hit! Poor Maya couldn't

eat all of the choices we had, but Keely was prepared with puffs!

Our little elf

As I was typing in the last post, we have an elf named MoJo who reports to Santa every night. Well, here is a pic of our little elf!

Breakfast with Santa/Bumpa

Last weekend was a busy one for us. We went out early Sat. morning and got our Christmas tree. The girls enjoyed decorating it (of course in dress-up clothes)! Madison and I went to The Princess and the Frog movie with our friends Madelyn and Tara. She enjoyed her first big screen and said it was as big as a house! Then Bumpa came to watch the kids for us while we attended a holiday party. Sunday morning we met our friends out for Breakfast with Santa. The girls enjoyed the breakfast and it was even better with bumpa and Santa there. Bumpa and Nana also got them Elf on a shelf. Mojo is now our elf and reports to Santa every night

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Party

We had a family xmas party to attend last Sun. The La Valle staff got together for a couple of hours. It is so fun because many of us have young kids, and they all play so nice toegther. The girls got to wear their fancy coats and picked out a dress, and Max wore his new St. Nick outfit. The girls especially liked decorating gingerbread cookies (and eating them) with their buddy Braden. They also got a little present box filled with goodies before they left. Thanks again Jenny for hosting and Shirley for helping her!