Christmas Fun

This has been a very busy week for us. So this is a long post.

On Thursday, Allie had her Christmas program at school. It was called "Christmas at the OK Corral". Allie did really well. It was such a cute program. Here is our little cowgirl.

Grandma and Avery

Allie has been teaching Avery all the songs and the motions. Here she is putting on her own show after the performance.

Friday night, Allie got to cheer at half time of the girls varsity game at ACS. Then, Saturday morning we went to ACS for donuts with Santa. Avery loved Santa. She hugged him and waved to him. Allie on the other hand didn't want to talk or sit with him. They ate donuts and wrote a letter to Santa. They also got to shop at the Secret Santa shop. Saturday night Chris and I went to the church Christmas party, while the girls played with Grandma.

Here is Avery with Santa

Here is Allie not with Santa

Sunday, we had our children's Christmas party at church. Santa was there too!! He has been really busy in Atlanta this weekend. Allie still didn't want to sit with him, but she did stand by him so I could get another picture with Santa. The kids did a craft and decorated cookies. They had so much fun.

Chris helping Avery with her cookies.

The best part of decorating cookies.. eating them.

Allie and her cookie

Allie with her craft.

I usually like to have Christmas decorations up right after Thanksgiving, but not this year. I really don't get into lots of decorations so I really don't know why it took us this long to get it all up. We finally got the tree up and the girls started decorating it after church Sunday night. Allie brought in this stool so she could hang the decorations higher. I had a flashback to last year when the girls were playing by the tree and someone,we still don't know which kid, pulled the whole tree over. It didn't fall on anybody and nothing really broke. Maybe that won't happen this year. We still didn't finish the tree and the girls have small trees for their rooms that we haven't started yet. Maybe we will get it all done soon.

We also have a special house guest this year for the holidays. This is the first year we have had the elf on the shelf. He comes from the North Pole to watch the kids. He reports back to Santa every night on how they are behaving! Then the next morning he is in a different spot in the house and the kids have to find him. Sunday morning it was still dark when Allie got up. I came in the kitchen to find Allie looking for the elf. They really like finding him and hopefully we can get a few weeks of good behavior before he goes back to the North Pole. We named him Sam, but Avery keeps saying "Where is that shelf?"