Happily Ever After: Holidays

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Monday, December 30, 2013

Christmas Day 2013

Parker was feeling a bit better and he enjoyed opening presents on Christmas Day!

When we woke up we opened our gifts/stockings from Santa Claus!

He loves flashlights!

He was VERY excited about his own "ipad"!!! It's actually an InnoTab3s but he calls it his ipad!

Then we headed to my Mom's for Christmas! We had a full house and boy did it make my heart happy!

Doing tricks with Molly!

My momma and bubba! Couldn't love them more!

We had such a great day! Parker is loved by so many! We have done LOTS of cleaning out, packing things he has outgrown, donating toys to Helping Hands, and re-arranging to make room for the new toys!

Monday, December 23, 2013

Watching the Christmas spirit through the eyes of my 2 yr old is absolutely priceless! He is so excited and filled with so much joy for all things Christmas! Candy canes, Claus, snowmen, presents, Christmas trees, lights, reindeer, jingle bells, and Curious George Christmas. And yesterday during our church's Christmas program, he got so excited to see baby Jesus and was singing along with all the songs! (humming along and singing made up words!)

Standing in front of our tree & playing jingle bells on his guitar!

We have watched "Christmas Monkey" so many, many, many, many times! Like everyday! He LOVES it!!!

My last week at school before break was filled with lots and lots of fun activities. We took all 130 kindergartners to the movies to see Frozen and it was so good! We made ornaments, ate tons of goodies, and had a book exchange with each other! My kinderkiddos had a blast!

Parker and I went to the Christmas Parade and he loved it! Parker waved and said Merry Christmas to all the floats/people passing by! He wasn't a big fan of the honking from the fire trucks but he was totally loving everything else! I love making these memories with him!!

We made goodie bags for all his friends in his class for their Christmas party!

All ready to go to his Party!

They made jingle bell necklaces and this made him very happy!

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Christmas is My Favorite!

We always decorate for Christmas the weekend after Thanksgiving!

Parker was able to help and he is loving it! His favorites are the Christmas tree and the lights, anything that is "Claus" (he doesn't say Santa Claus, just Claus)!

Here are a few memories from our day!

Parker helped hang A LOT of the ornaments this year!

Last year Keith hung lights around our living room. We loved it and decided to make it something we do every year!

This Mickey Mouse came all the way from Disney World! Thank you Aunt Net!

Parker's new ornaments this year: Woody from Mommy and Daddy, Claus from Nana and Pops!

This one made my heart so happy last year! A grandparent of one of my students was so thoughtful!

This one is special to me!

Parker got these two for us! (Nana helped him)

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Happy Thanksgiving 2013

Thanksgiving week was busy but so amazing!

I had school on Monday and Tuesday where my precious Kindergartners performed their Thanksgiving Program twice! Once for our school on Monday and once for their families on Tuesday. Also, we had a giant Thanksgiving Dessert with our families Tuesday afternoon. I am blessed beyond words with my class and their families who are so involved and excited to help and be a part of our class!!!

Wednesday we had a Thanksgiving lunch at my mother and father in laws house with my sister in law and her family. I am quite lucky that my best friend became my sister in law when I married my hubby! Lenette, Tim, C and B stayed at our house Wednesday night and it was such a great evening! We watched Santa Clause *The Movie* it's a classic, not the Tim Allen one.

Thursday, we got up, cooked, and prepared for our great Thanksgiving! We had my Mom, her hubby Tim, my brother Justin, Lenette, her hubby Tim, their kiddos C and B, my mother and father in law Linda and Ed, and Keith, Parker, and myself! :-) It was a full house and it filled my heart! It was a perfect dinner and I couldn't have asked for a better day!