Misc. Monday: Christmas Day

6:30am. Shower, put pajamas back on, bake coffee cake, wait for girls to wake up.



8:00am. Iris up. Wake up Lilly & Daddy.

8:10am. Open presents.
9:00am. Eat breakfast. Play.



9:30am. Hendricks up. Help him open his presents. Feed him coffee cake.

10:30am. Give girls puppet theater. Take family pic. Clean up. Make green bean casserole. Get ready for the day.
12:30pm. Leave for Fogleman's.

1:30pm. Arrive at Fogleman's. Eat & Play.
3:30pm. Leave Fogleman's.



4:45pm. Arrive at my mom's. Decorate tree cupcakes.  Eat. Open gifts. Play.
8:45pm. Drive home.

9:15pm. Arrive home. Unload car. Wear new pajamas to bed. What a day!

Sew Crafty Saturday: Puppet Theater

 

I made the girls a puppet theater for Christmas this year. I saw it in The Land of Nod catalogue, and knew the girls would love it. They are always performing, telling stories, singing & dancing. I intentionally used gender neutral colors, and hung it in the door frame with a tension rod. The finger puppets were $3.50 for 12 on Amazon, and the hand puppets are actually bath mitts from the Dollar Tree. They fit in the pockets perfectly because they are so flat. Now it's time to sit back and enjoy the show!

Fab Friday: Christmas Eve

9:30am. Pre-op appt. for my sinus surgery on the 26th.
11:30am. Christmas in Chino.

4:00pm. Christmas Eve service at church.

6:00pm. Soup and presents at Grammy's.

 8:30pm. Leave out cookies and milk for Santa and



 food for reindeer.



 Set key and note for Santa on front stoop and



say good-bye to Buddy. (Don't worry. We have special permission to hug our elf on Christmas Eve each year).

 

9:30pm. Put kids to bed and get ready for tomorrow!

 



Sew Christmas-y Saturday: Pink Gingerbread & Lights Galore

Our annual gingerbread house went Hello Kitty pink this year. Thanks Wrather family for a wonderful birthday gift for Lilly. The boys didn't seem to like girliness of the house, so they chose to wrestle instead.

 

We also visited the Mission Inn Festival of Lights for the first time this year. It was beautiful! We ate yummy cupcakes, visited with some sweet reindeer, and enjoyed the cold wintery air. 

 



Fab Friday: Lilly Edition

This kid cracks me up! She gave me the "I've got my eyes on you"
signal when I was taking pictures, apparently too many of them!

Lilly's Kindergarten amazed us with a Christmas song spectacular on Thursday. It was quite impressive. The kids memorized about 10 songs and sang them all without any musical accompaniment!