Tis the season to be jolly.......

Well it's official, the kids are out of school and it is now my full time job to keep them entertained, for a whole 8 days until christmas arrives.  Thank goodness my mother is arriving on Wednesday evening, having Nana here will make the task much more and fun and whole lot less work for me :)  The last week of school was pretty darn busy, we had school concert, 3 class parties, projects due, ortho appointments, and the list goes on.  This week is shaping up to be rather busy too, but more fun stuff!!  The girls have a fun dance recital at the old folks home on Tuesday - that will be really fun for them.  The elderly love to watch the girls dance!

 I have lots of fun things planned for this week before christmas (or should I say lots of things planned for my mom to so with the girls when she gets here!)  I want to take them to a movie (maybe even 2 if the first one goes well).  Last year when Leah was not even 2 years old we went to a couple during the break and she was so good.  So I figure it should work out this year too.  I plan to do some baking with them and some wrapping.  I am almost done shopping, really almost done and that is like a miracle!!  I am quite proud of myself for that.  I am picturing the malls to be pure kaos this week with all the kids out of school!

I have some cute picture from the girls Christmas concert a few days ago but I still need to upload them.  as soon as I do that I will add them to a post.  There are some pretty cute ones!!

Christmas Bells are Ringing...

Holy smokes it is less than 2 weeks til christmas.  How can that be?  It feels like school has just started.  The months are just wizzing by at a crazy rate, and for one of the first times in my life I am actually wishing I could slow time down a little.  My girls are getting so big and so old so fast.  I actually am starting to miss having a house full of toddlers!  Now it is a house full of homronal pre-teens!  Really they are getting so old and they want their space and they have an opinion and they certainly don't want mine!  I fell so blessed that so far they are such good kids.  They want to do what is right, they want to please us and they still even like to be around us.  We have such a great time together as a family.

The last few weeks have been especially busy leading up to Christmas.  We have put up the tree and decorated the house, put up our christmas lights and started baking.  Don[t forget the christmas music - we have been listening to that since NOv 1st!!  We have some fun nights out christmas shopping too! I just love the chirstmas sesaon.  Funny though at different stages of my life (like the ones where I was 8 months pregnant) I have found christmas to be alot of work, but this year I am just loving it!

Avri got her braces on a few weeks ago - she was so brave getting them on.  It really was not a fun procedure for an 11 year old but she got through it. She actually looks pretty darn cute with her braces on, I think!  And her teeth should be straight in no time.  She will only need them for 14-18 months!!  not bad!!

Below are a few christmas pictures of the girls around the christmas tree.

Good night for now - will post more soon!