Ugly Sweaters

Ugly sweaters seem to be the new thing. We have figured out that they are hard to find and they are very expensive when you are buying them to wear for a joke. Luckily Megan's friend Olivia's Grandma has tons of these sweaters and she was willing to share them will all of the girls.
It was ugly sweater day at school on Wednesday.

Megan and Jake ready to go to the ugly Christmas sweater birthday party they were invited to on Friday night.

I think we are done with these sweaters now so we have to give them back to Grandma. It was so nice of her to loan them to all of the girls.

Winter Concert

Megan had her winter choir concert on Wednesday. It was really good and we got to listen to alot of Christmas music.
The pretty tree they had all decorated.

Last time Alex and I only got there about 20 minutes early and we couldn't even see so this time we just stayed when we dropped off Megan. We had to wait for an hour but we got really good seats!!!!!

Olivia was on the wrong side of the stage so this was the best picture I could get.

I had a better shot of Megan but she made all sorts of funny faces. :)

They have a pretty big choir. This is all of them.

They sounded really good and they all seemed to have a good time so it was fun to watch. Now they are all ready for Christmas break!!!!!!

Tolo

Tonight is the Tolo dance at Roger's. We dropped everyone off at 8:00 and the dance lasts until 11:00 and then they are all coming back here to watch Christmas Vacation.
Olivia got over to the house at about 2:30 today so that they could get ready and Jake and Dalton arrived around 4:30.

Mike took the four of them down to the mall so that they could get a picture with Santa in their matching outfits.

Megan and Olivia after they got back home.

Olivia and Dalton.

Jake, Megan, Olivia, and Dalton before everyone else arrived.

Jake and Megan.

They wanted to eat dinner at home instead of going out so I turned our living room into a dining room and made spaghetti for them before the dance.

Savannah, Nick, Megan, Jake, Hunter, Gillian, Dalton, and Olivia. We are headed out the door. Everyone got in their stretches before we left so hopefully we won't have any pulled muscles when they get home.

I sure hope they are having fun!!!!!!!!!

Victorian Christmas

Megan and I went downtown to the Victorian Country Christmas last night. We never seem to buy anything but it is still fun to go down for the evening.
I think we normally go just to take pictures and buy kettle corn.

Megan did really enjoy the booth where they were making the candles. I remember when we used to stand and watch them make those forever with my Mom and Grandma so it cracked me up that she was enjoying them so much.

They do have pretty fun decorations outside so we take pictures of them all.

What a cute deer Megan found in the middle of the fair grounds. :)

We had a fun time walking around and we got our popcorn so it was a good night.

Christmas Decorating

It is starting to look a lot like Christmas around our house. We got most of our decorations up this week and it is looking good. We just have to do our outside lights and we should be good to go.
Megan and her new boyfriend, Frosty.

Alex and his friend Bryce did the tree in the family room.

Megan did the lights around the windows and put our tree in the front room together.

Those lights were sure exhausting. I guess she needed a rest in between jobs!!!!!

The finished tree by Alex. It turned out great!!!!!!

Megan eventually woke up and got her tree together. I had to decorate it but she got it all put together and fluffed up.

Hopefully we can do some of our outdoor lights this weekend before the rain returns.

Cabin

We headed up toward Crystal Mountain on Saturday to go and visit Bill, Sandy and family at their cabin.
Megan and Alex outside the cabin.

It is so pretty up there. We had to get another family photo. We got one in this same spot last year. :)

Bill made panini sandwiches. He had a lot of help from Sandy making them but they were sure delicious.

Megan had a great time playing with Leighton. She is getting so big already.

We had a great afternoon getting to visit with everyone and catch up. It was so great to get to talk with Jami and Justin and see Brianne, Phil and Leighton. We always have such a great time with Bill and Sandy and all of their family. We really enjoyed getting to go up and visit. Thank you so much for the invitation once again!!!!!

Early Christmas.....

My Dad and Bonnie are lucky enough to get to spend Christmas in California with Stefanie and family this year so we had them over for dinner on Friday to have an early Christmas with them here.
We ate dinner. Mostly left overs from Thanksgiving plus Prime Rib that Mike made on the rotisserie. It was really good.

Alex worked on his gingerbread house all night.

Megan worked on hers most of the evening also.

This was the best tree that we had to put their gifts under. It seemed to get the job done!!!

Bonnie opening her gifts.

My Dad opening his gifts.

We had a fun day not doing much at all and enjoyed our early Christmas dinner and gifts. I am so glad that they get to spend Christmas in California with the Keyes family. I wish we could join them!!!!!!