Christmastime is here!

Christmas time is the best and busiest time of year. Having kids in school with parties, teacher gifts, performances, spelling bees, caroling, GAH! has made it a busy time. I feel like every hour of the past two weeks has been scheduled. It's all good though. It's all parties and we all like parties. And food. Can't forget the awesome food. January is for diets though.

Decorating cookies

We decorate cookies every year and had a great time this year! All the kids are good at decorating now and I don't feel like I need to touch any up. They gave the cookies to all their teachers as gifts. Since Matthew has 6 teachers, Jenna has 6 and Sarah has 1 (plus music, gym, and art teachers) we had to make a LOT of cookies.

Christmas Caroling with 5th grade choir

 Jenna is in both choir and band this year. Her choir went Christmas caroling in the neighborhood around school. Luckily it has been so warm lately so no one really needed to be bundled up. Then Jenna had her spelling bee. Jenna did well in the spelling bee. She spelled sky, problem, and shoehorn correctly. She missed hubbub. Of course I wasn't exactly sure how to spell that either. I didn't get a pic of Jenna up at the podium. I was watching her rather than taking pics ;). I think I was more nervous for her than she was!

Jenna on the end

On Saturday Red Barrel Crafts had our third craft show. This one was actually profitable! I made $322! I know it doesn't sound like a lot for an all day event but it was a lot more than we made previously. We sold several coasters, Ohio signs, all my Say Grace signs (so they are not pictured), Jen sold some of her signs too. It was a great experience.

Red Barrel Crafts

Santa

Sunday evening our church had its annual Christmas Smorgasbord and Children's program. The kids did an excellent job singing. Sarah had a solo to "Happy Birthday Jesus". It brought tears to many people's eyes! She was spectacular. Matthew had an impromptu solo. He started singing Jingle Bells really loud during poor little Sophie's Bible reading. He needs to apologize to that poor little girl! Jenna's Club 456 sang and did dances as well. Jenna knew all the words to Carol of the Bells and sang so well!

Club 456 at the Christmas program

Kidmax

Erik made this beautiful wood Christmas tree!

This weekend will be even more exciting than last weekend! Sarah is getting baptized on Sunday. All the family will be here to see it and we will celebrate her birthday. Then we will see Star Wars. What an exciting weekend we have. And all our family will be here!