Baton Class Party

For the last class of the year Allie's baton class had a party for the all the girls.  Each girl made a card for another girl in the class, they made an ornament and did a gift exchange.  Abby even got to make a card.  She made her card for Meemaw.

Pascal the Elf

Pascal the Elf has come to live with us till Christmas.  His job is to watch the girls and report to Santa if they have been naughty or nice.  I am sure they will be nice.

you can learn more about The Elf on the Shelf at http://www.elfontheshelf.com/#/home

The girls were so excite to find Pascal this morning sitting on the entertainment center waiting for them to wake up. Allie was excited in fact she woke up at 5:50 this morning.  I told her to go back to bed I would come get her up in 10 minutes!

Pictures with Santa

Saturday we went to Bass Pro Shops to visit Santa. You get a free 4x6 picture with Santa and the kids get to play games and make a craft.  The craft changes every week so in theory you could go in and see Santa every week and make a new craft. 

Abby at first did not want to see Santa but I finally got her over to see him.



Allie was super happy to see Santa, so excited in fact she forgot to tell him what she wanted!  She did go back and tell him. 

Thanksgiving to Pictures with Santa

I have no pictures from Thanksgiving.  I can hardly believe that fact myself.  Although I have no pictures we were very busy over Thanksgiving.  My parents came over Thursday morning and we all went to Meemaw's for lunch with Debbie & Chris and the kids.  I guess I should not call all their children kids, Daniel is in college now.  After lunch the girls played with Hannah till we left and came back home to get ready for Thanksgiving Round 2.  Keith came over for dinner.  My mom made lasagua and brought it over for us for dinner.  We even called Kevin (my other brother) just to let him know what we were having for dinner.  If you have ever eaten my mom's lasagua you would know why we make sure each other knows when we get to eat it and they don't.  It is all done is brotherly/sisterly love of course! But I am sure my mom will make some for Kevin soon enough.

After dinner we all hung out at our house for a while and even bought a few gifts online before we went to bed. 

Friday morning my mom and I got up bright and early, well it was still dark outside and off shopping we went.  Being Black Friday was not all that bad for us.  I found a GREAT parking spot at Wolfchase, Kohl's and Target.  We did not have to wait very long at Penny's, the Disney Store or Target when we made it there.  I found some bargains and some gifts as well.  We are asking Santa for a Wii and I am pretty sure we will get that so I bought me and Raymond the Wii Fit for $67!  I also found some great summer out fits for the girls on clearance at Gymboree.  The only crazy place we went was Old Navy.  the line was worse than a queue at Disney so I turned around and left.  After our shopping morning my parents left to go home and the girls and I made a little trip to Hobby Lobby. 

A few days ago I tried to take some pictures for the girls for our Christmas Cards.  It did not work every well so I chose other pictures for the card but here are a few from that afternoon.

Kindergarten Thanksgiving Feast

Tuesday was the Kindergarten Feast at the girls school.  The classes came in and everyone sang three songs and then got to go eat with their families. We ate first with Allie's class and then moved to Abby's class and talked to other parents and her teachers.  After the Feast was over I checked the girls out of school, I did not want to come back in less than 2 hours to pick them up, besides all they were doing was watching a movie that afternoon.

Abby's Disguised Turkey

Abby also had to disguise a turkey for school.  Here is her ladybug.

Birthday Party

We had the girls party at our new church building.  We let the kids play outside for a while and then went inside to the Great Hall (where we have Children's Church) to play pin the tale on Bullseye, eat pizza, play Simon Says, and open gifts.  I think everyone had a great time.  It was a really nice day and I could have held the party outside but you never know what kind of weather you are going to get in November in Memphis.

Raymond helping Abby play basketball

 
Allie on the playground

 
 
 
 
 
 

What is a birthday Party without presents?

Princess Tiana's


Jewelry Beads


Woody from Toy Story
 

Maximus from Tangled
 

And MUCH MUCH MORE!!

Birthday Cake

This year was the first year that the girls wanted totally different cakes.  Two years ago I made 2 round cakes into balloons and last year we were at Disney and I had Disney make cupcakes for the girls.  Abby's choice was Toy Story and Allie's was Barbie.  I did not think the Barbie options that were available were age appropriate for 6 year olds so we choose Princess.  I bought at the Disney Store these play figures sets for cake toppers.  

 
 
 
 
 

Disney Basket for Family Fun Night

Friday night was Richland Elem's Family Fun Night.  You could purchase BBQ from Central BBQ (Yummy!) and the kids could do games and crafts.  They also has a Silent Auction for Baskets that each Class put together.  The money raised from the baskets gets divided equally between each teacher at Richland to purchase items for their classroom.  As main room mom for Abby's class I was in charge of the basket.  Since I was in charge I got to pick the theme!  I chose a Disney theme.  Here is a picture of the basket and a picture of what all was given and purchased for the basket.  It was a lot of fun putting it together.