Isn't she cute?

Macey finally got to build the

 snowman that she's been dying to make!

Preschool Christmas Program

Elizabeth and I run a small preschool program twice a week at our houses for our kids and we thought it would be a lot of fun to put on a Christmas program.  It consisted of songs, skits, ballet dance, and slideshow.  We had 20 adults show up for their performance and they did great!  Being the age they are,  we weren't sure what we'd get the day of performance.  Mace had some stage freight and didn't participate much at all, but all the other kids put on quite the show.  We all enjoyed some food afterwards and some cake and ice cream for baby Jesus.  It was a fun night!

side note:  After the majority of the people left, Mace finally wanted to do her ballet dance for us :)  And when they woke up today, Kels found her Christmas dress and put it on all by herself and wanted to do her performance all over again so I took some videos of them doing a mini performance.  I will try to get a few of those videos up soon. 

Here are some pictures my dad took from the night:

Nutcracker dance

Thinking she liked practice a lot better than the real thing.

Mary and Joseph with baby Jesus

"but He is stong!"

It's starting to feel a lot like Christmas!

Even though it doesn't look like Christmas yet in Colon, it sure is feeling like Christmas!  Mace was almost in tears the other morning when she woke up and noticed we didn't get snow after I told her we might the night before.  She said we can't have Christmas without snow.  It's gotta make it down here sometime soon!  I love snow especially since my days consist of usually staying at home with the girls or just walking somewhere in town so I don't mind if the roads are bad and Jason only has to drive 1 mile to work. 

Today Santa came to town and boy were my girls excited.  Mace knew exactly what she was going to tell him she wanted and couldn't wait.  She wanted to wear red to match Santa's suit even.  Kels kept saying, "Me...ho ho....lap!"  So off we went.....and this is how it turned out :)

As soon as we entered the gym where Santa was both girls were clenched to Jason and I.   They both were crying as we neared him so Jason and I got in on the pictures as well.  Mace did tell Santa that she wants a princess castle and Kelsey told him that she wants a dress.  He gave them a candy cane and they both said thank you and we were out of there :) 

Kelsey's words from the day, "Ho ho me candy...lap cried"

Macey is concerned she forgot to tell Santa that she wanted slippers as well....we'll see if she gets some!

I took the girls' pictures a few times this week to make our Christmas card from and here are some I am not using so you get to see them :) 

With Jason working a lot longer hours due to basketball season, we need more fillers in the day to keep us busy so we baked sugar cookies the other night.  Mace is a baking pro.  She must get it from her Aunt Brenda because I am not really a baker.  I didn't even have to help her, she knew how to put the flour down, roll it, cut them out and definitely eat them!  Kels didn't have near as much interest but she tried for awhile and did pretty well. 

I can see how Christmas will get more fun every year with the girls getting older.  Macey is so excited about it all, Christmas music, movies, books, asking about baby Jesus and quite worried that he was born in a barn, baking, lights, shopping, Santa, and wrapping presents.  Kels will point out everything around the house that has to do with Christmas and say "Miss miss"  and is determined to get a dress so she can "dance!" 

I just love Christmas time!

Wyatt is 2 years old!!!

This is little Wyatt and he just turned two so he needed some pictures taken. 

Couldn't he be a model?  Look at that face!

Happy Birthday Wyatt, you did a great job!