The girls had a fun week leading up to Christmas at school with a dress-up holiday theme for each day of the week, cookies and hot cocoa in PJ's in Hadley's class, plus an epic all day holiday extravaganza in Shelby's class on Friday. Remember how I mentioned after Halloween how I couldn't get over what a big deal they make of the holiday at school? Well, Christmas is over the top in their school, too! Shelby's class had their own Elf on the Shelf and did Christmas-y stuff all month long. Then on the Thursday before break they had a gingerbread house party, and on Friday Santa visited their class and each kid got to sit on his lap and talk to him, they had a snowball fight courtesy of a Kona Ice truck, they had a student gift exchange, cookies & hot cocoa, and the list goes on!! There was no shortage of fun to be had!
All of the first grade classes put on a holiday show for the parents one morning, too. It was a cute little show, and Shelby was even one of two lead singers selected for the Jingle Bell Rock performance!
{Shelby & Nicholas after the show}
{Shelby and her teachers--you can tell by their dresses that they go ALL OUT for their kiddos!}
{Shelby, a few of her classmates, & their teachers--Shelby has loved every bit of first grade!!}
We decided to let the girls open their gifts from Derek's family the weekend before Christmas. Derek's dad & step-dad sent us four HUGE boxes of gifts, and Hadley had been chomping at the bit to open them. We kept having to delay the gift-opening b/c Shelby just wasn't feeling up to it. After what seemed like forever, Shelby was on the mend and ready to open--Hadley's excitement couldn't be contained!
{We told the girls to pose for a picture in front of all the boxes before we opened them. Then almost as soon we snapped the picture, Brady ran over & sat in his lap like he knew how to pose for a picture?! He had never done this before, and we all got a huge kick out of it!}
{Brady attempting to a pose for a picture, ha!}
{Granddad & Grandma sent the girls little jingle bell bracelets, which Brady is modeling in this photo--he was a big fan of the bracelets! He kept walking around in them shaking his arms to make them jingle!}
{I feel like this picture perfectly represents life with a little brother. Hadley was trying to pose for a picture with her new gift, and Brady couldn't get his hands off of it.}
{Brady test-driving his new lawn mower}
After opening gifts from Granddad and Grandma on Saturday morning, we rode bikes & then decorated gingerbread houses while Brady napped. Maybe next year he can join in the fun, too!
We had planed to go to our church's early Christmas Eve service on Saturday evening, but since Shelby still wasn't feeling 100% and Brady is miserable in the childcare we decided to forgo it at the last minute and went to Glittering Lights at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway (a drive-thru light display). We're so glad we went, we all had the best time! And Derek accidentally forgot Brady's snack at home, which we were banking on to keep him content in the car. But they were selling kettle corn there, so Derek grabbed a bag for us all to share. I'm not sure how or why, but I had managed to go almost 34 years without ever once trying kettle corn. I'm officially obsessed now!
I'll be back soon with the rest of our Christmas posts! Hope you're enjoying the slow pace between Christmas & New Year's...I'd be enjoying it a lot more if we weren't cooped up with sickness! ;) I've got to nurse these kids back to health before the ROSE BOWL...eek!! :)
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