The Before Christmas Fun

As always it was crazy busy before Christmas this year, so here's a run down of some of our "pre" Christmas festivities.

The Sunday before Christmas, all dressed up.

The kids annual Christmas piano recital.

Granny and Poppy with most of their grandies.

Our little gift Kate.

The annual Christmas Eve, just opened their new pj's so let's take your picture in front of the fireplace and get your butt's to bed or Santa won't leave you anything picture.

Nutcracker 2009

The kids participated in their schools annual Nutcracker performance. This year Nate was part of the Reed Flutes and Emily was an Arabian dancer. It was fun to watch; however, Nate was not going to hold his partner's hand no matter what. Luckily the mom of his partner is a good friend and didn't kick Nate afterwards. It's always fun to see a school performance. You never know what you're going to get!

After the show.

Thankfully they were supposed to pull the pouty face.

Em the Arabian dancer.

You can almost tell what she's thinking, "How did I get stuck with this guy? Just grab my hand for crying out loud!"

And just because it's Kate.

Emily also earned her Faith in God award at church. Her leaders sure know how to motivate these girls. That is the biggest cookie I've ever seen.