Christmas morning 2012

The Santa Train

 

 

 

One Saturday in December, we went with some friends to Blue Ridge, GA to ride the Santa train.

 

Christoph and Lydia on the train.

 

Amelia and Avery

 

Meeting Santa and Mrs. Claus.  Lydia kept her eyes on them the whole time!  Santa was extremely nice and patient with us since Lydia was very skeptical.

Overall, I think that both girls had a good time!

Class Christmas parties

 

Amelia and Lydia had their class Christmas parties on the same day. I was able to take the day off of work so that I could attend both of them. First I went to Amelia's party.

 

She didn't want me taking pictures.  :-)

 

They were doing a book exchange.  They had to pass the book to the next person while the music was playing and then whoever was holding the book when the music stopped got that book.  Then repeat and repeat until all the kids have books.  Look how much taller Amelia is than the other girls in her class!!!

 

When I left Amelia's party, I headed to Lydia's party.

 

Here she is with "Braybray" as she calls him.

 

Lydia's class

 

 

The First Half of December 2012

Picking out our Christmas tree

 

Getting our gifts from St. Nicholaus...new Christmas pajamas!

 

Checking out our video from Santa

 

Amelia sang in a Christmas program at our church.

 

That brings us up to speed until about December 9th.  I am trying to catch up so I will post more soon!

 

 

 

Amelia's Christmas dance recital

Amelia is taking a ballet/tap combination class this year and they had a Christmas recital.  She performed a tap dance to "Rockin Around the Christmas Tree".  It was really cute and she did a great job!

Before the recital

 

 

Thanksgiving 2012

For Thanksgiving, we went to Jackson, MS to spend the holiday with Christoph's brother, Kendrick and his wife, Sara.  Christoph's parents were also there.  We had beautiful weather and a really nice, relaxing trip.  Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures during our time there.  This is the only picture that I have...relaxing in the hammock in the backyard...

Dollywood 2012

On the Saturday before Thanksgiving, we took the girls up to Pigeon Forge to go to Dollywood.  We met my parents and Isabella and Beck there and we had a great day!

Isabella and I making our scared face on the top of the ferris wheel.

 

These four had a great time together!

 

Nana and Papa and the grandkids