25 days of Snitch!

This year Snitch, our Christmas elf, left 25 awesome things for the girls to do everyday leading up to Christmas.

Day 1 began with some peppermint bubble bath for the girls to use to "relax" since he was planning a very busy month :)

  

 

...Making the bird feeders...

 ....Making homemade cinnamon buns...

  

...The completed gingerbread houses Snitch left for the girls to make... 

...making Christmas pancakes...

 ...going ice skating...

  

... making those gingerbread cookies to give to Santa...

 

  

  

...watching The Polar Express before bed...

...with their bells (they believe :)

...the offering of the cookies...

...and some food for the reindeer left on the roof...

This was the best Christmas season ever!

Christmas Party, 2014

I *think* this is the 3rd year we have hosted Santa coming to our house to read " 'Twas The Night Before Christmas".

As usual, a good time was had by all :)

 

This year Santa had a magic watch that told how 

naughty or nice the kids were on a scale of 1-10....

...from a parent's perspective the (completely-random-luck-of-the-draw) results were pretty accurate and quite interesting.

I'll just leave it at that :)

This year Santa brought all the girls PJs again...

...Santa did very well!

Family photo...

...and the Big Girls...

LOVE the new PJs that were given to the girls!

The next  morning we woke up and played a round of Tokaido, our current favorite game.

(I won!)

(The party next year will be in our new house---yay!!!)

Quincy's 2nd grade Musical: Spaced Out

It was the same musical that Ellie did last year...

...just a different character.

(I think they were spaceships?)

Quincy's class did Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star for their class song...

...the lights were turned out for the number and all the kids held flashlights.

It was cute :)

(...always in the back row... :)

Quincy's teacher this year is like Mary Poppins

(she really is just sooo nice)