Christmas Activities this week...I'm exhausted

Brennen, I caught him as he was walking across the stage

Makenna & her best friend Brylee (you would think with that red hair she would be mine!)

Right before they started singing the song she hates!

On stage afterwards

Garret & Santa

This week was filled with Christmas stuff going on. We had 3 nights at the school this week for the Christmas programs. Tuesday night we went to see our neighbor & Makenna's best friend Brylee sing. Makenna's was on Wed. night and her grade sang 3 songs, I'm a bad mom because I don't remember them all, I do remember Joy to the World, and then there was December Nights, December Lights, she continually reminded me for the past week how much she hates that song! She was on the front row & looked so pretty, I was so proud of her! We were lucky to get front row seats. (Todd is on the school board, so we got reserved seating...spiffs of the position I guess!) Thursday night was the 8th grade's turn. They did a Nativity play/scene. Brennen was the big shot narrator who read the story of the birth of Jesus along with another girl in his class! He looked so handsome & grown up, my little boy is long gone now, he is morphing into a young man right before our eyes! He did a great job. It makes me happy to see that our school still carries on the traditions of singing Christmas songs & having the kids read the nativity story. In Mesa this wasn't an option, in fact it was getting to a point where they didn't celebrate any holidays in school for fear of upsetting those who didn't celebrate that particular holiday. Out here in Palo Verde/No man's land it is still good old fashioned Christmas songs & the birth of Jesus celebrated...and for that I am happy! :) Also this week was Garret's Preschool Christmas party where he got to sit on Santa's lap & get a toy, he was pretty happy to sit on his lap & open the present up. This is now the 3rd Santa he has sat on this year...and each one he points out cannot be the "real" Santa because they aren't wearing real black Santa boots, they are just black coverings, so any Santa's out there, you are gonna have to step it up & get some real black Santa boots cuz you ain't foolin the 4 year old!