Santa's Holiday Hoedown

Abbey's play this year was "Santa's Holiday Hoedown." It was a cute story about Santa and his reindeer going to Branson MO. Abbey was a reindeer and did a great job. It was really cute! They performed with the 4th graders at the high school on the big stage. It was a pretty big deal and the gym was packed.

Baby Viola's Christmas Blanket

Gracie, Lily and Abbey working on Baby Viola's baby blanket.

Twas the Night Before Christmas

Lily

Lily

Lily's preschool class performed "Twas the Night before Christmas" this year as their Christmas play. Lily was to dress like a sugarplum and dance around the children's heads. She did a great job. She even sat on Santa's lap and told him what she wanted for Christmas. I didn't get a picture of that because we had to rush from her play to Abbey's play at the high school later that evening and Kent had the camera and Abbey so we could get her to the HS in time. Lily did a great job and was a wonderful sugarplum. She was so cute that she even made the front page of our local paper.

Merry Christmas

Abbey, Lily and Gracie

I didn't get our Christmas cards out this year. I am usually pretty organized and get them done and out fairly early. This year I was so busy with Cheerleading and work that I just didn't get it done. Anyway, here is what the Christmas card would have looked like if I got it out :) I had shirts made for the girls to wear around Christmas time advertising for their dad's new business. So, I decided to take advantage of our free advertising and have them sport their new shirts on our Christmas card. Merry Christmas!

Lone Star Christmas Performance

Beau, Gracie, Lily, Brandon, Katie, Abbey and Lucy

Abbey and Lucy

Beau, Gracie and Lily

We were able to have our Christmas program at church on the actual intended date this year! No bad weather! Yay! The kids performed the Christmas story. Brandon was Joseph; Abbey was Mary; Gracie and Beau were the wisemen/wisewoman as Gracie likes to point out. Megan was the angel. Gracie was the angel last year and decided that she didn't want to do it anymore. I think it was because she didn't like the giant angel wings she wore last year. The smaller kids were the stable animals. Lily was a lamb; Katie was a cow and Lucy was donkey. The kids did a great job and Annie did a great job getting and keeping them organized. It was really cute!

Kent's first job for Truly Custom

The upper cabinets in Mom's Kitchen

The Upper Cabinets in Mom's Kitchen with the big corner cabinet.

A different Angle on the upper cabinets.

Kent has been working on my mom's kitchen as his first job for his new company, Truly Custom. The Home Sales closed in September and Kent started his new business building custom cabinets for people. Once Kent gets past doing work for our family he has people standing in line waiting for custom cabinets. Anyway, here is a sneak peak of his first job.

Sledding after the blizzard

This is how Lily began her sledding experience after her hands got cold.

This is how Lily ended her sledding experience after warming up at Grandma Smith's. Grandma had her sit on her heater to warm her up!!! She did BEGIN the day with gloves.

Abbey carrying the sled back up the hill.

Abbey getting ready to go back down the hill. I had to walk Oreo while the girls went down the hill. (Makes picture taking a little difficult).

Gracie heading up the hill.

The girls have been wanting to go sledding since the first snowflake fell earlier this week. I told them it was too cold and then Lily started feeling sick so we hadn't made it out until this afternoon. (It was still too cold)! Anyway, Lily wasn't so sure when she started sinking in snow up to her knees going up and down the hill!!! I took her in the house and Grandma Smith warmed her up and she was ready to get back at it again. Abbey and Gracie had a great time going up and down the hill. Lily eventually enjoyed sledding. It was a little difficult to get any pictures with Oreo pulling me around!!