Christmas Season Fun

Two months later, let's wrap up December activities, shall we?
UPDATED:
I almost forgot Miss Elli's Christmas program!  Her music teacher was great with child so they had their Christmas program on November 14 before she went on maternity leave.  It was weird having a Christmas program before Thanksgiving, but whatever works...Her class wore white like little snowflakes. 

The kids were so excited that we got some snow at the beginning of December.  It was SO cold!  Too cold for me.

I was surprised Elli could stand it!

She has to wear her "gwubs" (ie gloves).

That same weekend, Noah had his program at church.  They did 'The Best Christmas Pageant Ever'.
Here's what Elli thought about it.  :)  To her defense, the first performance was during naptime.  She loved the evening performance though!

It was such a precious program.  Noah was in the angel choir.  He said he didn't want any speaking parts.  :)

He sang his heart out and showed his rhythm and moves in his school program.  His favorite?  Go Tell it on the Mountain!

After program pictures...
Memaw and pappaw.

Sister.

Mama and daddy

Elli loved her twirly Christmas outfit! :)

Sitting like a princess again.  She's a mess.

The kids love to go to Rhema every year. Lights by the thousands and thousands!

Family Pictures 2013

Thankfully we found a new photographer this year so I wasn't trying to pretend I was a photographer and beat the camera timer.  Plus, you couldn't beat the piece of property where she took our pictures!  Brandon and Noah were ready to move in.

Sister Sass.

Noah's First Concert

Toby Mac! And the Mac is back no slack... (1992 DC Talk anybody?)

My boy has some good taste in music and he loves him some TobyMac!

We took him to the Hits Deep Tour at the BOk Center on December 12.

We also got to see The Capital Kings, Colton Dixon, Brandon Heath, Chris August, Jamie Grace, and Mandisa!  It was such a fun show!

 It was also VERY loud.  Noah wore headphones.

Toby and friends snuck out to the center of the crowd closer to us.  It was way cool.

 Noah was SO tired by the end, but he was determined to stay and hear 'Me Without You'.  Of course, that was the finale!

Thanksgiving 2013

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with my mom's side of the family at my cousin's house.  She spoiled us so much with her amazing cooking!

Here's my brother Ryan and "baby" Easton.

 The kids had fun playing with their cousins.  It's a miracle they're all looking at the camera!  Easton loves Noah!  He is so sweet trying to keep up with him like he's seven years old too.

 Memaw and pappaw wanted a picture of our little family for their Christmas card...

 Elli loves a dress that lets her sit like a princess (where you can't see her legs or feet).  :)

 On Friday, we drove down to Frederick and had Thanksgiving with Brandon's family.  The kids had fun playing with daddy's old toys out in the dirt.

There is a wonderful place in town called the Crawford Collection.  We never even knew about it!  This Frederick man has been on exotic hunting expeditions his whole life and has his collection downtown with every animal you could imagine.  Noah L-O-V-E-D it!!

Afterward, we went outside where they were making brick oven pizza.  Yum!  It was such a fun outing.

Disney World Day 5 - Magic Kingdom

We went back to Magic Kingdom on our last day to do some of the things we missed. This was the fun mid-morning parade that almost ran us over.

Woody and Jessie!

We rode the Big Thunder Mountain roller coaster and used the rider swap again.  It was an ok coaster.  My parents took the kids to Tom Sawyer Island while we rode.

The boys (and Elli) had to do the Tomorrowland Speedway.  It was COLD that day!

Cruisin' with Daddy...

We rode Space Mountain and memaw and pappaw went to buy the kids some souvenirs and then they rode it too!
Here's my cute little Mouseketeer modeling her new ears.

We had a great time and got our fill of Disney for years to come.  :)