true friends are hard to come by

Once a year I get to meet up with some of my oldest friends for a playdate. One friend and her sweet sister have moved to different states and the other two live in P-town :) It is so fun to see them, catch up and see all of our children together. It always makes me laugh to think back to memories of us at age 12...or 21 :) and now we are in our 30s with kids!!!!! It is hard to find true friends and even harder to keep them for as many years as we have been in touch. I hope my girls are lucky enough to have friends like these girls.

Here is a picture of our sweet babies.

Gloria

Reese loves dressing up. Lately as we have talked about, read books about, and gone to a few shows/nativity scenes she has been dressing up as Mary.


I caught her one day with baby Jesus in a bucket surrounded by a pink monkey, a large reindeer and a bear. :) She was singing Silent Night about as loud as she could get. Totally and completely precious.

Another day she ran up to Aaron and said "Joesph a child is going to be born to you named Jesus" and ran off. We burst into laughter.

She also pretended to be an angel yesterday and sang "Gloriaaaaaaaaaaaaa"




It makes me heart burst with happiness to see her pretending about her Lord and Savior.

Wrapping Paper

We decorated plain brown paper today with our hands and cookie cutters. I love the ones we made look like trees. We met some friends at the park and played, did this and then ate lunch. I did the others at home. The kids were more interested in playing at the park and I don't blame them. We hadn't had the pleasure of playing with our friends in a while. Reese's is the green tree and Saige's is the pink tree. She wouldn't have it any other way. EVERYTHING has to be pink these days with her. I like the look of the brown paper though. I may go back and get more and just do this for our gifts this year.

Reese the artist

Reese drew a picture of Rudolph. I asked why he had a sad face and she said it was because the other reindeer laughed at him. hahahahaha

Christmas Crafts

Here are the crafts that we have done so far.

Sweet angel hands!



Fun reindeer





Salt dough ornaments


handprint snowman ornament

School Christmas Party

The girls had their Christmas party at school yesterday. All the kids went to the main area and sang song and got to visit Santa. Saige's teachers were warned about her hatred towards Santa but surprise surprise she did pretty good (although she was being held the whole time!)

Reese's class played Christmas BINGO and decorated cookie. Saige's class ate pizza and decorated cookies. I was running back and forth like a wild women trying to be apart of both girls parties. I think next year I'm going to need Daddy's help! But Saige's class was SO quiet. The kids didn't say one word. Their teachers said that is how the class is all the time! All the moms were wondering why they aren't this quiet at home!

I also have two little gifts from the girls that they made. I started to open the one from Reese and she yelled "Don't PEEK!" So I guess I'll wait until Christmas!

Christmas at Cornerstone

The girls had Christmas at Cornerstone again this year. There were cards, necklaces, ornaments all homemade by the kids. The girls also got to decorate cookies. Saige was so excited to see her teachers but then we she actually saw them she didn't say a peep. LOL!!