Christmas Program

Baby Laura! Such a big girl! Such a happy baby!

The Friday before last was Rebecca's Christmas Program at school. Her class sang "O Come Let Us Adore Him."

Rebecca did great! The kids didn't really know what to do. Joseph cried for his mom the whole time, the three wise men laid in the floor and Rebecca got up front and cheese for the audience the entire time. Little Matt Rogers.

That night Ms. Joan spent the night with us so Matt and I could go to his work Christmas party. It was really fun! Last year they had the best band and this year they had a lame DJ so it was not as awesome but there were moments of awesomeness. Like when Matt danced the Gangnam Style dance. He had been talking it up and even practicing this dance all week at work so when DJ played this song as the very first song of coarse Matt had to get on the dance floor. What made this even better was that before the DJ started playing there was some Irish dancing for our entertainment. There were like 8 dancers, like 4th to 8th grade girls in super glittery outfits and crazy curly wigs on, Toddlers and Tiaras style. They were still on the dance floor when the Gangnam Style song came on so it was just Matt and the beauty queens dancing the Gangnam Style dance in front of about 400 people. Awesome.

The next night our Friend Marty had a Christmas party at his house. He has the coolest cabin in the woods. We had a great time. Rebecca loves her some Marty!

Laura had her 4 month check up this past week and she is doing great! She's about 50th percentile for everything.

Random, I know, but here's a picture of Christina and Baby Jim with hair. It's so funny to me!

On Thursday Matt's work put on a children's Christmas party and it was completely awesome. So over the top. Decorations, a huge buffet of kid food and treats, caricaturists, photo booth, arcade games, dance floor, Santa was there. It was awesome!

And Charlie was there! So he and Laura got to have their first date.

Rebecca spent most of the night on the dance floor. Seriously, little Matt Rogers.

Sweetness

Parade

Baby Laura! I love this picture because it reminds me so much of Rebecca as a baby.

We had a big weekend. On Saturday we went to the Tanglewood festival of lights. It was neat but I think Rebecca was just a little too young for it. About half way through she said, "Let's watch Handy Mandy."

On Sunday we went to Elkin for the Christmas parade. It was so much fun!!

Rebecca is so cute and we were at the start of the parade route and she stood out in her leopard print dress (she loves to wear dresses and calls them ballerina shirts) so we got tons of candy. I mean tons. The diaper bag was overflowing.

Dancing to the marching band!

And a tractor and car that could drive on two wheels. Sometimes I just really love Elkin.

Baby Riley. We got to visit a little while before the parade. She is so adorable!!

Fake sleeping

Fake sleeping

Fake sleeping

Baby Laura!

O Christmas Tree

Rebecca! Deciding what treasures to put in her backpack. Just like Dora.

This past weekend we went to reality tv show super star Jarrett Joyce's tree lot to pick out our Christmas tree.

Everybody say cheese as hard as you can! As you may be able to tell by our outfits, this weekend was also the SEC championship game. Alabama won- Roll Tide!

Ta-da! I have really enjoyed our tree this year. I guess it's been a while since we've had a real one. It's so pretty and smells so good.

Baby Laura! Such a big girl. She's already starting to suck on her fingers and pull things into her mouth. She is so smiley. I'll read Goodnight Moon to her before she goes to bed and she gets a huge grin on her face whenever she sees the cover.

Rebecca and Oma! Oma, Ira and Marina came to see us on Tuesday. Ira and Marina made the most delicious vegan meal for us. So good!

Dance party!