santa brunch & caroling

i matched my girlies this year @ the redstone santa brunch :)  gotta love jcrew/crewcuts!  cheesy but soooo fabulous at the same time!!

they all loved santa...i have got to upload the video of emery talking (yelling) to santa...hilarious

emery on a reindeer.  barefoot.

 just eating the icing

beckett's mess of a cookie

 EC and her besties

last weekend the kids went caroling with 28 of their best friends!  fun, right?  debra had everyone over for s'mores, games, pajama exchange, pizza, etc.  then all 31 kids piled into a trailer filled with hay and caroled all around fall creek.  SO STINKIN' CUTE!!

 thanks to bebe and bo for brunch and debra for the FUN caroling!

this is one of the many reasons they prefer bebe's house

pls look @ the volume of presents....and she isn't finished.  there are sooo many...the picture doesn't do it justice...crazy!!!!!!!  piles and piles...stuffed back to the wall...

i can't blame them :) at the beginning of december, she takes them to the store and lets each one pick their favorite wrapping paper...and all of their presents are wrapped in that paper...no need for name tags!

daisies!

 ellis is a daisy!  meaning a first grade girl scout :)  we have a great group of girls and moms...should be a fun year.  when i showed her the uniform she said "sweet...so i am on the blue team?"  i explained that it wasn't a team kind of thing :)  then she put the uniform on.  she looked in the mirror and said "mom, i look like a worker at walmart with this jacket on".  i about died.  because she is SO right....lol lol lol. i can't take them seriously now....

a very pretty christmas

for the last few christmases, i went crazy with color and candy decor...super fun, super bright...the kids loved it.  this year i decided to change it up a bit.  all neutral...gasp!   i LOVE it.  my kids do not.  well, really ellis.  she was very confused over the burlap around the base of the tree and basically disgusted by the burlap ribbon on the tree...calling it "bird poop".  she then asked where their stockings were.  i told her they had been ordered and were on the way.  i knew what was coming next..."what color is my new stocking?"  burlap.  then came the tears.  oops.

it's pretty right??  and they can go to bebe's for fun, crazy christmas :)