Fireman Santa

Santa on the fire truck

Every Year Santa comes to our neighborhood on the Irmo fire truck. They turn on all the lights and play Christmas music and Santa throws candy out for the kids. They love it and Whit was so excited and waved to Santa as he drove by. Now he will probably expect to see Santa on all passing fire trucks.

Tea Party

Hadley

Carson

Reese

Girls with Gram

The girls went to a Grandmother/Grand-daughter Tea party on Sunday. They got to get all dressed up and go do crafts and eat lots of goodies.

Little Gray Donkey

Here is one of Brett's songs from his Christmas program at school. He did a good job singing and doing all the hand motions unlike Whit who just yelled NO!!! the whole time his class was singing!

Advent Ice cream cone trees

Another easy advent activity! We made Christmas trees out of ice cream cones. As soon as the kids were done making them they all asked if they could eat them but I convinced them to keep them around for a few days as decoration and they agreed.

Basketball vs. Orangeburg

Griffin had a game vs. Orangeburg-Wilkinson on Thursday. The team is looking better each time out and seems to be working together more as a team. Griffin had a great all-around game with lots of hustle on defense- several steals and a taken charge plus he scored 16 points to help the team get another win. He has a break from games until after Christmas but they have lots of practices scheduled so they don't get too rusty over the holidays.

DINOSAURS!

Ride'em Cowboy

Oh my! Dinosaurs!

Today was Brett's "real" birthday (finally!) so we went with Gram to the State Museum to see the Dinosaur exhibit. The boys seemed to enjoy the dinosaurs despite their movement and roaring (the dinosaurs, not the boys). We enjoyed the rest of the museum as well- a good way to spend the morning.

Brett @ School

the birthday boy

Mom & Brett @ school

At pre-school Brett got to bring in a special birthday snack. We brought mini funfetti (I love that stuff-easy and cute) cupcakes. They were a hit with all his classmates.