Christmas Programs and Piano Recital

Thanksgiving was great as always.  Lots of yummy food and got to see all of  our family.  After a great meal we carried on the tradition of getting our Christmas Tree.  Of course, my kids are not lazy and are extremely excited...so our tree was up and decorated Thanksgiving night.  Our elves are back...Chipper and Snowflake and they have been very mischevious.  They cut Daddy's hair on their arrival.  No slackers in our elves.  The kids love it.  It is like Christmas morning every day around here.  They have gone deer hunting, built train tracks, taped each other up, had a piano recital and much more. 

Last week was a busy one.  Friday, Gracie had her Christmas Tree Presentation from her Seniors at school.  Her tree is absolutely amazing.  I have never seen anything like it...ever.  It is so pretty that there were people wanted to buy it or just take it home with them.  It is so pretty that I kept it in the living room instead of her room.  Good thing she likes to share!  She has two amazing seniors.  They gave her a stocking with tons of great girl stuff in it and took her to the Japanese restaurant to eat after the program.  She is one lucky girl. 

Saturday...Hayden had an all day Softball tournament.  She played great in all games.  She pitched the third game.  I love watching her play.  She did a fantastic job.  At first she held them to 4 runs until the 3rd inning and then she got upset and walked several....however she came back and struck out the last one.  She struck one girl out all three times she came up to hit!  She was nervous but as always held her own and showed everyone how Hayden can play ball.  Watching her pitch stresses me out but she always proves to me that she can do it.  She is one strong little girl!

Sunday, Gracie had her first piano recital.  I was so sure that she would not perform but she did amazing.  She wore her beautiful dress and played like a star.  I was so very proud of her, she also amazes me at how she can perform in front of a room full of people and do it very well!

Disney World 2015

Disney World was so much fun this year.  All three babies were big enough to ride all the rides.  Gracie is are adventurous girl; she rode everything even Space Mountain.  I am here to tell you that I will probably not ride Space Mountain again.  It was in the complete dark and I had no idea what was coming next!  Gracie was a big girl and didn't get scared!   Heck, I think I was having a panic attack by the time I got off of it!  Hayden did not do Space Mountain because even though she tries to say she loves roller coasters....she DOESN'T!  As you will see in the pictures later...she looks completely sick and terrified in most of them.  Colton was about an inch too short for the Space Mountain but I don't think he is ready for that quite yet. 

Mimi and Pop rode most rides with us this year, which made for three happy kids.  Aunt Kim took turns with all three at different rides to be fair across the board.  Mark and I just took who we got...haha...they love to ride with Kim.  I think it was planned pretty well...we had some fast passes each day and we spent most of the day riding rides instead of standing in long lines to see characters.  Guess my babies are over that part of it.  We went to many shows in Hollywood Studios.  The Frozen show was amazing and it was a sing along...and who doesn't know all the words to Frozen songs???  We saw an Ariel show and it was neat because all puppets and pretty interesting to Colton.  Then we saw Fantasmic, which is a fire work show for Hollywood Studios and it was awesome.  It is like movie screens in the water.  At the end they had a fire around it while shooting all the fireworks.

The Animal Kingdom was fun too but I think we were all starting to show how tired we were.  We spent about half the day there and rode several rides.  The water ride was lots of fun but very short.  We went back to the hotel and the kids went swimming.  After some swimming we went out for a great dinner.  Then we headed back to the Magic Kingdom to watch the fireworks there.  They were good but not as good as they were for Christmas.  It was such a wonderful and time.  I hope my three babies know how lucky they are!