December Daily-day 25 part 2

Christmas night we went to Mother and Daddy's. Mother had a wonderful super ready for us. We all really stuffed ourselves. Then it was time for gifts.

The Smith Family

Don't ya just love the green and pink apron. I had Mother to make it as part of Katie Lee's gifts from Santa, but Santa forgot about it until it was time to go to. Katie Lee loved it so much that she wore it most of the night.
Ready for Grammie's cooking.
She got an umbrella from Grammie and Poppie.
and a Mickey Mouse clubhouse
an art easel
and a Chick gift card along with many other things. Katie Lee was super excited about this and said "charge it and give me some food please."
Aunt Kitty and Uncle Wez gave her a tea cart with a tea set and a Snow White broom and dustpan which she has been very helpful with.

She sat with Wez for the longest letting him tell her stories about Boss, his dog.
It was truly a wonderful Christmas with our family, lots of delicious food and great gifts. We are so blessed to have our family.

December Daily--Dec. 25th---Part 1 Christmas Morning

Thursday night before bed, we read Twas the Night Before Christmas. She enjoyed it so much; we read it twice. I told her that in the morning would be Christmas and she would have gifts under the tree when she woke up. Friday morning when we got up, Santa had arrived at our house the night before. This was so much fun this year because Katie Lee was really old enough to get into the whole thing. All season long, she has said that she wanted CLOTHES for Christmas. A girl after my own heart! Well, we also got her a play kitchen along with a few other toys and some new play clothes.The kitchen was the only unwrapped gift so it was the first thing she saw. She played with it for a long time before noticing other gifts around her. It was so funny watching her unwrap one, play with it, then back to play with the kitchen before opening another gift. She soon figured out there was better things than clothes for Christmas even though she was excited over them too.







This was a great Christmas day. We had no placed to go until that night, so we played in our PJ's all day long. I must have been pretty good this year too. I got a pretty pair of earrings and a slide for my bracelet. Donnie got a tree stand which he already killed a deer out off, cover-alls, and some clothes.

December Daily -Day 24

Parties Parties Parties

Katie Lee and I have been super busy since I got out of school. On Wednesday we and Grammie went to Storytime for the Christmas party. Of course, it was lots of fun.

Getting ready to sing...
Enjoying the party.
Getting all of the goodies..
Katie Lee and James checking out their gifts. I am glad that the two of them are getting to go to this each week.
After this party, Katie Lee and I went to our favorite eating spot to play with a couple of her besties, and I enjoyed catching up with mine, too.

Christmas Eve Morning

Thursday morning, Christmas Eve, we headed to Betty's for breakfast. Sadly Donnie was still playing Christmas Elf at UPS so he did not get to go. After a wonderful breakfast, it was time for gifts for the kiddos and Dirty Christmas for the big ones.
I got a super cute picture frame as my gift but forgot to take a picture.

Christmas Eve Night

On Christmas Eve Night, we headed to Aunt Mary's for the McNatt Christmas. Delicious food as usual. My aunts can really cook. I did a pitiful job of taking pictures that night. Katie Lee really had fun playing with all of her cousins that were there.

December Daily--Day 23

Last night several of the girls that I work with got together for dinner and Dirty Christmas at Nicole's home. We also decided to surprise Audrey for her birthday. It is on the 26th and she says that it is always forgotten. To top it off she is turning the big 4-0 this year so we wanted to be sure not to miss it.


On a side note, every year the 4th grade team always gets each other a little something for Christmas. This year I gave these.(pictured below) I have seen several really cute ones monogrammed, but I no machine. At a craft show a couple years ago, I saw travel mugs made with paper. That I can do!! I found the mugs at the Dollar Tree, got cute scrapbook paper and vinyl paper from Hobby Lobby. I cut the letters out at school with the Die cut. I also had the paper laminated so that it would be sturdier. I wrapped them up with a couple of packets of favored coffee, and I thought that they turned out very cute.

December Daily--Day 22

Sunday night, we had our traditional pizza party at Betty and Steve's.

All of the little ones....
Making cookies
trying them out....
playing a tune

Day 21--Smith Christmas

Saturday night we had our Christmas on Daddy's side of the family. It was at Judy's house and the food was so good.

Once, Katie Lee figured out what opening Christmas presents meant she was so excited.
Playing tea party with Poppie.
Checking out Grammie holding baby Noah and trying to convince her to give him back and hold her.

The two of us.... pretty sweet looking couple.. HAHA
The great-cousins.

Future bloggers.

Daddy and his brothers Freddy and Charles.
The family. Judy, Brenda, Freddy, Charles, and Daddy

December Daily--Day 20

Friday night we celebrated Lillian's 3rd birthday. Katie Lee just adores her and was so excited to go to her princess party. On the way, she told me that she was going to become Cinderella and Lillian could be a mermaid. When the party started and the centers of beauty began, Katie Lee wanted no part. She did finally get her finger nails painted. Sadly, my battery in my camera died so I have only a couple of pictures.

December Daily--Day 19

Class parties and simple machines.

Yesterday was the Christmas party for my class. Unfortunately it was not our last day of school like most over systems around here. Check out the my class blog at www.helumsheadlines.blogspot.com for more pictures of my kids. They had a great time and I got several wonderful gifts. We have to follow the "sugar free" guidelines at our schools. My class could vote for either a pizza party, chicken nuggets, or Subway. They picked Subway and asked for chips, fruit, and vegetables. They really ate and ate!
Here are a few pictures of the Christmas crafts made around our room. We have a few more fun crafts to make in the next two days, too.

Outside of my class are math snowmen. They had to work out a word problem with multiplication on the belly.
They made the reindeer with their feet and hands and then wrote a help wanted ad for one of Santa's elf.
We are working really hard at becoming better writers, so here is our color wall. Helps make writing paint a better picture.
Our tree. They wanted to make chains to count down until Christmas which is a little kindergarten-ish, so ours turned into a multiplication chain which they loved. Our candies are descriptive words to describe it.
We are also learning about simple machines so as an at home project they had to build one. They also had to show how it works and explain the parts. They LOVED it!! I was very proud of all of their hard work.