Christmas Update!

As usual, I am feeling a bit behind -- that was my MO for the whole

Christmas season,

so guess I will continue it a while longer!

We had a fabulous birthday celebration for Miss M and Christmas! 

But first, just a couple days before Christmas, our wonderful

neighbors held their annual Santa party!

Last year, their house was being rebuilt due to a fire and

we missed them so much --

it took 9 months to rebuild the inside of their house!!

The main damage was not really due to the fire, but due to the

copious amounts of water used to put out the attic fire.  

I think that was the only year in the past 15 that they

haven't hosted a Santa party

at their home just before Christmas!

Even though, she may be getting a bit too old

for Santa, he talked her into a quick photo!

Please excuse my iPhone photo -- I think I need a new phone

to get better photos, of course!

Mr. Krier (choir director-back right) is amazing and so are all these freshman girls!

More holiday fun -- Maddy's choir group sang at a holiday celebration

at a local hospital.

They did such a great job and were all pretty amazing considering

it was an early Saturday morning choir event!

I think the girls LOVED being able to wear Santa sweaters and jeans!

Do you believe it -- there are 72 freshman girls in choir

(they weren't all at this event,

but that's pretty amazing, isn't it)!

By the way, they sound like angels singing!

Great singing voices!

We hosted Christmas at our house with my sons, daughter-in-law

and four littles!  I even cooked!!!

I made beef stew and biscuits --  it was delish, but

not a fave with the kiddos.

However, I have never professed or sought to be a great cook anyway!

We had so much fun with everyone together --

it was really special!

Somehow we missed out on getting many photos

because we were busy chatting and opening gifts. 

I'm checking with the other

in-house photographer (Maddy) to see if she has any photos,

so may update this later.

But, if I don't get a chance to chat with you all again . . .

Happy New Year friends!