'Tis the Season

We are barely into December but we are well into the Christmas season at our house!  Here are some of the things we have been up to...

can you believe Santa was at the girls' dance school??!

Quinn has been asking all about Santa's reindeer this year, so when I heard they were making an appearance at a local toy store, we just HAD to go and check them out. Quinn, of course, used the opportunity to get a few extra words in with the "big guy"  

her first candy cane of the year, she was thrilled ;)

yet another event for our social butterfly!  Here we are getting ready for our date to see the Nutcracker.  KK is still too young to sit through the whole thing, but she had a wonderful morning at home with Daddy

I just love taking Quinn to see this show.  It is so sweet to see her eyes light up with amazement and awe of the performers... these are girls that she sees at dance school every week but on show day, they are superstars to Quinn

Miss Mary (Quinn's dance teacher) is in the Nutcracker, so she met some of the younger girls before the show & gave them a very special backstage tour & even introduced them to some of the dancers!

Quinn was thrilled when we ran into Ellie (they danced together for two years and are in different classes this year)

her Nutcracker for this year

here we are at Tara's house for our annual "friends Christmas".. actually in Tara's neighbor's back yard, but they didn't seem to mind ;) We hadn't had a family picture in a while, so Tara graciously took a few for us

Nana sent us a care package with more sprinkles than we knew what to do with... Quinn decided she wanted her two best friends from her class to come over and help us with some cookie decorating so that is just what we did!

of course Kathryn got in on the fun too!

here Quinn is showing Abby & Sage her video email from Santa, who knew he was so into technology?!

and here we are at the brunch with Santa at the girls' school

there's just something about that Riley ;)

with Ellie & Riley

more Santa time

waffle house sponsored, so we couldn't leave without the hats

so merry early Christmas!! And we have lots more to come... later this week we are headed off to Alabama to celebrate The Driskell Family Christmas and when we return, we have lots of special visitors headed our way!!