Elijah's Christmas Performance....or lack there of....

Elijah - Center with Blue Jacket

...Well, really. You know Elijah. This kid is not a ham. He is not "the center of attention" and he will not do anything unless he decides its ok.  HELLO! He's his father's son!
So we embarked on a journey to Elijah's Christmas performance with medium hopes that he would indeed sing the songs and do the hand motions.  My guess - he may have done it if we weren't there....but that is a "may have". 

Well our little wall flower was practically that.  I had to threaten to leave to even get him on stage....where he sat the whole time- no signing.  Oh well.  the majority of the rest of the class sounded good and looked cute.  Hope you enjoy these little voices and our wall flower.

The reindeer ears lasted 30 seconds.

Wall Flowers

E&L's Christmas Tree

I bought the boys a little cChristmastree at Trader Joe's for their room, and went down to Michael's and picked up some....sorry ELIJAH picked out some cute little ornaments for it.  Last night we decorated it.  Lucas was feeling particularly camera shy, so Elijah showed off their piece of work.

-K

Christmas on First Street 2014

The best picture I got of all the kids (less Colette)

Well yes, your eyes are not fooling you, there was no thanksgiving post. Why? Because I was sick as a dog and Luke was too, so we stayed home while Aaron and Elijah got to hang out at Aaron's parents house and eat warm yummy thanksgiving food. No, I'm not bitter or jealous at all. I got a plate of food after all...albeit sans gravy (had to make my own mediocre, at best) and sans any tastey deserts, like, mmmmmmmmmmmm, pumpkin pie. ugh. sucky.
Anyway, It's been awhile, yes I know. Well, truthfully, I have been busy.  Same old story I know, but hey, give a working mom a break! sheesh.  Anyway, I had another successful year with our Operation Christmas Child drive, that I head up, lead, and do basically all by myself....mostly because I am TERRIBLE at asking for help. But anway, that kept me busy and the kids and yada, yada, yada.

Terrible Picture,but Elijah and his best bud Jackson

So now we are almost at Christmas, dear god where did the year go?!   With it almost being Christmas that means that it is time for the yearly "CHRISTMAS ON FIRST STREET" hooray! This is one of my favorite things to do this time of year.  Bundle up, pray the rain will hold off just long enough for us to get the kids down to the end of main street, watch the tree light up and boom back to the car. Last year we got rained on, this year they swore we would and we felt three drops total- SO AWESOME.  That is good news for you too! You know why? Because the longer we got to stay out, the more pictures and video you get to watch/look at! Woo Hoo!
I know you are anxiously awaiting all the above mentioned media, so without further ado....:

Lucas and McKenna Dancing their hearts out.

Erin Nate and McKenna - So cute!

And now, we would like to present you with......the videos!