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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Kohr Christmas 2013

Kohr Christmas was held the Saturday before Christmas this year.  We had a special visit from Santa for the first time. 

These kids can play for hours together!

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It's always fun to try to get a picture of all of them! (We missed Brooklyn this year!)

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He's here!

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The kids have spotted him!

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Paige was very brave and went right up to Santa.

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Santa brought all of the kids pajamas!

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Ellie wasn't so sure about him!

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And some pics with Santa before he left!

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Yoga time I guess!

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And then the chaos of present opening began! Always a fun day every year!

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All ready for his Christmas party at school.

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Making gingerbread houses!

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Pin the bow on the present!

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His adorable class!

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Snow!

After Breakfast with Santa and some cookie baking, it was time to shovel play in the snow!!! 

This was our first real snowfall of the winter (which is hard to believe right now considering it hasn't stopped snowing in over a month!)

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Snowball fight!

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I think it is safe to say the kids love the snow!!!

Christmas Program 2013

Luke's Christmas Program was on December 15th and it was as cute as last year!

Luke got to lead his class into the church!

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He spotted us :)

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Luke is on the top right!

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They had jingle bells for the song "Jingle Bells" (of course!) and apparently Luke's got caught in the girl's hair in front of him. She has super long blonde hair and we have been told that Luke likes to play with it in school (and she doesnt' mind). When the teacher's went to collect the bells after that song, poor Ava had to have the jingles in her hair until the program was over. Oops!

After the program, there is a reception with pizza, cookies, and drinks in the church hall. They also have a kids' DJ and Santa!

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All of the grandparents were there!

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Paige couldn't help but be on the dance floor!

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Breakfast with Santa & Cookies

Unfortunately we missed making reservations for Breakfast with Santa where we have gone the past couple of years so we had to change it up this year. It definitely wasn't as nice and cozy, but I suppose it worked!

Paige got very nervous as soon as we walked in and she saw Santa. She kept shaking her head and saying no. Luke of course hopped right up on his lap!

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He told Santa he wanted some racetrack that neither Wally or I had a clue about. We both looked at each other and sort of panicked.

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When we got home and figured out what he was talking about we discovered thatwhat he wanted was over $100 and for 8 year old and up. He apparently saw it on a commercial. He was a little upset and asked why the commercial didn't tell you how old you have to be....ha!

Anyways... We were seated right in front of Santa. You can tell that Paige was not too thrilled!

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Paige was checking out the other kids getting their pictures taken!

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I finally told Wally let's just do it. Let's just get the picture of Paige. I tried setting her on his lap, but she REFUSED! So I told her I would just hold her and she was sort of ok with that! Then as I was walking away, I just set her on his lap and wouldn't you know - she smiled! It was a Christmas miracle!

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Paige even told Santa what she wanted for Christmas - gymnastics Dora. However, she then stood in front of Santa waiting for her Dora. She didn't quite get that she wasn't getting it in that moment and that made her angry - ha!

There was some face painting and coloring going on there too!

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We took some pictures before we left and headed home in the snowstorm that had started!

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When we got home, it was cookie baking time!

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December 11, 2013

Luke's actual birthday fell on a Wednesday so it was a pretty typical day for us.

He did get to open his birthday present from us that morning which he was pretty excited about - a Nintendo DS.

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Then it was off to school for him and work for me. I treated him to a lunch of his choice when I picked him up and he chose Subway of all places - ha! After lunch, it was Punky's for him and back to work for me.

That night we celebrated with dinner at home and a birthday cupcake!

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Can't believe my baby boy is 5!