One nice tradition is going to "Christmas at Grace", a Christmas party at our church. First we sang carols, then had dinner.
Then we listened to a story and visited with Santa!
We also had to make some reindeer food for sprinkling on the lawn on Christmas Eve!
Adding ingredients
Shaking it up!
Tada!
Of course there was Christmas fun at school too! They had their Christmas concert at the Simpsonville Performing Arts Center. It was a big deal, with many special practices ahead of time, especially for Grady, who also played guitar in the show. Poor Anson was very excited about the show but then seemed a bit run down that night. Turns out he had an ear infection, which we discovered the next day. It wasn't too big of a deal, but it explains why he looks a little lackluster.
Anson is front and center in a red and black sweater
Grady was on the end so he could access his guitar when he needed it
Blurry, but he is the middle one of the 3 guitar players
This is a video of Anson
They also had Christmas parties on the last day of school. I am the room mother for Grady's class, so I also baked lots of cookies (with Anson's help) and volunteered to help at the party. It was a lot of fun! They did all sorts of crafts and each got to decorate one of my sugar cookies. They we took home the extras!
Here are the kids decorating the leftovers at home
The next day Anson helped to make "Christmas tree play dough" from scratch. It smelled Christmasy and had sequins that looked like ornaments. They made trees!
The next day was Camille's birthday, so we took a pause from Christmas celebrations!
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