And Mom and Dad Can Hardly Wait for School to Start Again

No, we do not feel this way (yet... we have finished day 4 of the break!), I am sticking with my Christmas song quote/title theme for blog posts no matter what!

Both of the kids' schools have such fun holiday events! We didn't have any formal Christmas programs to attend this year, but the theme days and parties were super fun! Annie's school had 2 pajama days during December and the kids and teachers were all so precious and comfy! They had silly glasses for the kids to wear and Annie's teachers were amazed that she was so amused by trying everything on.



1st grade at GPE had a Grinch theme for their Christmas party. I was somehow tasked with making Grinch cupcakes. They sure were cute at home:



They did not survive the drive to school. I felt like I belonged on a pinterest-fail site! But the kids didn't seem to mind and they enjoyed ALL of the sugary treats at their party, including the M&Ms that were their bingo pieces for Grinch bingo!



Since both Cade and Annie are incredibly blessed with fun friends and loving teachers at their schools, we really enjoy putting together little gifts for everyone at Christmas. I definitely should not have put EVERYTHING together in one night, so I was especially thankful for help from Chance and Cade! Chance wrapped all of the paper around the juice boxes, and Cade divided the M&Ms for his friends and sorted the snacks for his teachers. In the end, we had 12 snowman juice boxes, 21 bags of elf poop, 17 teacher/staff gifts, and 1 exhausted Mama. Smiles from everyone the next day made the short night completely worth it!



This doesn't exactly fit with this post, but I wanted to also share some work fun from TAMU. I went to a conference in Galveston a few weeks ago to give 2 presentations, and my friend Beth and I really enjoyed our "vacation" together! We were unexpectedly upgraded to an executive suite at our hotel and had fun at the conference.



I also hosted our women's Christmas party last week! This gathering has been taking place since the 70s, and it is always tons of noisy fun! We had 20 ladies at our house, and Chance even braved the estrogen to take our group picture. Several of the women in attendance were our professors in college!