The Christmas season is in full swing in the Bowers household. We have already made some precious memories so far this month. From getting our decorations up to Nutcracker performances, to Christmas pageants, it has been a wonderful holiday season. Now, school is out and we have some folks that are anxiously awaiting Santa's arrival. Hopefully, he will bring good loot this year?! The pictures are in no particular order...again:(
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| Santa came to our neighborhood for a visit. They weren't so sure about him at first. |
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| They all got their requests in. Hopefully, Santa can deliver. |
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| Ellie has gotten really tall all of a sudden, I'm not thinking she will max out at 5'2" like her pediatrician predicted at her 2 y.o. visit in Birmingham. |
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| Kissing on baby brother |
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| They all got to ride the train. This was the best picture I could get. |
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| This was the day after Thanksgiving. We went to Hambrick's Tree Farm and picked this beauty out. |
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| Ellie and Freddie were pooped after decorating all day |
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| This was our house decorations prior to Worth adding music to the get up. |
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| It hasn't been too cold here. Worth and I had been dying to get a fire going with all the Christmas lights, etc. We had an opportunity one night when the temps dropped into the low 60s. |
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| Ellie was a toy doll in the Nutcracker this year. |
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| Some of the other toy dolls and Emma photo bombing. This is one of my favorite costumes in the Nutcracker performance. The all really looked like dolls. |
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| Mack cheesing |
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| I don't do selfies, but couldn't find anyone over 8 to take our picture backstage. |
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| Ellie and her friend Taylor passed their time backstage reading books. |
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| Cast 1 toy dolls of the 2016 Nutcracker. I was backstage with them one night and realized why God didn't make me a 2nd grade teacher. In all honesty, they were all pretty good, with only a couple of exceptions. Those exceptions, however, made me have to use my mean mommy voice. I don't ever pull that voice out to other peoples' kids, so you know it had to be bad. |
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| They all pulled it together onstage though, They may be wild, but they were all awesome performers. |
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| Flowers E.W. bought Ellie the ballerina |
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| We had an incident with Mack touching Red, our elf. |
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| Ellie's Christmas list this year. Mind you, when she sat on Santa's lap this morning, she had all new ideas of what she wanted. |
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| There were several church choir performances. The 2nd-5th graders did great. I was busy wrestling Mack in the pew at this particular concert because the nursery was not provided. I quickly snapped this as I held/sweated/sat on Mack. Ellie just happened to glance in our direction. And yes, Worth was on call. |
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| Mack was a twinkle star in his preschool Christmas pageant. |
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| He actually stood and sang just like he was supposed to. |
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| Sitting patiently on stage |
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| It amazed us how much Mack looked like Ellie with the halo holding his hair out of the way. |
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| His cute class of 2-3 year olds. |
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| Hard to get a good group shot of these movers and shakers |
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| Seeing Santa! |
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| Emma in her children's choir performance. She decided to fall on her scooter and bust her lip, nose, and both knees prior to this concert. I had no idea she was going to be placed front and center. I'm just glad no one called defacs on me. |
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| Ellie was way up in the choir loft, but they did an astounding job! Definitely puts you in a Christmas spirit to hear children singing those wonderful hymns. |
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| Another shot of the twinkle stars |
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| "Twinkle, Twinkle, Christmas Star!" |
