At the end of November I was invited to a SS get together for some ladies here in Vilonia where an interior decorator came in and showed us how to use wire mesh while decorating for Christmas--I ended up really liking my tree and mantle this, but I stared at my tree for a good 3 or 4 days trying to figure out where to begin and how to start! :) In the end, I'm a huge fan of wire mesh, if you haven't tried it, buy some next year!!! Jones' school had a Christmas program that all the grandparents came to town for so they could watch him perform on stage. His class sang 3 songs, quoted Luke 2:7-9 and, said a poem which was super sweet. It was very hard to hear in the gym, and my video camera is broken :( so you only get a few pictures.
Now for the school parties--it was Happy Birthday Jesus for Jones and a Polar Express Party for Laynie. I started my Friday morning by delivering both children to school, rushing home to wrap a few more presents and throw some peanut butter fudge together, grabbed the ice cream for Jones' party and was off to celebrate Jesus' birthday with him! We had pizza, cupcakes and ice cream, played bingo (which Jones won), and then they performed their Christmas program again for the Mommies! Below is just a little bit of their first song. Jones LOVES to sing and perform! :)
After his party we headed to Laynie's school to help Mrs. Dayberry get everything set up for the Polar Express Party--the kids even wore their PJs all day to school!
Whew! What a day we had--and we still had one more stop to go! We ended the day by going to Benton on Friday night and seeing some of my extended family at Aunt Becky's. This year on Friday night the menu was red beans and rice, then we did a little Christmas light looking, & took a tour of my cousin Leslie's new home (which I absolutely LOVED)! 
So that's just a few of the things we did leading up to Christmas break--hopefully I will have a little time to post more about Christmas in the near future! (Near future, that a relative term for me, don't you think? :)
