Christmas Breakfast and Peyton's Church Christmas Program

Busy week.  On Monday, my boss, Sheila Hicks, and I entertained our staff at my house for a Christmas breakfast.  We had blueberry french toast, egg casserole, cinnamon rolls, fruit, muffins, cookies, etc. - played games and sang Christmas carols around the piano.  We had a great time.

Leonard - Murray's cousin from St. Louis - arrived in Clinton on Wednesday evening for a two-week stay while his family vacations in San Juan, Puerto Rico and a cruise.  Tom brought him over and had a quick sandwich with Grandma before returning back home.  Lenny and Murray have been having fun at Grandma's.   We made party mix and peanut butter fudge this week.

Saturday, Ron and I headed to Kansas City for a little shopping before going to visit the Todds.  We stayed with Peyton and Garrison while Amanda and Chad went on a well-deserved date night - dinner at the Gaslight Grill.  Peyton and I cut out snowflakes - she was very proud to display them on the back glass door.  We also fixed whole wheat tortilla snowflakes - dusted with powdered sugar at the end.  They were tasty and pretty.  We also made for the second year in a row a rice krispy wreath, decorated with m & m;'s. Not sure where my pictures are of those craft projects.  We had a great evening and spent the night so we could attend Peyton's church Christmas program at Prince of Peace on Sunday morning.

Chad, Garrison, Ron and I attended mass while Peyton and Amanda went to one final rehearsal.  Peyton did an awesome job singing and doing the motions to the songs.  We had front row seats and could hear her very clearly - she knew all the words, smiled and did a fantastic job!!!!  We were so proud - Grandpa, Grammy and Mommy were all crying!  Happy tears.

We stopped at a few shopping destinations on the way home, had Sonic for lunch and are now visiting Mom for a few hours.

Despite a nasty cold, it's been a memorable week.

Additional Pictures - see post previous.

Christmas Program and POP Moms Party

I'm not sure what happened to the other two pictures, but I hope they are still there somewhere.  We had a fun-filled weekend.  Ron and I headed to KC around noon on Friday, stopping a few places to shop.  Then, we went to school to pick up the kids.  They were both so excited to see us!  We took them home and visited with Amanda and Chad for a while, then Amanda, Peyton and I went to Costco to get pizza (quite yummy I might add).  While we were gone, the Todds arrived to join us before we all (except Chad who has strep), traveled to the high school literally 3 blocks from their house, for the All Around Child annual Christmas program.  Peyton and Garrison both did fantastic performing their numbers with their classmates - we enjoyed it very, very much.  After we took Amanda and the kids home, we drove back to Clinton.  

Saturday morning, we headed back to Overland Park to spend part of the day staying with the kids while Amanda worked at her POP Moms Christmas party, then we took the kids to the party to join her.  Peyton loved the bouncie house the best - Garrison played "soccer" and both enjoyed getting balloon creations from the clowns.  We had hamburgers and hotdogs for lunch there, then Peyton surprised us all and sat on Santa's lap - the first time ever - and even told him what she wanted for Christmas.  Go Peyton!!!!!  It was a fun time - we were sorry that Chad was not well enough to attend, but we felt blessed to be there.  

We picked up Mom after returning to Clintot - she helped me get ready for the party I am having on Monday for my staff, then we took her riding around to look at the lights. 

Playing the organ at church tomorrow - both services - then to the Vansant-Mills Memorial Service and staff dinner.

Good weekend.