Our Little Honey Buns: School is Out. I Can Finally Breathe...Maybe.

Dear Kiddos,

The past 2 weeks have been just a slew of events one after another. While it makes for busy times, I can't really complain because they have all been awesome things.

Let's kick off with Hannah given the opportunity to dance at the Spurs' halftime show with her dance group. The whole experience was exciting. The vastness of the arena, the basketball game and then there's the dancing on the floor.

The following weekend, Hannah had another recital, this time you performed your hip hop routine.

Somewhere between the 2 dance recitals, you two were a part of a church play. Nathan had a speaking part as Sheep #2 and Hannah, along with all the other kindergartners, you were one of the angels.

Hailey, we still go to gymnastics once a week. You are slowly getting the hang of jumping on a trampoline.

You still refuse to bear crawl across the parallel bars and insist on simply using the bars as a handle rail.

The weather has been nice, so one afternoon, we all went to the school to practice some skating. I had just gotten new skates and you two wanted to join me to practice.

This past Wednesday, Hannah, you and I had a date to go see a friend perform in the Nutcracker. You being my foodie child, I decided to extend our date by going out to eat first. You made an excellent choice by selecting Poke.

I accidentally left my phone in the car during the show, so I tried to snap a quick picture after we got home. You were sleepy because it was 2 hours past your bedtime and you had fallen asleep in the car.

I've also been volunteering at school quite a bit lately. Last week I volunteered the entire morning to help out with Kinder's holidays around the world event. On Tuesday, I went to Hannah's class to help out with gingerbread house building and on Thursday, you both had your class parties at school.

Hailey's been loving raspberries and blackberries. I kind of have a hunch that grapes just don't sit well with Hailey because the next day after eating a handful of grapes, you kept complaining about wanting to go "poo poo potty."

Thursday evening, you two pretty much made dinner for the family. Ya'll helped cut the chicken, fill and wrap the chicken pockets. I simply seasoned and made he chicken filling. It was quite delicious.

Today we had a gingerbread decorating party at our house, so yesterday, we made gingerbread houses. I had each of you draw what you wanted your house to look like and I did my best to create a pattern for the cookies.

The completed basic house.

As people began to arrive with sweet treats, we loaded up the candy table. As you can see, there's a plethora of candies.

You each grabbed a plate of candy and went to town decorating.

Even Hailey you decorated your own house, however, something tells me that you had a lot of candy today.

The finished products

After everything was said and done, I caught these 2 sneaks picking out candy from the buffet table.

And we couldn't have ended the event without getting a good group photo of the kids. We started taking pictures 7 years ago and we plan on keeping the tradition alive.