Crazy Days

We celebrated Caroline's birthday as a family early in the morning (per tradition). We woke up the birthday girl with the happy birthday song then gave her, her presents in bed to open! She got the cutest hat and matching scarf plus a new book. Can not believe my baby is officially six years old. Where has the time gone? The Saturday after Thanksgiving we had a Christmas Party at our house. There are no pictures of that, but before everyone showed up I took pics of my kids:) Eli and Elizabeth have cute "my first Christmas" hats and Caroline borrowed the hat that goes on our wooden bear (hence hers is a bit small).

The week after Thanksgiving Greg and I were at church every night. Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday night we had practice for our Christmas production. Wednesday night was the dress rehearsal. Then we had performances: Thursday and Friday night, Saturday afternoon and Saturday night, and lastly on Sunday night. We were pretty exhausted by the end of the week, but enjoyed being a part of such a great Christmas performance. It took place in 1905. Caroline loved the dress I wore and thought it was mine to keep. I had to explain that I rented it and had to return it to the store.

Below is a picture of Caroline in her "pretty dress" also. She loves to match and loves dresses so any chance to put on a pretty dress is taken by her.

My handsome hubby and me with a 1905 outfits on... Greg did shave after the performance, but he did not have to wear as much make up as the other guys since he had facial hair!

Some of the cast waiting for showtime! We have a great church body who provides us with lots of food and desserts to keep us fueled during the performances.

That was our busy few weeks. We are hopefully slowing down a little before Christmas comes. Caroline had a tough time with us gone every night. We know this because she woke us up in the middle of the night every night we did not put her to bed. One night Caroline came to the performance so she did not wake us up that night since we put her to bed. We are now getting back on schedule and getting to sleep more. I think yall are all caught up for a while. Oh, Caroline did get to have a fun day at school today... it was Polar Express day... she got to wear PJ's to school and then had the Polar Express story read to all the kindergartners. They even had hot chocolate and cookies during that part in the story. The only problem was that Caroline was sick. I went up to school to help serve the hot chocolate and ended up taking Caroline home soon after they reached the North Pole (in the story of course). She had a temp of 101.4. Took her to the doctor and she has some kind of virus (no strep, no ear infection, no flu) that causes fever, stomach ache, sore throats. Fun times at the Jennings house again!