These pictures are from 11/26/12 to 12/2/12 .

With my work, Thanksgiving, Christmas, the girls’ birthdays, two weeks of the FLU in our house, and everything else we had going on, you can imagine the chaos that was taking place around this time.  I decided to slow our home school activities (start our Christmas break early) so we could not go completely crazy.

Nutella/Strawberry Sandwiches

We transformed our “fall tree” to a “Christmas tree”!

Rea’s self portrait after applying her own make up!  Pretty good, I think!

Driving around town to see Christmas lights with Papaw & Gran.

Max in time out—- a rather common sight these days.

The day our elves came!

Pictured left to right-

Christmas Tree (Emmy’s elf- she applied some mascara to her face last year)

Mr. Elf (Max’s elf)

Snowflake (Rea’s elf)

This day, Daddy was in charge of the elves’ antics.  I’m not sure it was a success.

Rea and I shared a hot chocolate from the concession stand while she was on her break at Thursday Connection.

Rea’s art from the week- “Angels”

Supper at Gran’s before church on Friday night.

Of course, Emmy wanted a Hello Kitty birthday party!

Here’s some shots that I took of her to get a picture for her invitation. (wearing Polkadaisies!)

On Emmy’s birthday, the elves had decorated accordingly!  Unfortunately, I came down with the flu just in time for her birthday.  I was the sickest that I can remember being in a very long time.  I wanted to just re-schedule the party, but who could rain on Emmy’s Hello Kitty parade!?!  Not me.  I pulled myself together the best I could and made it happen!  That’s a mom for ya!

I just thought that Sponge Bob balloon at Food City was expensive.  This one, however, was worth every penny.

Max in time-out at the party.  Poor guy.

Going through all her gifts-

Daniel took the kids to the Christmas Parade in town.  (I was home in bed!)

The girls spent the night at Gran’s and Papaw’s so mommy could rest.  Their elves followed them there and tried to use Emmy’s new Easy Bake Oven!

Maxie man stayed with me.  He never left my side while I was sick.  He loves me so much!

Emmy with her triplets.  She named them Emily, Alise, and Whiney Butt.  She said that one just won’t stop crying.

Here’s a video of Max trying to get the star off the top of our Christmas tree.  He would get a running start and stop and jump as high as he could like was actually going to reach the star.  He said, “OH MAN!” like was disappointed he didn’t reach it.  I got him to do it again for video, thankfully.  It was pretty funny to watch.  He would say, “Get dat star back!”  Reagan just watched him and cackled!  She then followed to say that our family is so funny that people would probably like to watch us on tv.

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Here’s a clip from Emmy’s 4th Birthday Party!