The girls had a wonderful Christmas! I loved watching them get excited about everything they received! Their favorite gifts came from Santa: Dreamlights and Disney stuffed animals.
Santa also brought Jillian a bike and Olivia a Lego table. These were second string to the Dreamlights haha.
Olivia was super cute when emptying her stocking. She kept repeating, “I got everything!” hahaha. So Cute!!
One of my favorite parents from my classroom gave me an adorable cupcake set from Williams-Sonoma. The girls and I spent Christmas Eve decorating cupcakes 🙂
Living near the beach makes me a bit spoiled when it comes to weather. Haha I was shocked this morning when I walked out to find ice on my car! I can’t even imagine having to deal with snow in the morning while trying to get to work! I am very thankful for where I live!!!
Every year we have a Gingerbread House party. We invite our close friends to decorate Gingerbread Houses using milk cartons and graham crackers. Jillian was excited to invite her friends from school. She talked about the party all week long.
She enjoyed seeing everyone’s houses 🙂
This was mine.
Here is Jillian’s. 
Here is Olivia’s
I had been a bit stressed at work lately. I was dealing with issues that come along with working in elementary school in a high socio-economic area… a little bit of crazy. Adrian sent flowers to my work. I was so touched that he thought of something so nice to cheer me up! Adrian never sends flowers, so this was a fabulous treat for me!!
Silly Sparkle! She decided to climb up the lamp 🙂
Sparkle came back today with some Christmas decorations. Jillian got a snowman to decorate and Olivia got a gingerbread man.
Our Christmas Elf arrived today from the North Pole! She brought us her story as well. The girls were a little clueless at first, Adrian and I had to guide them to find her. After reading the book, the girls chose to name our elf Sparkle. So Sparkle will be visiting us for the next 24 days. Jillian gets it when we say Sparkle is watching, Olivia may be too young for this but it’s still fun.
