Spending Time With Friends

Boy, it has been a whirlwind of a month! And even with all of our activities, we have managed to squeeze in a few play dates and go to a couple of birthday parties in the month of December. Briana is holding her friend "Horace the Horse" in the above picture. He is the preschool project. He gets to go home with each child for a weekend a couple of times during the school year and the parents kids do a write up of their weekends to present to the class.

Here is Briana with her friends Matthew, C and S at a McDonald's play date a couple of weeks ago... 

And here is Briana and her friend Laney. Laney's brother and sister were not in the picture taking mood during this play date, so they didn't get in the picture, but Horace did!

The weekend we had Horace, we attended two birthday parties. The first was for Briana's preschool friend Ethan...

Right after Ethan's party, we headed over to Eriks' bounce party (and yes, she had pizza twice)...

Of course, Briana got to hang with friends ML and Imerie at the "Goodies with Grands" at school last week. And Briana and I luckily got to go out have lunch today with ML, her brother and her Mommy too...

Yesterday, Bri and I joined our friends Chani, Kathy and Matt for a puppet show at the Center for Puppetry Arts. It was an amazing puppet show. All the puppets looked exactly like the characters you see in the Rudolph Christmas special. And the performers had all the voices down pat too - amazing. Briana and Chani had a great time...

We ended up eating at Joe's Cr@b Shack after the show. The girls were watching the employees dance in the picture below. Unfortunately, Briana decided to act up during the last 10 minutes of our perfect day (due to exhaustion I think). This picture was taken before all the tears...

As you can see, we have had a BUSY December so far and today is only December 20th. Besides baking Christmas cookies at my sister's house tomorrow, we are keeping it low key this week. Santa comes on Saturday and we need to save our energy for that.

Hope you are all enjoying the countdown to Christmas as much as we are!