Holiday Fun

It was a hectic holiday season in the Burns' household as always! So much to squeeze in and so little time to do it all!

We started the season out right we the annual construction of the Gingerbread House.

Next came Kendyl's first Christmas Program. The boy on her left is Andrew--her kindergarten crush;-)
Then Kendyl's Christmas party at school! The kids loved freeze dancing to Christmas music and I captured shots of Kendyl and her two amazing teachers. Kendyl absolutely loves kindergarten and Mrs. Townley and Mrs. McKay are definitely part of the reason for that joy of learning. She's especially loving the Christian aspects and can be regularly heard singing Happy Birthday to Jesus and an assortment of other cherished songs from weekly Chapel!

Mrs. Townley & KB

Mrs. McKay & KB

Most exciting of all for Kendyl was her first ever sleepover at Mindi's! They had Kendyl's dinner of choice (pizza), baked and decorated cookies, and then finished the evening with the opening of her first gift- a Santa Buddies DVD and 5 stuffed buddies to cuddle! This was some desperately needed special attention just for Kendyl and it really did make her feel sooo special!

Here are her buddies lined up sled style with Rudolph leading the pack;-)

During Kendyl's sleepover at Mindi's Rob and I decided to have a special date night with Lauryl. Seeing as Lauryl is our good eater (a little more adventurous than Kendyl) we decided it might be a treat to take her to a Japanese Steakhouse. Well, let's just say that the ball of fire from the onion volcano was not a hit with our skittish munchkin at all. She BEGGED to leave and would not calm down. We got the food to go and brought it home. We were right that she would love the food, just wrong to think that the experience of the flipping knives and flames would be well received! We rescued the night with movie time (G-Force) and a super late bedtime. She is sooo funny one-on-one. It's always a treat to get special time with them individually.

We never did make it to Wildlights, but the kids haven't mentioned missing it. We had our annual get together with the Moore kids and made individual pizzas, did crafts, and decorated cookies and they definitely enjoyed that.

All in all a successful lead in to the big day and the time celebrating with family. Family posts will follow:-)