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This last week was the last day of shcool for winter break for both Jake's school as well as the pre-school for the little kids. As such, it was a little bit of a crazed holiday week for us here at home, with teacher gifts, Christmas parties, holiday pajama parties, gift exchanges and performances (and related costuming and make-up madness). But we go thru it and had a lot of fun.

Wednesday was the big day, we had performances at Jake's school during the day and both the little kids had their performances Wednesday night at the clubhouse. Both Grandma's were here and able to go which made it even more special.

All of the kids did great. Jake's performance was HUGE with both 1st and 2nd grades in costume (Jake was a reindeer). He did great and sang along and did his choreography, but did it all in a way that you could tell it was getting to the borderline of "being cool" for him and I wouldn't be surprised if this is the last one he really tries all out in.

Tanner was a sheep in his (complete with wool and

a black nose) and did great for Tanner. Performing doesn't seem to be his strong suit so far. He kind of sang along and rang his bell when he was supposed to. He spent most of the performance staring at his teacher to make sure he didn't "mess up" and smiling when you looked directly at him.

Faith is the performer in the family. She obviously LOVED every minute of it. Singing loudly and smiling from ear to ear. I thought she was going to give herself or the poor boy next to her a concussion with her jingle bell, but we made it thru with no major injuries. We had cookies and snacks after each performance and the kids cam home tired from all the excitement.

We are finally finished with our Christmas shopping for the most part (wrapping...not so much), and coming into the home stretch. Jake is off this week while the kids are in daycare so it should be a less hectic week as we head into the Christmas home stretch.

Merry Christmas to you and yours from the Alan Family!