December 2022 - Part 1 - Plays, Robotics, Tennis, Celebrating Christmas Early, Superintendent Select Luncheon and more!

12/2/22 Jacen and Kyle went to see Ella perform in Sister Act at Monterey High School!

12/3/22 The FMS robotics team had a competition!  That evening we went to see FHS perform Big Fish!  Jacen missed out on the family pic because he was asked to help hand out programs!  I got to see lots of former students!

12/4/22 My friend Jennifer and her daughter Emma are in the states on furlow from Africa, so they spent some time with us.  Girls pic when the girls take Jacen's phone at lunch time after church :) 

12/5/22 Jacen and I watched one of the Christmas plays at FMS before we had to leave for a tennis lesson!

12/6/22 Superintendent Select Luncheon.  Eighth grade students qualify for Superintendent Select by virtue of their outstanding performance on the STAAR tests they took as seventh graders.  Students are selected by scoring in the top ten percent district-wide on at least one of these tests.  

12/9/22 We volunteer once a month for Fiesta Friday at church where we spend the evening with special needs teens and adults while their parents have a night off.  Santa came to visit, so Jacen got a pic too!

12/10/22 We celebrated Christmas early because we will be gone on Christmas day to Disney World!  We started with stockings for everyone including the dog :)  Then Jacen opened his "want, wear, need, read" gifts!

For dinner we had pizza, played Cards Against Humanity Family version and Jacen made himself a Reese's peanut cup milkshake!

12/11/22 The two oldest Dawson kids ate lunch with us!!  Then that evening the youth group had their Christmas party at a skate place!

12/16/22 Family night with a Christmas Yum Box and Cards Against Humanity again!

12/17/22 USTA Tennis tournament!!!  He won first place in his division!  Lunch at Chick-fil-A because we always do that!  Then that evening is was Mom and Jacen night with Fazoli's, a TV show, and the game Sorry!