Rewind to the beginning of August: Poppa and Rara were taking Rose to Jacksonville, and the big girls wanted to stall them from leaving, so Noelle dressed up as Santa and Anna Kate dressed up as her elf.  They had lots of Christmas in August activities planned before they were going to let their grandparents and Rose leave!

 

Noelle taped a white shirt upside down to her chin with packaging tape for her beard! That’s one dedicated Santa right there!  Anna Kate said her neon yellow shoes represented the shinning star in the sky over Bethlehem.  Pretty clever!

 

Here’s Santa and her elf giving some love, and Santa Noelle sat on the couch, very attentive to Rose’s Christmas list.  Noelle would wink at me and that was my signal to be paying attention to whatever Rose requested.  It was so adorable!

Can’t tell you what a sweetheart Noelle is!  With each year, she has matured, and with that maturity has come the most empathetic and kind-hearted little girl I could ever hope for in a daughter.  We are so blessed to have such genuinely sweet girls!  (some more consistently sweet than others right now, but deep down, the point holds true, lol)

After Christmas wishes, we had a tea party, of course!  We have a million tea parties a day!  That’s just part of being a Pond girl!  And yes, ice cream is served with our tea every time!

And after an awesome sleigh ride around the house in Jax’s bed, the big sisters couldn’t hold them here any longer!  It was time for Poppa and Rara to head back to the country with our littlest diva for the weekend.