Fernandez Family of Five

Regan Plays The Flute At Church...

Regan played the flute for the first time at our church on Sunday, Dec. 16th. It was a last minute decision to have her play so she only had about 2 days to practice this song. I was proud of her for getting up in front of the whole congregation and playing.

Christmas Parade...

Each year our Chick-fil-A participates in a local town Christmas Parade. For the last two years, our whole family has enjoyed being in the parade along with the Cows and some of our employees. It is always such a fun parade with lots of spectators. We handed out a lot of coupons and CFA mints.

Our Santa Cow and Santa Elf.

The girls enjoyed having the Cows to themselves before the parade.

Reece cuddling and keeping warm with Santa Cow.

Riley cuddling with Santa Elf.

Tony's view of the parade.

Regan's Winter Piano Recital 2012...

Regan had her winter piano recital on on Dec. 9, 2012. She played 8 songs this year, which is a lot, and was not as prepared as usual. The recital is always hard because they play on a Grand piano that none of the kids are used to playing on. Regan says the keys are very stiff and hard to play and she is also used to our old piano that has about 9 keytops missing. We have since had them replaced because we realized Regan was learning a lot by feel. We were proud of Regan's perseverance and courage to get up in front of so many people and play 8 songs. She played "Minuet in G Minor" By: Bach, "Over The Rainbow" By: H. Arden, "Evenstar" By: H. Share, "Two Guitars" (Russian Gypsy Song), "Easy Does It" Duet By: J. Alfred, "Nocturne" Duet By: J. Alfred, "Away In The Manger" By: Mier, and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" By: Mier.

Regan playing a duet with her teacher, Mrs. Elena.

Mrs. Elena with her students.

Disney on Ice...

One of my niece's birthday gifts this year from her parents was to go see "Disney on Ice." I remember seeing this many times when I was little and loved it! Abby and Lizzie asked Reece and I to go with them. On Dec. 5th we joined them for a wonderful evening. We went to Red Robin for dinner and then headed to the show. The girls had a fabulous time together as did Abby and I. I think Abby and I enjoyed the show as much as the girls, we were singing and clapping along. Disney did an amazing job with the costumes and staging.

The show is about to begin and we have two very excited girls!

Mickey and Minnie Mouse were the MCs of the show...

This was my favorite, Ariel, the costumes were absolutely amazing.

Reece was trying to predict what princess would come out next.

Maximus the Horse from "Tangled" was fascinating. There was at least 2 people in this costume and they were very talented skaters. The horse looked so real.

Enjoying our night together!!

Abby and Lizzie

Sweet cousins!

The Finale...

Fall Fun In The Leaves...

Riley and Reece raked up this big pile of leaves all by themselves.

After it was raked up, they enjoyed jumping in the pile and throwing leaves

We had so many leaves in our backyard this year!

The Flu...

The last week of November, Tony and I got really sick. I went to the doctor after being sick for 3 days and tested positive for the Flu and Tony had the same symptoms (just a little milder) so we assumed he had the same thing. We quarantined ourselves in the bedroom and the girls took care of themselves. When we did have to be around the girls we wore masks. It was a tough week. I was sick in bed for a full 8 days. :( The girls were amazing and took good care of us.

One night while I was sick in bed, Reece came in and read her entire devotion out loud to me. It was very sweet. However, I was paranoid of her being in my room since we were so sick, so she sat in a chair next to my bed and I wore a mask.

Christmas Tree 2012

On Sunday, Nov. 25 we headed home from Georgia. It is a tradition to get our Christmas Tree the weekend after Thanksgiving so we stopped on our way home to get the tree. We had a Groupon special so we got our tree for 50% off this year. It was a great bargain and we got a beautiful tree.

The girls were eager to open their presents from Mama Cook and Papa Doug when we got home from Georgia. Mama Cook had instructed the girls to open them before Christmas.

This is why....they were ornaments.

The girls watering the tree. We gave them this responsibility this year and they did great. It was nice that Tony and I did not have to climb under the tree anymore.