Welcome to the Milwood Neighborhood Association - Austin, Texas 78727

The home at 4202 Cumbria Ln!

Congratulations on being voted as the best decorated house in Milwood this holiday season! For your creativity and hard work, you are being awarded a $25 dollar Home Depot gift card.

The Milwood Neighborhood Association would like to thank everyone who decorated their home this holiday season. Decorating your home for the holidays not only enters you for a chance at winning a $25 gift card, but also makes Milwood a fun and inviting place to visit for the holidays. We look forward to seeing your homes next year! If you have any feedback for us or would like to get involved with the Milwood Neighborhood Association, please feel free to contact us using the link to the right.

Of all the wonderfully lit houses in our neighborhood, we have narrowed down the voting to seven of the best decorated houses this holiday season. Now, it’s your turn to vote and select who will become the Milwood Holiday House Lighting Contest winner. The winner will receive a $25 Home Depot gift card. For your convenience, we have attached pictures below, but don’t just vote on the picture alone, load up the car with the kids or put the dog on the leash and go see these homes for your self.

Voting will be open until Monday, December 17th. You can visit milwoodna.com on Tuesday, December 18th to find out who was selected as the winner.

You can also view our Picasa web albumn of the finalists or look at the thumbnails below.

3805 Tarragona Ln	3806 Hawkshead Dr	4204 Cumbria Ln	5137 Ganymede Dr
12211 Antoinette Pl	12217 Cabana Ln	12421 Turtleback Ln

Click here to vote for your favorite Milwood home!
Please limit yourself to one vote per person.

The PTA Hospitality Committee is requesting homemade cookies for teacher cookie gift baskets!!
Please help out the committee by bringing your cookies to school on Monday, December 17th and delivering them to the teachers lounge to the specially marked box.

The Hospitality Committee is headed up by Tracy St. Pierre. She is hoping that we will get 100 dozen homemade cookies. These cookies will be divided up into bags and distributed to teachers. Tracy is also looking for at least 5-7 volunteers to come after school that day Monday Dec. 17th at 3:00 p.m. to help put the cookies into bags and tie an ornament on the bag.
Please reply directly to Tracy St. Pierre if you can help out with either cookies or volunteering your time.
tracy.stpierre@texascapitalbank.com

Summitt Elementary Spirit Night
Saturday, December 15th
6:30 to 10:00 p.m.
Ages 3 (bathroom independent) to age 12
(A portion of the fee is donated back to Summitt Elementary.)

Wouldn’t it be fun to go out on a date? Get together with friends? Or just do a little shopping?

Our Parents’ Survival Night makes an evening out a care-free experience. You can rest easy knowing your child is safe and enjoying games, music, and laughter with friends—all the while continuing to build their motor– and social-skill development under the watchful eyes of our professional instructors.

1 child: $30
Each additional sibling $19
(Price includes supervised games and activities, a snack, and a movie.)
Reservations required.
Please call 331-1234.

This note came in from Operation Blue Santa:

We are in dire need to toys for many of the age groups we serve. The bad weather for the Chuy’s Children Giving to Children Parade on Saturday, November 24, left us short of toys.

We are specifically short toys for the following ages and in the amount shown:

Ages/Gender Amount of Toys Needed

Infants (up to 12 months)– boys and girls 446
Boys 1 to 2 years 823
Boys 3 to 4 years 100
Boys 5 to 7 years 786
Boys 8 to 10 years 1,261
Boys 11 to 12 years 584
Boys 13 to 14 years 100

Girls 1 to 2 years 824
Girls 3 to 4 years 50
Girls 5 to 7 years 934
Girls 8 to 10 years 983
Girls 11 to 12 years 392
Girls 13 to 14 years 75

Your donation of new, unwrapped toys can be dropped off at any Austin Fire Station. Other donation locations are listed on our website at www.bluesanta.org.

Over the next several days we will comb the neighborhood for the best house lighting Milwood has to offer. We will post pictures of the top houses in Milwood on www.milwoodna.com by December 12th. Once they are posted, you can drive or walk through the neighborhood and send us an email at boardmembers@milwodna.com with your favorite (one vote per household clever people). The best lit house in Milwood will receive a $25 gift card for the Home Depot.

Voting will close December 17th and the winner will be announced on the website the evening of December 18th. In the meantime, if you have a house you would like to nominate please email us at boardmembers@milwoodna.com

Milwood Neighbors Helping the Capital Area Food Bank and Austin Literacy! Sponsored by the Milwood Neighborhood Association.

Come to the annual Home for the Holidays event on Dec. 15th from 12-3 at our Milwood Library! It’s a come and go event full of browsing at the Library Book Sale and crafting at the open house. We will have goodies, crafts, holiday music and be collecting canned and non-perishable items for the Capital Area Food Bank. Their supplies are low this year! Also, you can purchase books to be donated to Austin Literacy. Needless to say, any cash donations for either cause will also be accepted.

Bring your kids for some holiday cheer! For volunteering opportunities, call Ryan Lanier at 799-7994 and she will put you to work!

If you were like me this past weekend you may have wondered what all the noise was Saturday night around 8pm. If you walked outside to find out what was going on and were in the right spot you may have seen the fireworks overhead. Seems like our new neighbors down at The Domain are kicking off the holiday season with a bang this year.

From their website,

Throughout the holidays, enjoy horse-drawn carriage rides under the lights, story-time with Santa on the weekends, special holiday performances and a spectacular fireworks display every Saturday night.

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