Christmas craft fun

More craft fun. It was a Christmas tree decoration tonight while we ate chocolate candies. lol

Dad's getting into the decorating. =) Madelynne's partner in crafty crime.

Jacob teamed up with me to get his done.

Madelynne & Grandpa's finished product.

Paul finally finished. =) Michael is a nut.

Pickly man with his tree.

Wow, these guys are all a little silly. =) Benjamin with his end result. fun fun!

Gettin' crafty =)

We had some way cute crafts brought over and have had fun making it a family thing each night while they last. Last night we did the snowmen. The kids had a blast making them.

Christmas party fun

Saturday night was the ward Christmas party. The kids had fun dressing up like shepherds. I could tell Benjamin was surprised to be Joseph. Bless his heart. He kept saying things like 'what if someone else is when we get there?' He's so tender. It turned out pretty great. All the kids looked awesome and sang out nicely. Then the family dancing was a lot of fun afterwards. :) I didn't get a picture of Madelynne darn it. She was an angel. A messy one since she was eating ice cream before....with 2 spoons! She's a nut!

Jacob ended up being the puppy.
but tried on the shepherd at home.

Paul stylin in Theron's leather coat as a shepherd. lol

Michael

Benjamin played Joseph. Great night!

This was great! Hope your holidays are going well so far!!!

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Gingerbread houses =)

It was a sticky sticky afternoon around here. We rolled out the gingerbread dough last night and cut out the walls & roof then baked them letting them sit out overnight to firm up a little more then the decorating began today after lunch.

Paul's little house under construction.
gingerbread lane =)

Madelynne's finished house.

Paul's house.

Michael's house.

Benjamin's house.

They had the back sides decorated too, but that was a ton more pictures. They turned out pretty cute. Lots of fun. Learned what to do better for next year since this was our first attempt ever at gingerbread houses. lol =) Merry Christmas!!

Christmas Explosion!

Christmas was quite the success around here. The kids stayed up so late last night they had to be woken up when they slept till nearly 8:30am. LOL! We all had a lot of fun watching the kids and talking to family today. Theron got the punching bag he's wanted forever! He was VERY surprised and his expressions were priceless. He thought I was saving up for next year to get it. Funny! We recorded it and put it in the family archive of great moments. haha! Christmas dinner was awesome with ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, yams, corn. Mmmmmm! I totally forgot to defrost the rolls in time so DANG! Anyway, it's great to have Theron home with us today. :)

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

This month has flown! I can't believe it's already Christmas Eve. I woke up this morning thought about what day it is and got really excited like a kid at Christmas again. :))) Then I was irritated the rest of the morning, but that's another story for another day, not. :) Theron will be home this afternoon so that's exciting. Thankfully he helped me wrap all the presents hidden away in this house when he was home last week. I can't wait to see the kids faces as they open their presents and see their brothers and sister open the presents they bought for each other. It's time to turn on some Christmas music and get the Christmas feeling going in full swing. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

The tree is up!

Our Christmas tree has been up for the past 3 days and we finally got it decorated tonight. Yeehaw! The kids had a blast putting all the ornaments on and Jacob has fun taking them off again. LOL. It will be a work in progress with Jacob's curiosity. :)