Decemeber 2013

Instead of trying to back post all of December I'm just going to add it all in one. At the end of November I was on the hunt for a Christmas book that had a scripture, song and story. I remember Mom having one when we were growing up and I desperately wanted to do that for our family. In addition though I wanted to do something with the kids each night in December. Some of the things had specific nights to do them on like open Christmas jammies (Christmas Eve), but most of them were whatever we felt like doing. Here are some pictures of our activities.

 

We strung Froot Loops for the kids tree:

 

 

Decorated our big tree:

 

Made Snowflakes one night so they would snow in the kitchen:

 

Attended our Ward Christmas Party which Santa came to:

 

 

Decorated gingerbread houses and men:

 

Of course we did our annual Christmas Eve dinner at McDonalds, which the kids love cause they have the play place to themselves. Then we looked at light and home to open Christmas Eve jammies:

 

And of course Christmas Morning:



 

 

The big items this year were the Nintendo 2DS the older 3 got. Ruby got everything "Doc McStuffins", Emily loves her 'Kidz Bop" CD's and Mordecai loves his Megazord. Ivy didn't really care. Mike loved his riding pants I got him and I loved my down feather pillow inserts Mike got me and the baseboards he has installed. It was pretty low key day which we loved.

 

New Years Eve we were invited to a couple of places, but since we were all getting over the last of influenza we all picked up 1-2 weeks before Christmas, we opted to stay home and have treats and play games as a family. Mike has been home from work for 2 weeks and we all have loved it. Sleeping in until 8:00 a.m., being lazy in the mornings and just hanging out with each other. It has been fun.