My Christmas

We tried to make Christmas pretty special for the girls this year. I wanted to do something Christmas-y every day leading up to Christmas Day.

It kind of worked. . .

Monday--- we made cinnamon/applesauce ornaments. Only two ingredients + cookie cutters = wonderful time for both mommy and kiddos. AND they smell delicious! I totally recommend it. . .

Tuesday--- we sang carols together as a family (you know, the 3 my kids recognized at least)

Wednesday--- we invited Amber and Talon over for dinner and candy houses. It was a time for creativity, for yummy candy and for FUN!

Thursday--- we visited the doctor and found out Carina and I had strep throat. Yuck! Awful! I was highly contagious so I quarantined myself to my bed and the girls watched movies all day. We were a bit more festive by dinner time and watched the Muppet Christmas Carol together. --Good news, nobody else got it! Whew!

Friday--- Christmas Eve! We cleaned our house and did a lot of disinfecting cause the fam was coming to town.

Saturday--- HOLY SMOKES, LOOK AT ALL THOSE PRESENTS! After unwrapping them all we played games the rest of the day (#1 present for me) and played with lots of toys.

Hope everyone else had a Merry Christmas too!!

Here are a few pics of our candy house experience. ( I forgot to take the camera out till after Åmber and Talon had left. I'm a dork) I also didn't take my camera out at all on Christmas day. I'm seriously a dork)

My masterpiece: gobs of candy

Mike's masterpiece: The Space Needle

Christmas at our house. . .

Creeping

So it just clicked in my brain that Christmas is less than 2 weeks away!!!!!

Not that I'm not ready. . . it just crept up on me.

You know, this never happened when I was a kid. . .

And randomly at our house:

a picture of my thumb nail after our weekly GNP (Girls nail party) a few days ago. Picture extra super duper mini snowmen on Danna's thumb nails. . .

Good times!

Christmas decor pictures to come soon.

Nobody told me. . .

Remember how I hate don't prefer the snow?

Yesterday, I changed my mind!

We made this snowman in about 2 seconds flat! The snow was THAT GOOD!

And he's stinkin adorable!!!

So we had time to make a snow fort too. . .

Then, my kids went inside,

and I stayed cause I was having a blast!

Nobody told me the snow could be soooo much FUN! :)

(That was hugely sarcastic by the way)

I'll be grumpy about it as soon as it goes below 30 deg again, just wait. . .