Christmas Tradition

Every year we get a gingerbread something to do before Christmas. This year I saw this Christmas tree and thought it would be cute and different from the traditional houses. These kind of things can either go really really good or really really really bad. Getting the icing just right always helps in making it go well. And after a few tries I finally got it so that the kids could easily spread the icing on themselves. As always Jack decided he would rather eat the cookie than decorate it! I had a good time and I hope the kids always enjoy doing this together making those special Christmas memories.

Merry Christmas!!

More Christmas!

Here are some more pictures of Christmas. We had Christmas in Louisiana and Tennessee. We had a great time. We are so blessed. (sorry there aren't very many pictures!)

NeeNee, Aunt Donna, Aunt Denise and the kids


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Jack got in the pantry and ate his candy...here is the proof!


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Merry Christmas!

More Christmas Activities!

The boys had their preschool Christmas show last week. Jesse was so excited to sing his Christmas carols. And Jack well he would rather sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." Every time we would start to sing carols in the car he would say "no no, twinkle twinkle, momma." Of course the church was very crowded so I don't have any good pictures of Jack during the program. I don't think he sang but then I couldn't really see him.



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this video isn't very long but it is cute of Jesse clapping at the end.


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if you are wondering why Jesse keeps shaking his arm it's because he has jingle bells on his wrist. And you can see Jack a tiny bit in this video. He is sitting behind the kid with the red vest on.


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Jacks' "cheese" face


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Jack throwing his jingle bells around


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Party time!

Last week all the kids had their Christmas parties. I was excited cause I didn't have to do anything unlike the Halloween parties! Not that I mind but three parties on top of all the other stuff to do during Christmas = stress! Bailey got to wear her pj's cause it was a "Polar Express" party. And I don't have many pictures of the boys parties cause I was running back and forth to between their rooms!

Gingerbread Houses 2011

Every year we make gingerbread house. Well one year we had a gingerbread train. And this year we did a village. Since the kids are getting older it is harder to let all three of them "help" without it turning into chaos so thankfully Walmart had a gingerbread Christmas village with 5 houses! I had originally thought that we would each do one but when you are trying to supervise it is hard to do your own especially when one is a two year old, who is trying to eat the candy and the house! So we ended up with three houses plus the one Bailey made at school. The kids loved having their own house. We teased Jesse because his looked like an outhouse. We explained it to him and Bailey but they still didn't fully understand "outhouse" but proudly will tell people that his is an outhouse! It was funny.

Bailey waiting to put the candy on. Daddy is always the one who puts the houses together.


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Jesse and his outhouse


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Jack's house...you see the hole? that's where he took a bite!


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Bailey's finished house


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the outhouse


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our little village...the kids loved adding the people, trees, car and train to make it look real
 

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