We've been pretty busy the month of December, like the rest of you! It's such a fun time of year and a magical time of year for the kids. So fun "seeing" Christmas through your children's eyes!
I didn't get any photos of annual Christmas party I host with our friends from a moms group formed years ago. But the kids and adult all had a great time! I think there were 9 or 10 families that came this year. We are blessed with good friends/good support system! :)
Our elf Stanley, was quite the character this season! One morning he had graffitied the kids' pictures!
Where's Porter? Snapped this of him one day when I was volunteering at recess.
We didn't have to dream of a White Christmas this year! A blizzard blew through here Wednesday night before Christmas. School was cancelled on Thursday and Friday, which the kids were thrilled about! This is a tree across the street that is weighed down by all the heavy snow.
Stella using a very large branch that broke off during the storm to break icicles off the house.
Porter catching snowflakes on his tongue.
Warming up with some hot cocoa after playing a couple hours in the snow.
Enjoying some snow ice cream!
Decorating Christmas sugar cookies.
Playing in the snow a different day. They got some big icicles down and loved eating them.
Cosmo doesn't not lack attention or love in this household!
Sledding with the kids and Hannah and Haydn at Waveland Golf Course. Always a fun time!!
We went to Jolly Holiday Lights for the first time in a few years. It was PACKED! Next time we will go earlier in the season, but it was still fun seeing everything all lit up.
Christmas Eve morning the kids helped me make monkey bread to enjoy on Christmas morning.
Thursday the kids and I went to the library to get some books and happened to arrive just before a puppet show was starting. They wanted to see the show and it ended up being really cute. Stella and Porter both got chosen from the audience to come up and help the puppeteer out during her show. They were excited about that!
Yesterday I took the kids to Climb Iowa, Stella had gone to a birthday party there last spring and just loved it! She is definitely part monkey! She made it to the top at a handful of different spots.
A couple weeks ago I took them to the mall to visit Santa and ride the train. They still love to ride the train even at their ages! LOL!
With their letters they wrote to Santa.
Porter's Christmas concert. This is the kindergarten and 1st grade classes from St. Francis. He's in the front row, in the gray sweater next to the little boy in the white shirt with red tie. We have a new computer and I can't figure out how to edit/crop pics yet! And I can't find Stella's Christmas concert photos on this computer at all! I will post some when I figure this all out. Both of their concerts were very cute and they enjoyed singing in them.
Porter with is number 1 gift on Christmas morning. The Talking Eagle Castle. He's been asking for this thing for months!! He's had so much fun with it this past week! :)
we had munkey bread for christmas morning as well. Stella's earmuffs are huge! love the crutches!
ReplyDeleteThe kids did a great job decorating cookies! They can help me next year! Love Stella's earmuffs! Huge! And didn't even know they still made Caboodles! Looks like Santa got all the perfect gifts! The rock climbing is amazing! Stella has NO fear!
ReplyDeleteSo sorry I missed you in Iowa, but looks like you all have been busy! I am dying that you can still buy Caboodles, or did you just pass on yours from our old days ; ) And Porter is wearing a sweatshirt & pjs that we have at our house, too! Hope the kids have had a great vacation, it's gone by fast!
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