Christmas Season Happenings

Drum had a great time making these goodies with another family. This Mom did this activity with 4 BOYS. WOW! I was impressed. He had so much fun.


Deer played the flute and was in the Christmas program at our church.


She did a beautiful job. We are so grateful to her favorite teacher, Andrea. She has just loved lessons and is looking forward to getting back to them after the Christmas season.

It has been so busy and so fun to get down to the business of making cookies and finishing the shopping. We made gingerbread men, roll-out cookies, candy-kiss cookies (which we always make with hugs), Russian tea cakes, melting moments, Keebler bars, peanut-roll bars, fudge, million dollar bars, and fancy pretzel sticks. Our friends, JoAnn & Lorissa, came to help with the roll-outs.














The pretzel sticks turned out so cool!! We scooped carmel, white chocolate, or milk chocolate on them. Then we rolled them in nuts, mini choc. chips, cherry chips, crushed candy, toffee, andes mints, or sprinkles. Then we drizzled milk choc. and white choc. over the tops. We flipped them when dry to do the other side. So beautiful looking and I especially like the carmel, nut ones. They make the pretzel less crunchy and more chewy.


Here is Darling, entertaining herself while Mom is busy. :-)





We went caroling with friends at the nursing home after lunch out on Sunday. The kids had so much fun and I know they blessed the residents.


We celebrated our family's Christmas that night. Dessert opened his present from us and stated,


"I don't like this! Why would you get me this?!"


It was moon sand. He wanted Spiderman action figures but I knew his Grandma had one for him, and not wanting him to only get spiderman things for C-mas, we got him Moon Sand. Needless to say, we returned it. We had a great evening relaxing with each other.

Monday we finished up some baking, etc. and then went to Dunk's folks up the hill. We had a fun evening. For the first time we had Gma & Gpa open their gifts from the kids first. It was nice because the kids got to see them open their gifts and enjoy what they brought. I'm sure we'll do that again.


Uncle "Santa" and Aunt Sandy Claus joined us in the evening. I won't show the pictures of Darling freaking out about sitting in Santa's lap. She loved the teddy bear he brought her, though and carried it around all evening. Anyone see Duke's Texas toothpick strapped on the belt in the picture? He wanted a "BIG" knife for C-mas and Papa answered his prayers for one. :-) He even got to cut Gma K's birthday cake with it the day after C-mas. If I get a picture e-mailed, I'll be sure to post it. :-)



Christmas Day we did stockings in the morning and then went to my folks for a full day with the cousins. Uncle P brought snowmobiles!!!!!! The boys were soooooo excited and spent tons of time on them. The rest of us just ate, rested, ate, played, ate, visited, ate. :-) The next day we celebrated my Mom's birthday with KFC and ice-cream cake. It was great to stretch out the holidays and get more time with the relatives we don't see often enough. I wish I took more pictures of the fun times. Here is Cousin L and Dessert playing another game of UNO!!! Here are my two C-mas princesses. Dessert finally got his Spiderman action figure.
The cousins got matching hunting jackets and hunting books.
Deer & her cousin got books they enjoyed going over and over. Papa rocked the little ones.