December Happenings

As usual, we had a busy month filled with our advent activities. Some highlights are below:

Playing reindeer games. This was "Pin the Nose on the Reindeer." Ollie drew the reindeer. :)


Decorating cookies that only kids could like.


Decorating a gingerbread house with our family friend, Edna.


Decorating gingerbread men. Lots of decorating going on this year.


Annual "sleep under the tree" night. You can't see it, but we're projecting the movie "Elf" on the wall. It was a lot of fun to watch it that way.


There was also lots of driving by house lights, reading Christmas books, watching Christmas movies, and shopping.

We also had a bonus Secret Santa night. We made some treats for our ward Christmas party one Saturday, and the next Tuesday a friend put out a message looking for the bakers of that dessert because they wanted the recipe. I thought we do could better than that: we could make them a fresh batch (which would NOT be over-baked like the ones I brought to the party). So that we did. I was able to get them done right when the boys were going to bed, so we all piled in the car and doorbell ditched those suckers. :) The boys had an awesome time doing it and LOVED that by the time we got home, our friends had already thanked their "Secret Santa" on Facebook. That might have to happen again next year.