December 2008

Looking back at December

We had a great Christmas, the boys got everything they asked for (I think). They are at that age where they are asking for video games and money (which makes me a little sad), good thing I've got Nick. This was the second year that the boys made each other presents. Trey made Nick an apron for the kitchen he was getting from Santa, and he made Jordan a sleeping bag for his stuffed animals. It was a little scary letting Trey use the sewing machine, he wanted to floor it on the foot pedal, I am wondering if this is a sign of the future (driving, YIKES). Jordan decided back in November he would start making Nick mini books and he made Trey a cadi holder for his phone/controllers. It's a good thing we covered it in family guy images or else I don't think he would of liked it. Yes, I said family guy that's what the fam watches when I work nights (I just love my hubby). When I asked Willie what he wanted for Christmas he said Hulk hands for me and the kids, well thats what he got! You should have seen the faces on the kids when Willie kept pulling out more and more Hulk hands from the giant christmas bag they were in, Priceless! They have had so much fun playing with those things, now where do I put all those green hands.

Reindeer Food

Some other things we did this December included making reindeer food. This is something we have always done and this year we made enough to hand out at my works Christmas Party and a few left over to send to cousins.

Reindeer

Food

Recipe

Dried Oats, Sugar, Sprinkles, Glitter

Sprinkle on the lawn at night,

The moon will make it sparkle bright,

As Santa's reindeer fly and roam,

This will guide them to your home.

Gingerbread House

Every year we also decorate a gingerbread house. This year the boys did not have the patience to wait to put the candy on the house so our gingerbread house was really struggling to stay up.

I just love this free digital desktop calendar from shabby princess, I thought it was just too cute not to share with everybody.

December

This week Nick and I went to story time at the library. All of the kids got Reindeer ears and a jingle bell necklace and Nick got his picture taken in front of the Christmas tree. The story this week was the gingerbread man and I think Nick's favorite part of story time was watching the puppet show. Nick really liked decorating his gingerbread boy,

cookies were handed out in between activities and games, and all of the kids at story time got cute little treat bags.

We will definitely be going again next week, I just love the library!!!

I found this site were you can decorate a gingerbread boy. The boys had so much fun decorating their own "gingy". This is Jordan's penguine gingerbread boy and here is Nicks "gingy"

Jordan had his is Christmas concert this week and his grade sang three songs. It was a nice short little concert (thats how we like them). Jordan was so funny he had a scowl on his face the entire time his class was singing, he said the lights were to bright and they hurt his eyes, ahh poor kid! After the concert I took Jordan to where else but Chilis and we had dessert. I really enjoyed this because we got to spend some quality time together. Willie stayed home with Nick and Trey, Nick is just at that age where sitting and being quiet is an impossible task.

We had a great Halloween this year and the boys loaded up on tons of candy. By the end of the night Nick was dragging his bag because it was so heavy for him (Yikes, that's way to much candy for a 3 year old). I tried to get some pictures in before we headed out, but we all know how that goes.

Drillbit Taylor (trey), Yoda (nick), Darth Vader (jordan)

Here it little Yoda running to beat the boys to the doorbell, I think that was his favorite part of trick-or-treating. Trey was so helpful with Nick he made sure that Nick held is bag up each and every time, he kept Nick from ringing the doorbells more than once, and he didn't even laugh when the old guy he almost fell over when handing out candy (he saved it for when we walked down the street).

Bucket of treats for J's 3rd grade class



These popcorn hands were such a hit at Jordan's class party, we made a few extra so Nick could take some to his daycare.

Jordan played flag football this year and I am so glad we decided to do flag football instead of pop-warner (ya know that whole broken arm thing). Jordan's flag football team was the Patriots and the season went by so fast. Since the season started football is all Jordan could and still thinks about; he watches football with Willie, plays football at recess, draws pictures about football, would wear his football jersey everyday if I let him, looks and organizes his football cards, and his teacher says she thinks he day dreams about football.