Merry Christmas!

Photo by Aynn Thurman

gingerbread house, year two

So, apparently I have been spoiled all growing up with making gingerbread houses--real gingerbread houses. My aunt, JoDee, would make the gingerbread and we would gather at Grandma and Grandpa's house, or later the aunt's houses and make gingerbread house with the real gingerbread and real icing. Last year was the first year our little family did graham cracker houses--which is what most people do. :)

We did it again a couple of weeks ago. The kids loved it and were so excited to decorate the house.

I thought last years was ghetto--this years was much more ghetto. I think Parker lost his architectural artistic ability--or he was too tired to care.

I heart you too, Easton.
"Keagan--look at me and make a pretty face."
So, she did and sang as she did. (probably the Ariel song)

Watch out--if you don't pay attention, Keagan will try to sneak the frosting off the spatula.

crazy eyes

The finished product. It was so hard to get the kids to look at me and stand still, so this is the best picture I got.

O Christmas Tree....

We decorated our tree the day after Thanksgiving and this, oddly enough, is the first year we have had a proper star for the top. Easton got the honor of putting it on, with Daddy's help. The kids loved helping put the ornaments on and I noticed that the "ring of ornaments" (where the kids can reach to put them on the tree) is a little higher this year. On a non-Christmas note: today I cleaned out the toy boxes while Easton was at school. I dropped Keagan off at my mom's in hopes of avoiding the tears that come along with DIing old toys and trashing broken ones.

I picked Easton up and had a load of stuff in the trunk to drop off at the DI. I got out and got the stuff to the DI shelves and one of the helpers took a toy and put it on the shelf near Easton's window--not on the shelf behind the car like the other helper was doing. I got back in the car and Easton's chin is quivering and he says, "Mom, why did that man take my toy?" ("Crap." I think) "Um, it was broken..." (which it wasn't) "But, Mom, that was my favorite toy." (He hasn't played with it in months...) Joy.

ARGGHH!

Good thing little sister has a lot of PIRATE jewelry.

Park City

We went up to Park City right before the huge "blizzard." There was already quite a bit of snow up there and the kids had so much fun playing in it. Keagan didn't last as long as Easton and Max, but she still had fun.

Easton and Max
Making a snow angel

Eating the snow

After the kids came in and were hot-chocolated up, we looked out the back door and saw two big moose on the golf course. They were fighting each other with their antlers until the dog next door went out and started barking at them.