December activities

Here's a few things we've been doing the past few weeks:

We made Italian Pizzelles - old family tradition.  We made 10 dozen of these for gifts & cookie exchanges and ate a few along the way.  The kids were my "flour sifters" -

They were using Great Grandma Thomas' flour sifter.

 Garrett wanted a picture in front of the HUGE tree in our church's galleria - Olivia did not, go figure.

We had a great time at Ray's Splash Planet for a birthday party - swimming in December -

the kids LOVED it!

We made snowman wrappers that covered chocolate candy bars for our neighbors & family.

 

We made sun catchers - on a cloudy day - how ironic!! Olivia was very precise and sat at the table for 2 hours to get hers done.  Garrett sat for about 30 min and it is still unfinished :)

We decorated these HUGE gingerbread men from Trader Joe's with our friends.

Olivia and I were able to attend a "girls only" Christmas tea - it was so fun to see all the girls all dressed up and eating their sandwiches, cookies and not tea, but their choice - Hot Chocolate!

Throw in a Christmas dinner, Christmas breakfast, Christmas cookie exchange, putting up Jesse Tree ornaments, sewing a dress for Olivia and shopping for Christmas dinner and that's a wrap - next post will surely be after Christmas!!  Hope you all have a Joyous Christmas with your family & friends!