Our Favorite Things: December 2009

Monday, December 28, 2009

Christmas Morning

Twas the night before Christmas

and all through the house,

not a creature was stirring,

not even a mouse.

They finally awoke at 7 o'clock

and waited for dad to undo the gate lock.

Here they come now, the race has begun

Brinley is up for some shopping cart fun

The boys got new scooters and look at them go.

Around the kitchen and past the back door.

Kayla was in for quite a surprise

2 new dolls - she couldn't believe her eyes

Lars' parents came over for Christmas Eve dinner and festivities. We had taco salad and Christmas cookies for dessert. It is so fun to have 4 kids because they can actually play the parts of the nativity. Kayla was Mary and she also stood in for a very tired Brinley as an angel. Henry was a shepherd and Jack was Joseph. Lars brought the happy couple to Bethlehem as the donkey. Grandpa Larsen read the nativity from the Bible. We had a fun time.

We let the kids open a gift - the traditional jammies. Henry was so excited to open a gift. All day long he asked, "When can we open a present, when? when? when?" He obviously can't remember that every Christmas Eve it is the same thing... Pajamas. Maybe next year he'll remember.

Santa had a little helper this year in the form of an 8 yr old who no longer believes. She was very excited to be an elf for the little ones. It made for a late night so we had to wake the kids up at 7:00 AM to open gifts. Good Times!

The Ice Skaters

We have this musical magnet ice skater thing my parents gave us that my aunt had given them. It is a Christmas time favorite for the kids. Brinley sat on that chair and just watched the skaters go around and around. She loved it!

December

I'm way behind on postings! So let's play catch-up!!

We had a visitor in the form of a roadrunner (we think). It was on the wall right out of our front door.

My sister went to Africa to visit my parents last month. She brought Jack home some chips called 'Jackers". They are shaped like Pringles but they are too sweet for me.

Let the baking begin! The kids absolutely love love love playing restraunt. They get out the big keepers and put blankets on them for the tables and use all the pretend food we have. They make menus and then fight over who has to be the patron of the restraunt. They all want to be the chef. They have so much fun and we have fun listening and watching them play.

We baked and baked and baked for what seemed like days and days but really it was just 1 day all day! Chocolate chip muffin cookies, peanut brittle, mint fudge, chocolate carmel pretzels, peanut butter blossoms, YUMMY!!! The hardest part was not eating all of it. I usually make way too much but this year we actually ran out of treats! It was fun!!

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Part 2 Kindergarten Concert

Henry's Kindergarten Christmas Extravaganza!!

Lars couldn't be there so I took alot of video of Henry's class. Annalee came with me. They were so dang cute! I especially love the political correctness of the "Light the Candle Spin the Dradel" song.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Ward Christmas Party

We had our ward Christmas party this past Friday. Our theme was an Old Fashion Country Christmas. People dressed up in 'western wear' and had pulled pork, sloppy joes, hot dogs, coleslaw, potato salad, jello salad and dutch oven cobbler and cookies for dessert. Since I was in charge this year we did a simple program. Brian Levanger in our ward played his guitar and led the audience in some Christmas Carols while the kids went into the primary room and dressed up to act out the Nativity. It was darling! Jack was a 'king' not a wise man. He was pretty disappointed that he couldn't be the Baby Jesus... sweet huh? Henry was a sheep and Kayla was an Angel. It was a great time! Brinley was totally sleep deprived since she didn't get her nap on Friday so she fell asleep before Santa came.