Christmas time at our house…

I finally reached a point that I could totally take a break from business stuff and immerse myself with Christmas activities with the kids…. It really started to feel like Christmas this week.

We kicked off the week by doing our monthly nursing home visit. The children from the church did their Christmas program for the residents. They just loved seeing them in their costumes. It was such a blessing to see them excited and encouraged in the Lord.

My brother and I gathered at mom and dad’s house one morning at 4 am to make fried apple pies together. It was a special time that I will always remember.

While working on my Christmas cards, the girls were supposed to be drawing Christmas pictures on the back of notecards for me. I just wanted to slip a quick note in a few people’s cards and thought it would be fun to have the girls do some pictures on the other side of the cards. They drew a few Christmas pictures, but somehow started doing pictures of fruits and vegetables. Here’s a pumpkin, tomato, and strawberry.

Here’s one that Emmy drew that became quite the controversy between her and Reagan. Emmy said that she drew a Christmas tree and heart. Reagan said that the heart looked like a big butt and that we could not put it in someone’s card.

As I was driving home, my Uncle Rick had just dropped some hay in the road. He motioned for me to go around him, but when I pulled out my cell phone to take a picture, he went ahead of me. haha

Here they were sticking cotton balls to their noses with fettuccine sauce just to celebrate the fact that Emmy tried some pineapple at Gran’s and liked it! Silly girls! (lots of giggles)

Emmy wrapped up my pair of scissors that I was using to wrap gifts. haha Thankfully, she let me open the gift right after she wrapped it. ha!

Our first time making Oreo Balls- success!

On the way to church-

After church we had a LONG night of crafts at home. Max wanted to paint so bad so I finally gave in and let him paint for a while. I just went ahead and stripped him out of his clothes because he doesn’t have the reputation of being the neatest artist in our house. As you can see, he started getting a little carried away. He painted about ten pictures before it just turned into a silly mess. I tried to video it and was interested to see just HOW far they would take the mess, but alas, they didn’t draw the line at the appropriate time and we had to have some parental intervention before things got REALLY out of hand. haha

Myself, Lauren, and Daniel had a friendly facebook competition to see who’s Christmas tree was the best.

(1- me, 2-lauren, 3-daniel) Looks like Lauren actually won by FB votes (even with Daniel’s unfair campaigning!)

Crafting continued into the next day-

Sunday morning bath time-

We visited my dad’s dad’s house (My Papaw, aka Papaw Curtis to my kids) Here’s dad telling Max that Curtis is his Papaw, too.

After our trip to Scott County to see my grandparents, we went to Daniel’s grandparents to have Christmas with his extended family.

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This is a video of Max singing by himself. I am not entirely sure of what he is singing although I did hear him say “spider” a couple times so it could have been his version of Itsy Bitsy Spider.