Christmas 2012

First, our family Christmas. Although nothing exciting, I’m cherishing these photos because last year I lost the photos from our family Christmas due to a problem with my memory card. The kids absolutely loved the Disney name tags. Ella had a great time (at all our Christmases) going around reading the names on all the tags. Troy was pretty funny sometimes because he would look at the tags and act like he was reading them and then say "Its mine?"

 

Next, Christmas with Gigi and Pop-pa.

 

And, finally Christmas at Rhu-Rhu's.

Christmas 2011

Merry Christmas!

It is amazing how the little things can slow you down. Like a broken computer. Or being sick. Add in the holidays and I fall very behind in everything including getting Christmas cards out. Oh well, that’s life. I hope everyone had a great Christmas!

The Gingerbread House

So behind on blogging (that’s what happens when your computer breaks AND it is the holidays). Catching up a little at a time!

Ella (and Troy this year!) got to decorate a gingerbread house. I was surprised that Troy actually did some “decorating” before he decided he needed to dig into the candy. I cannot believe how much Ella has grown since we decorated a gingerbread house last Christmas, and that Troy could actually help this year!

 

 

I let each kid decorate one side of the roof. This one is Ella's side:

 

And this one is Troy's side:

Christmas 2011

No words only than these few here at the beginning, just lots of photos! Sadly, one of my memory cards became corrupted, and I am missing a chunk of Christmas photos. I’m hoping I can eventually get the photos off the card . . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Activities (with a toddler!)

Now that Ella is getting a little bit older, I was excited to do lots of fun Christmas projects with her this year. We didn’t get around to doing as many things as I had originally planned, but we did do a couple of fun projects.

First, we made a gingerbread house. We used a boxed kit, and Ella had a ton of fun directing me where to put icing and candy as well as placing some of the candy herself. She was even more excited when she figured out that she could eat some of the candy. : ) By the way, no judging on the quality of the finished product – I’m not very creative and my helper was a two year old! ; )

 

 

 

 

We also made salt dough ornaments. They were incredibly easy to make, and Ella really enjoyed picking out shapes as well as using the cookie cutters (or other utensils) to cut out the shapes.

 

 

 

(Ella was sick when we did this activity, so ignore the snotty face . . .)