Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas break! Jon had lots of time off of work and we really enjoyed being around the house and hanging out as a family. My parents and T and Amy came for Christmas. Here are some highlights-

CRAFTING-
Gingerbread Houses

Reindeer Ornaments

Gingerbread Cookies (The gingerbread man ran away with all of the cookies and left the kids a note in the oven saying "Run run as fast as you can, you can't catch me the gingerbread man."

CHRISTMAS FINERY
PJs

Fancy Clothes (these were taken during a "Hula Hoop Show")

PRESENTS

Super creative present from T and Amy- A Spiderman climbing wall for our fence!

SLAPJACK WITH BUBBA

SNUGGLES WITH T

LESSONS ABOUT JESUS
His incarnation is the BEST thing about Christmas!

Noah Cooks!

Annalise ALWAYS wants to help me cook. Anytime I am in the kitchen she is there under my feet. Noah has shown little interest in helping out until recently. We were making a chocolate cake and he was ready to help clean up the beaters. Please note that his undies are on backwards. This is so he can see the Spiderman pictures better. Silly boy!

Handmade Jewelry

Handmade bracelets for Freda. Made especially for her by Annalise.

Yo Gabba Gabba!

My Mom and I took the kids to see Yo Gabba Gabba Live. They LOVED it! They think DJ Lance is so awesome and this was the REAL DJ Lance. Noah was especially mesmerized.

We got there early so we had some treats-

And got some souvenirs-

The kids and Nana. Noah could not peel his eyes off of the stage-

The kids and me. Again, notice Noah's eyes-

The Show! 

Looks of amazement!

Big Kids Night

One night while the Dads were out of town, Olivia and I decided to get a sitter for the little kids and take Annalise and Micah out on a Big Kids Night. They had tons of fun!

First Stop: California Pizza Kitchen

Second Stop: HEB to purchase lots of inexpensive toilet paper!

Third Stop: Miss Becca's House!

This is what it looked like before we got started-

This is what it looked like during the chaos-

And here is our finished product-

A group shot-

Fourth Stop: Ice Cream!

Our night might have been fun enough that Annalise and Micah both had blue poop the next day...