December Fun

December is always packed full of all sorts of fun activities.  Here are a few I took pictures of.

Making play-dough Christmas trees (December 4):  The boys had the first Thursday and Friday in December off of school for conferences, so we decided to make some play-dough Christmas trees.  They had fun decorating them with the colored beads.

   

     

Making a gingerbread nativity (December 12):  We decided to do something a little bit different this year.  Instead of our traditional gingerbread house, I made a gingerbread nativity.  It was much easier than I was expecting, and the boys had just as much fun if not more decorating it.  We’ll definitely be doing this again!

        

Going to Spaghetti Factory and watching the Parade of Ships (December 18):  We had to reschedule our original date because of a bad wind storm, but it worked out because the night we went, there were more boats than we had ever seen before, and the weather was perfect.

     

   

Shane’s Work Party:  We had a great time at Shane’s work party.  It’s always fun to have a night out.

Other Happenings:

James working really hard on a Spiderman drawing, and a big group for a Saturday morning run.

 

The boys having fun with their Legos, and Asher hanging out with me in the morning while I work.

 

The Fisher Price nativity is always a hit.  We found an extra character coming to see the baby Jesus.

 

Davis made himself a Rudolph costume, and our #sharethegift Family Home Evening Activity

 

O Christmas Tree

This year, we got a Christmas tree from Shane’s work party.  It was a beautiful tree, and the boys were excited to decorate it as soon as we brought it home. 

                      

The boys of course wanted to have a sleepover by the tree as soon as it was set up.  I didn’t blame them!

Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving this year, we were lucky to have Dave and Liz and their cute girl Olivia come and stay with us for the week.  They flew in Sunday and stayed with us until Friday.  We had fun with Dave and Liz, and went shopping to the outlets and out to Multnomah Falls with them. 

   

My dad came and joined us from Ashland on Tuesday, and Camille and Bryce, my mom, Avery and new baby Dallin came Tuesday evening.  Dallin was born the week before, so we weren’t sure what Camille would want to do for Thanksgiving, but she decided she wanted to get out of the house and come and join us too.  Dallin was a hit with the boys.  They all liked to lie by him on the floor, and entertain him with their doggies.  Olivia and Avery were pretty popular too!

           

Wednesday, we went to OMSI.  The little kids had fun in the preschool play area while I took Landon and Davis around some of the rest of the museum. 

 

Our Thanksgiving dinner was delicious as always.  It’s never bad to make the dinner when you have so many helpers on hand!

     

After dinner, we played some Sorry and did a little planning for shopping.

 

Thursday night and Friday morning, we of course did a little Black Friday shopping, finding a few good deals while we were out.  We only had one strange incident when the cashier zoned out on me and Liz for a couple of minutes, but he finally came to and got us what we needed.

It was a fun holiday.  This was our first year hosting a Morris Thanksgiving; we hope we get to do it again!