Every year our church hosts a drop and shop where parents can drop their kids off for a few hours and go shopping (or whatever). Every year, they have a Santa (actually a guy in our church) who comes and takes pics with the kids.
Ice skating in southern CA??? Not really. This is synthetic ice (plastic) but people actually come out to skate on the stuff. This was Sky's first experience with ice skating and she liked it but was pretty terrified of falling (thankfully she didn't!).
One day while Sky was at art class, I decided to do some creative cooking with Lila and Brad. First we made this cream cheese/moz. cheese snowman and then we made gingerbread. Brad has been enamored with this gingerbread ornament on the tree (he really wants to eat it) and so I thought he would enjoy making his own gingerbread. WOW! What a mess! I didn't even get any pictures because we were all covered in flour and dough. Lila especially made a HUGE mess (flour in her hair, dough in the carpet, etc.). But they had a good time.
The day after Thanksgiving we decorated our little artificial Christmas tree. Ken loves this tree because it came pre-lit.
The kids really enjoyed looking at all of the ornaments and putting them on the tree. Brad especially seemed very interested in all of it.
Some of my favorite gifts already this season are a gingerbread table runner from my mom and Bill, a beautiful handmade Jesse tree from my pastor's wife, and a really nice red and white serving platter that says "Jesus is the gift" from my friend Christine. Maybe I'll post pics of these in a future blog post.
Just tonight we went to our good friend's, the Denham's, home for dinner and cookie decorating. That was very messy also, but again, the kids had a blast.
What else has been going on lately? We went to a faculty Christmas open house on Sunday and met Norman Wright (famous author who writes mostly on marriage). That was cool. He was really nice and down to earth. And we had a great time visiting with other professors and their spouses.
Yesterday we went to Downtown Disney to the LEGO store for a free LEGO build. The first Tues. of every month, the LEGO store hosts a free LEGO build. Every month it's a different thing. Yesterday Sky and Brad got to build a LEGO nutcracker. It was super fun and you get to keep the LEGOS you build with!!! Hopefully we can do it again sometime.
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Such fun going-ons! :o) Wish we were there to join you in some of those. We made ornaments here, too. They had a blast getting their hands in it, mixing and playing with the dough. We cut them out, and then Natalie lost interest....all the more for Julia to decorate! We had the table COVERED in ribbon, buttons, paint, etc. Wish you could have joined us! Love you guys and sending Christmas hugs your way!!!
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