First of all, whenever you look at pics on my blog and wonder why on earth did I pick the picture where one of the kids eyes are closed or someone has a goofy smile, just remember my kids are the HARDEST kids in the world to get to take a good pic!
The people who owned our house before us left a TON of Christmas decorations! So we decided to use the big bulbs they left and put them on our big pine tree outside. The kids were waiting for their turns on the stairs to go outside with daddy and hang their bulbs.
Our fake little tree is getting more and more full each year with homemade decorations! It takes a little restraint on my part to not move all the homemade ones to the back (I know I'm a bad parent!) but it is SO much fun watching the kids decorate the tree now. They get so into it.
Also, thanks to pinterest I had the idea of making these advent trees and reading a part of the Christmas story from the Bible each night and doing some sort of fun activity or act of service. Wow, it seemed like a good idea until I realized this goes on for 24 days and is really hard to keep up with! The idea needs some work because instead of focusing more on Jesus with the kids, like I was hoping would be the case, the kids became more focused on what they got to do or what was in it for them. Oh well, you live and learn...that's the joy of parenting.
We went to the light parade downtown with some friends from our life group. Everyone bundled up and we brough hot cocoa and snacks and had a blast! Ok, well Trenton felt like he was going to throw up on and off but other then that it was fun. :) The bottom pic is from our Life Group Christmas party. We did a pj party and this sweet fam all came in footy pjs. It was a little hard to take them seriously and come on we all know only certain people can pull off the footy pjs and they did a great job of it. I LOVE our life group (what we call our small groups from church) and am so blessed by these great friends that we get to share life with!
We have had the perfect winter...so far! We had amazing weather until a few weeks before Christmas and then we got a huge snowstorm. We had so much fun playing outside. We continue to love our neighborhood and how all the kids head outside to play together. We took the kids sledding on this pretty big hill and after a good long while we had to drag them away cause it was getting dark. Playing in the snow takes a LOT of work to get everyone ready but it's totally worth it! The kids love it and I love coming back inside to make hot chocolate and all sitting around.
wish we were neighbors:)
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