Merry Christmas

Gingerbread House

This year Elsie chose to have our house made into a gingerbread house. (Her dad helped her with the idea.)

It took a bit more planning to get it to come together with the extra roof peeks, so we ended up decorating it on Christmas Eve. Aunt Nette was able to help us, and thank goodness she did. It also took a bit longer than normal to decorate.

Elsie’s Winter Concert

Alstan’s Christmas Concert

Our Family is Fully Vaccinated!

Yes, we ate in a restaurant tonight to celebrate our youngest member being fully vaccinated today!

Cookie Making Weekend

We all had a very full but fun weekend making Christmas cookies! Aunt Nette and Aunt Carrie and her family spent the weekend with us. We enjoyed making cookies, chilling with candy canes, playing games, going to sleep watching Christmas movies, and checking out the candlelight shopping and fireworks downtown. It was so nice  to spend time together doing a holiday activity again this year!

Officially Starting the Christmas Season

Happy Thanksgiving!

Banana Cream Pie

Alstan picked banana cream pie for our Thanksgiving pie this year. Elsie did an amazing job of making it!

Putting up the Christmas Lights

Mom and Elsie wanted to get the lights put up outside on a warmer day, but Alstan didn’t want to do anything Christmas related yet. The temptation of a hot cocoa out of his new mug was more than he could resist. We had to promise not to turn them on until after Thanksgiving though.

Hanging Out with Mom in the Art Room

Mom had a teacher work day, but the kids had off. Elsie packed up some things to entertain her and spent the day at her desk next to mom’s.

Halloween Celebration

Alstan and Elsie were missing their cousins, so we decided to head up to the farm for a “Halloween Celebration”.

Pumpkin Mishap

So, it was pretty windy this morning. When we drove up Elsie noticed her pumpkin was gone. She found it on the porch, but it was cracked pretty bad. Mom had to play pumpkin doctor.

You can hardly tell, right?

Pumpkin Carving