Christmas Spirit

The last few weeks we've been doing a few fun Christmas activities.  It's been a while since I lived in California for Christmas, so I'm used to seeing snow and it being freezing.  I'm back in warm country and we get to go the beach and walk around without freezing toes.  Here are some festivities we've been enjoying.

We pulled out the girl's little white Christmas Tree and decorated it for a festive room

Downtown was having the Tree Lighting and lots of fun Christmas things.  They had a Nativity, school bands, dancing, hat making, free photo ops, Santa and Snow!

Chloe asked Santa for a Two Wheeler Scooter. (A Razor Scooter)

Delilah told Santa she wanted decorations.  A few days later we watched the movie ELF and the kid in the movie got a skateboard from Santa.  I asked Chloe if she still wanted decorations for Christmas or if she wanted something else? Delilah said,"I think I want something else.  Like toys or something?"

A package came in the mail and it was a cool paint yourself Nativity set.  Chloe is waaaay into the Nativity.  She has a Playmobil version she can't wait to get out every year.  Since the kids love to draw and paint this was a super fun Family Home Evening activity

I baked my first Gingerbread house this year.  I did pretty good.  Except it's so humid here the Gingerbread was so soft, the roof ended up falling off the side.  I also had some issues with the frosting.  Oh well Chloe did a great job decorating.  She was actually very artsy.  I was thinking it was just gonna be a big candy mess.

At the last second we decided to have a Christmas Party.  We invited our friends over for the fun.  We had all kinds of soups and yummy snacks.  My friend brought some fun games and we had a kid gift exchange and an adult white elephant gift exchange.  Then we finished the night with the men playing Rock Band.  Merry Christmas everyone!

Janey and Heidi looking pretty in my kitchen

 The gamers

 The little ones

 The Couples:

 Jason and Janey Preese

 Maren and Nate Broadbent

 Paul and Heidi Broadbent

 Richard and Shannon Anderson

The Hosts

 Freeborn and Jason

 Gerrit and Paul

 Rock Band Sesh