December 16th we made gingerbread houses. I learned the hard lesson in years past of collapsed house mid project and opted to hot glue the graham crackers together this year. You heard right. Blasphemy or not, I wasn't in a condition to handle crying/screaming tantrums and chose using the glue over not doing the project at all. This year I also searched to find a special gingerbread frosting that worked more like cement. I had no plans in consuming said houses so I was undeterred when the recipe called for raw eggs. The special frosting worked like a charm. Sadly Brodrick missed out on the fun because he fell asleep early. I see a recurring theme of sleeping when candy is involved. This trend my prove beneficial in the future. The older kids and I had a great time putting together our houses and eating candy in the process.
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| sticky hands! |
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| Miles LOVES candy canes! |
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| The finished products. |
Nativity Story:
Our family usually participates with all of our extended family in acting out the Nativity story at our family Christmas party/get together. It didn't happen this year so we decided to do a version at home with our little family.
On December 18th I printed off this little paper puppet nativity and let the kids color the characters and then we cut them out and mounted them on Popsicle sticks.We had a fun time performing the nativity while Tim read the story from the Bible.
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| Funny story about Mary- Amelia added eyelashes and bags under Mary's eyes. When I asked her, "Amelia, did you as the lines under her eyes?" Her reply was, "Mom, she JUST HAD A BABY." Apparently she's caught on to my question on how my friends with new infants are sleeping. It was so funny! |
Lights on Temple Square:
On December 21st, the Friday before Christmas, we went for a visit to Temple Square! It was freezing! On our way to SLC I called the Texas roundhouse in Sandy and got in queue for their call ahead seating. We were at the temple for less than an hour- keep it short and sweet- then drove back toward home. We walked into Texas Round House and didn't have to wait at all, as soon as I gave them our call ahead number they took us back to our table. It worked well since the kids were saying they were hungry even before we got to SLC.
Meal at a Restaurant:
Eating out at a restaurant is something the kids love but we never do unless grandparents are visiting because it is expensive on a graduate student budget. It was definitely a special treat appropriate for the Christmas season. The children were ANGELS. Seriously, I don't think they have ever behaved so well at a restaurant before. It was wonderful to enjoy great food and each other!
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