Christmas in a nutshell!

Since I am writing this in March, I am just going to summarize Christmas! We visited the families for Christmas, another long trip across the country, but well worth the effort! We were able to leave earlier and Craig stayed longer than he did last year. We had the Weir annual Christmas party, several other family get togethers, and Lucas was able to spend lots of time with his cousins! He enjoyed unwrapping his presents and made out like a bandit. Christmas was fun and we enjoyed being with our families!

I do have to tell one story. For Christmas we bought Grandmas Nean a bag of Peanut M&M's. We had Lucas give them to Grandma. Several minutes later, Lucas found the bag of M&M's ripped a hole in them, they spilled all over the floor, and as were trying to quickly pick them up, Lucas was quickly shoving handfuls of M&M's in his mouth! Yummy!

Plenty of room to grow!

This has been one of Lucas' favorite things to do! Try on my shoes, he is not quite coordinated enough to try on daddy's shoes, but I am sure that won't keep him from trying!

The Polar Express!

I love our library! The children's department is wonderful, they have story time, and fun activities going on all of the time! At Christmas time they do the Polar Express activity. You have to register for this, and spots usually fill up really fast. They had story time first and read the Polar Express, Lucas sat still for this for about five minutes before he was up and moving around (oh well). At the end of the story they handed out a little pouch with a bell and a token to use at Santa's Workshop! We then took a ride on the trolley around the block and ended up just down the street from the library at "Santa's Workshop." Things did not go well with Santa, Lucas did not enjoy this part at all, though he really enjoy Santa's workshop where they had a bunch of nice toys. Everyone could pick a toy and pay with your token. Lucas wandered around for several minutes, he would pick something up, and a few minutes later find something else that caught his eye! In the end he ended up getting some bounce balls! (Not a surprise.) The really challenge was deciding what kind of ball he wanted because that is what he was interested in was all of the different balls!

Talking on the phone!

I was talking to my mom on the phone the other day, and Lucas decided that it was his turn to have conversation with grandma!

Christmas Cookies!

This seems like the best season to make and decorate cookies! Every year I think, "I am not going to go through the hassle of decorating cookies this year, I just don't have time". But I end up doing it every year, because it is a fun time to decorate cookies. And who doesn't like cookies! However, I was not about to decorate a bunch of cookies by myself, that would have been very tedious and boring, decorating cookies is so much fun when your doing it with friends!

Ginger Bread Houses!

This has become one of our new yearly traditions. We go over to our friends house put together a gingerbread house and decorate them! Craig is usually the one does the putting together, I decorate, and Lucas eats the candy....a lot of candy! It is a lot of fun. Our friend Spencer spent most of the time unwrapping the candy, while our kids kept eating it. It was quite awhile before he realized he was not getting anywhere with unwrapping the candy! I think our house looked pretty good and festive. I look forward to next year when Lucas can help decorate.

Thanksgiving!

On our way home from the Thanksgiving parade, we stopped at Cracker Barrel and had their special Thanksgiving meal! I thought it was pretty yummy. It was nice not to have to cook a really big meal, and then have only three people eat it. Later that evening, at home, we had our friends over for pie, we had eight different kinds of pies, to split between the four of us and three small kids! Plenty of pie! It was a very unique but memorable Thanksgiving!