Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Getting in the Christmas Spirit!

I love the spirit of Christmas! Christmas music would be playing and our tree would be up every November first if it was up to me.

Since Halloween, I've been waking the kids up with Christmas music playing loudly in the mornings. To include Dason, I make sure it's playing when he gets home from school. They've been great sports about it.

Well, I was quite pleased when Richard said he thought it was time to make Christmas cookies this weekend. WOO HOO! My plan worked!


The cookie elves.

Here is the video:

I love that Dason is feeling it!


Check out Spencer's casualty.


Now check out Rick & Sydney's cheeks. Thank goodness the batch was huge!


Dason joining in on the fun. He ate a lot of cookie dough.


Spencer is working on his masterpiece.


According to Spencer, Dad copied his candy cane idea.

On Monday night the kids finished their homework early and were really feeling the Christmas spirit. So I decided to show them how to make popcorn garland. It was their very first time.

Sydney was so scared of poking herself that it took her a long time to get her string filled.


Spencer did really well and only poked himself with the needle twice.


Their finished product. Dason got the 5 foot tree out of the attic so we could set it up and display their garland.

Did I mention that I love Christmas?