Christmas lunch Day 5

We went with a nativity theme today, plus the pringles because heck the boys like them.  I was rather proud of myself for thinking to put the animal cracker cookies in.

 So, this is what the boys ate at school.

But this is what they saw when they opened up the lunch bag...all wrapped up and ready for Christmas break to begin.

Its SNOWING!!!!!! and Christmas lunch Day 4

This picture does not do it justice!  The snowflakes are big and beautiful and there are lots and lots of them.  YEAH!!!!!

Snow means water for our lake, yes!  It means yummy snow ice-cream to eat after school with the boys.   Forts to build and snowball fights to keep happy instead of turn ugly.  We love it.  We even had snow-flake pancakes this morning to encourage the snow to come down.  It worked!

 And yes, I planned this lunch perfectly.  Snow!  The water bottle is my favorite, a melted snowman.

Christmas lunch Day 3

Rudolph!

 Kids make the holidays more fun.

Christmas lunch Day 2

Nutcrackers!

 So much fun!

Fun Christmas food

Just for fun this year I am deciding to make some fun, festive food for the kids this week.

Sunday morning they all had rudolph waffles.  Super fun

 Christmas lunch Day 1: Christmas tree theme.  I think they might be excited for lunch this week.

The sleepover

Cousins can be so much fun, and so loud when they are all together.  This years sleep over was fun for the boys.  Spencer even joined us this year.  When we picked them up they got to go to Cabella's and lucked out by seeing Santa and going to a shooting range for free.  Wahoo!

 When they got home we had dinner and fun robot cupcakes.

 They set up "dark town" and had fun playing together.  There may have also been a bit of bickering when part of dark town was destroyed and had to be rebuilt.

As was mentioned, cousins can sometimes be loud and certain boys needed some alone time.  At least they were happy together for the most part.

We also let the kids dye eggs for the fun of it.  Never a dull moment at the sleepover.

A busy time of year

I do not feel like I have been that busy, but day to day life has gotten in the way of keeping updated.  November has been full of a lot of projects for Diedre.  Sometimes I wonder why I conjure up so many different projects for myself.  Life would have less sewing and cleaning up if I did not have so many ideas floating around in my head. 

So, what else did November bring?  November brings one of my favorite times of year, Thanksgiving and birthdays!  We as a family did our turkey family and it was awesome as usual.

                                      

Rob always has a vision for his turkey.  I think this year he was going for the punk turkey look.  It was great!  My turkey was lucky to get any feathers, Peter was stealing them all for his own purposes, none of which involved gluing them into the pinecone.

Caleb is always the King of Turkeys, with lots of feathers and pizzaz.  

In November we also had our Pie Party which was delicious and super fun.  We did lots of homework, tried to get some reading done, hung out with friends and family, ate yummy food for our birthdays, and did a bunch of sewing for some fun Christmas presents. 

 Also included were cute kids.  Haley who loves to pick flowers and then tear them apart for her own special cakes that she makes.  Haley can also be found spinning around to either the music playing from the radio or in her own head.  William got over the foot in a boot thing and now is happily jumping on two feet.  Peter is back into playing football with his stuffed animals and can be found at anytime setting up a game with his toys and alerting me of the score.

                                      

And cool man Caleb continues to be the master of lego building.  Seen here is his Forbidden Forest from Harry Potter.  Family is awesome and time together can be fun, on edge at times, and always an adventure.  Now on to December!