Christmas!

Santa visited our house!

Jack got a remote control car

Luke got a bike 

And Kate got a kitchen set

We had a yummy breakfast and everybody spent the day playing with toys. 

We were able to Skype with Aunt Sass in Argentina. 

Dallin fried up a turkey and we had quite the spread for Christmas dinner. 

We snuck in some time outside before the rain hit. 

It was a very merry Christmas!

Twas the Night Before Christmas

After a tasty dinner of gumbo on Christmas Eve, the kids opened up their Christmas pajamas. 

Jack read us The Night Before Christmas 

Luke was both excited and nervous for Santa. 

While Dallun read the nativity story from the Bible, Kate got her nativity set to demonstrate. 

 

We sang Christmas carols, got out snacks for Santa and the reindeer, and then settled in for It's A Wonderful Life before our long winter's nap. 

Twas the Week Before Christmas

We checked out Christmas books at the library 

We baked sugar cookies

We decorated sugar cookies 

Grammy and Gramp came for a visit so of course we had to have a photo shoot in Grammy's glasses. 

We played some Christmas tunes on the piano 

Each night in December we opened a present which was a book. We enjoyed lots of great Christmas books 

Cabin Fun

A few months ago I won a giveaway on Facebook for a weekend at the Cabins of Horseshoe Hills in Nachotiches. We finally made it up there and it was amazing!

There are six cabins and they are all super cute. 

There is a beautiful view of the river from our back deck. 

Jack asked, "Can we go out and admire the beautiful view?"

We spent our first evening by the fire, playing board games. 

The kids loved playing together c

During the day, we were busy! We went fishing 

Played in the leaves 

Went for a hike 

Fed the donkeys 

Visited the horses 

Went out on the canoe 

And fished some more 

Nachidoches also has a beautiful Christmas festival with a bustling downtown full of lights 

And they put on one awesome firework show. 

It was a great weekend, but we were all exhausted by the end. 

Jack's Busy Day

This week has been nonstop fun for Jack. On Thursday his class had their Christmas party and the smile never left his face. 

They decorated cookies and made reindeer food. 

They made each other into snowmen using toilet paper. 

They had a coloring book gift exchange. He had an awesome time!

That night his art class had an art show at the library. Their work has been on display there all week. 

Their teacher gave them sketch pads for Christmas and there were lots of snacks. 

Here is Jack with his awesome elf. 

He loves art class!