Fun Things Leading up to Christmas

Oh, the wonderful Christmas Programs. This was Abbi's first year and I was surprised that she sang out and was not shy.
Singing Jingle Bells with their bells a ringing, it was cute.

John loves to sing and is good at it. In one of the songs they sang all of the kids must have forgot the words, but their John was singing out nice and loud. It was as if he had a solo.

In this next picture Jessica was not too happy to see the camera.

With Christmas come all of the fun activities before hand. One of my favorites is the baking that we do and of course you have to make a gingerbread house. Now don't get all excited thinking that I made this completely on my own. My mom knew how busy I was and thought that making a gingerbread house would be a fun project for the kids and I to make. So, she bought a kit and we just had to put it together and decorate it.

The kids were so proud of the gingerbread house they made. I helped a little, but they did the decorating.





Christmas Eve we were at my mom's house. We did the same thing we always do. We eat, play games, sing songs, and enjoy one an others company. The kids always open on present Christmas Eve. This is of course the highlight of their night. This year Matt invited three of his buddies from work. They are all single guys with no family around. I was glad that Matt invited them so they would not be alone on Christmas Eve. So that this post does not end up being too long I will post pictures of Christmas Eve with pictures from Christmas day.