Holiday Fun for the 2nd week in Dec.

The week started out by making a Gingerbread house for family night. The girls begged me to buy the gingerbread house kit at Costco. It was actually pretty easy and turned out pretty good. They had a lot of fun putting it together. Bailey did a lot of the decorating, Ellie ate a lot of candy!

On Wednesday we finally got our tree. It was a pretty warm day and Ryan got home early so it was a good night to pick a tree. We found a good one at the nursery close by our house. It took us Wed. and Thurs. nights to get it all decorated. The kids put the ornaments on and then I had to do a little "rearranging" after they were in bed. Just to make sure we had ornament all over the tree not just in the middle of the front.

On Thursday Ellie had her Christmas program at preschool. Her class wore little halos on their heads and repeated a Christmas poem and sang a little song. She did a good job. She was right behind the microphone stand so that always makes for a lovely photo, at least you can see her better on the video.

Friday night our friends had a Santa party. There quite a few kids there from our ward, so it made it really fun the girls to watch all of their friends get to see Santa. They all sang songs with Santa and then he would reach into his bag and he had a present for each kid. They got to sit on his lap and chat with him for a few minutes and then open their presents. The kids thought it was great, he was a really good Santa. It was a fun party.

Our ward Christmas party was Saturday, it was another fun filled night of Santa, good food and friends. It was a fun week full of Christmas fun. I hope this week is the same. Hope all of you are having a great holiday season so far.