Holiday fun!

I always try to do some fun activities in dec. with the kids. (there's never enough time!) There's so many cute little crafts and things to do with kids dec. needs to be longer! We did make our window clingies which we make all year round. They are so fun...I think I enjoy them more than the kids :) We also painted some Christmas pots and made a Christmas collage for the front door. This year we bought one of those gingerbread kits to try (as I picked it up I heard someone say "ya those are cute, but they never work out). Yep didn't quite work out....almost though! the roof just kept slipping cause it was to heavy (probably from all the icing and candy we heaped on :)) Anyways it was fun. We'll probably do that every year as I'm certainly not ambitious enough to make my own gingerbread house. :) Ethan's kindergarden class made little graham cracker houses (which I ALWAYS did when I was a kid....I think my mom has made about a thousand of those) Then of course we had to do the sugar cookies. Well actually this was the first year (cause I couldn't find my cookie cutters that I purposefully put in a place so I wouldn't lose them :)) It was fun and will definately be a tradition. The kids really enjoyed decorating them with their smarties and m&ms. Ethan, Aria and I enjoyed taking a few "night walks" around the neighborhood to see the lights and we did make it downtown to see the lights (with only one fit near the end....not bad for the first time) but boy was it cold the night we went!! There's always so much more you wanna do before Christmas.....there's always next year!!