ornaments

Christmas Wreaths

i don't have pictures of everyone...but this year i left the ornament gifts COMPLETELY up to the kiddos. they looked and looked atideas and finally decided they wanted to make snowflakes and wreaths. they've made them before but wanted to do a pattern on each and have them completely beaded (unlike in the past when each one only had a few beads). cailey wanted to do a harder craft but i LOVE that they are able to do it on their own so it truly is a gift from them.

more from our snow day...

all the grandkids...and some poppy time! ephram would scream,
"poppy!" whenever he saw him

helicopter time...and marble races

playing new games

mom and i trying out a new appetizer
recipe...we had to roll it up together:)

snow fun in the backyard

icicles and snow angels...my angel

the three biggest spent a lot of their time eating snow...ESPECIALLY braden:)

my girls....and boys

the snow was SUPER powdery and definitely not ideal
for snowman making but daddy was able to help them
build Frosty anyway.

Christmas Unwrapped

trying SO hard to get four good smiles. not easy when
one of them doesn't feel good...not sure why my happy kins wasn't
smiling, though

LOVE this one

bouncy houses and a room FULL of candy and games

LOTS of picture opportunities...

we were able to see both shows they had..Scrooge and The Frosty Show. they were both great! (and different than last year:)

these two actually requested these pics!

ephram's first game of the night. he caught on quickly that if he played the game he'd win candy.

live nativity

biggest pop up book ever and an interactive nativity

there were three rooms full of music. one had a choir singing Christmas carols
in candle light, another had Christmas top 40's (with lots of dancing:), and the third was coffee house style with cookies and hot cocoa.
cookies and hot cocoa

the best one:)

dancing in the coffee house...no one else was dancing but we decided to get things started!

i had such a hard time choosing which pics to use from the night because there were so many good ones. we honestly have a BLAST at Christmas Unwrapped because Crossroads does such a great job with it! i was sick that night so went left early (9:00) compared to last year (10:00).