Tis the Season

More holiday fun! Gingerbread houses with good friends. What do you think he is thinking about here? I think I know- he ate everyone of those mints off the house right after these pictures.
G and P made this one together. We used whipped cream containers to keep the graham crackers up which is really great for kids! They turned out super cute.
I took about 5 pictures of H and her buddy M. He looked darling in all of them. This is just one of her many faces in the pictures! So naughty looking. It is usually G with this look on his face.
We also went to Temple Square with friends to see the lights and eat dinner. This is H's little friend M. H has been posing in pictures lately. And for some reason she kept closing her eyes before each picture. Notice her little hip out and her hand was strategically placed.We have loved going to see the lights every year that we have been here. I am grateful to live by so many temples here and to not only see them but go to them often.It was our 10th anniversary this day so I thought we should get a picture of just the two of us. We will be celebrating in January with a fun trip so this was just a little anniversary outing.
Ok, I am not sure if the kids or the snowman is cuter here. The snow fell but started to melt so we rushed everyone outside and they made this super cute snowman. They are going to miss the snow when we are living in Cali.
Every year we do a little nativity. We go all out if you can't tell- with bathrobes, towels and all. We had the wiggliest Mary and Joseph ever this year but they were sure cute when they had their little outfits on. H was an angel this year. She said she thought Mary seemed hard to do so she chose the angel. I was a sheep if you can't tell. I am wearing white and have something fluffy in my hair.
I got G a firetruck vest for his Christmas outfit this year. He LOVED it! He started putting it on over his jammies so I had to get him dressed right after I showed him the vest. So handsome!
I love the dress up Christmas Sunday pictures!
And finally Christmas cookies of course! My sister in law H came and helped us and thanks to my mom we had lots of cookie cutters to choose from. It was fun to use the cookie cutters that I used so many times as a kid.

I gave G his cookie to eat and he said, "take my picture!" What a good boy to know that we document EVERYTHING with pictures!

Making Cookies is so much fun with their Aunt H and these crazy little ones! Lesson learned from this picture- don't tell G to say cheese!

Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and I am so excited for the time we get to spend together as a family the next few days! Other holiday things we've done this year: drank lots of hot chocolate, had Christmas movie afternoons, made chocolate suckers for friends, chocolate covered pretzels, listened to Christmas music non-stop, made some crafts, and tomorrow it's a special breakfast and we make ornaments for each other. It's been a great month!