Random Christmas Pics

Here are some of the pics we have taken!

Good Bye Beanbag!

Today is the last day that Beanbag, our elf, will be with us. Tonight he goes back with Santa. Today when we woke up, there was a note on his from Santa saying that the kids could give him a hug before he left. They were all so happy to get to touch him. It was so great!

Countdown to Christmas days 20-24

We have been a little behind since Yaya and Papaw have gotten here! So today we played catch up!! We did:
Day 20: Drive around an look at Christmas lights-we are going to do this tonight after Church
Day 21: Visit a gingerbread house-we went to the Marriott downtown where they have a giant gingerbread house. The kids loved it! This also fulfilled day #16 which said to donate a toy to toys for tots. I changed this to donate food because we missed the cut off for the toys for tots in our area!

 kinda fuzzy, but they are putting the canned food into the sleigh

The gingerbread house!

Day 22: Make a gingerbread house!  This is one of Keith's favorite things to do!

 E with a mouthfull of gumdrops, she thought they were better eaten than put on the house!!



Day 23: Make Reindeer Food: I found this great idea on....you guessed it....PINTEREST! So mom and I went to work on making these super cute reindeer food holders! I am so happy with how they turned out and the kids loved it!

 Yaya made Evelyn's holder since she was napping!

 Filling the holders with our magic reindeer food!

We hung then on the tree so that Santa can take them to feed the reindeer!

Day 24: Make cookies for Santa!

Day 19

Build a snowman.....WE HAVE NO SNOW!! So we have decided to keep this one out and do it in January or February or whenever we actually have snow!!!

Christmas Countdown day 18

Visit Santa!

Day 17

Todays card said take Christmas pictures in our Christmas shirts!

December 15th

Todays card said make place mats for Christmas Dinner. After talking about this, we all decided that we weren't going to do this! We made name tags for the place settings and the kids though that was enough! So we just skipped this project and decided to watch another Christmas movie-this time it was a marathon! We watched Charlie Brown's Christmas, A chipmunk Christmas, Frosty, Kung Fu Panta Christmas, and Merry Madagascar!

Henrys Christmas Pagent

Ok, so I hope these are all on here, that I have the right character with the right video! This has been a hassle to get all of these videos on here!!! I hope you can see them all and hear then all!! We loved this pageant, it was by far the best one we have been to!

Henry is Santa in the middle

Henry is Santa in the middle

Henry is a King, the third from the right, wearing a brown coat and floppy hat

Henry is the 10 Lords a Leaping, 4th from the end on the right

Henry is Santa

Henry is a King, third from the right

Henry is a king, third from the right

Henry is a king, third from the right

Henry is Santa in the middle

Santa's Special Key

Nana and Papa (Keith's parents) sent the boys a package. They knew the boys had been wondering how Santa was going to get into our house since we did not have a chimney, and so they talked to Santa who gave them a Special key to hang on the door on Christmas eve so he could get in the house. Tyler was so happy he was jumping up and down and said he was going to cry he was so happy!!

 I love Tylers face in this, he was so excited!!!

Notice the door to the garage is now open...Tyler ran out to tell dad all about the key and now Santa could come to our house!!!

Santa came to the Neighborhood!

I was so excited to find out that the fire Dept here also does the neighborhood Santa visits! I was also super excited when our Friends, the Blaszczyk's decided to stay in Newport one more night and came over to have dinner and have the "Twinkies" see Santa too!! The boys were not too sure of Santa and would not go near the sleigh! I, however, LOVED IT!! I am sure if Keith, Mark or Lisa ever tell about it they will tell how I was going outside every few minutes to see if they were coming!! And yes, it was COLD and no, E does not have shoes on!!

MWR Christmas Party

We went to the base MWR Christmas part and had a BLAST!! Keith and the kids make a centerpiece for our table; the kids saw Santa and got gifts and all three played in the bounce houses!

Christmas Countdown Day 14

I found an idea on Pinterest for making a year in review ornament. (have I mentioned how much I LOVE pinterest?!) So today's card said....make a family year in review ornament!! Keith and I had a great time thinking back on all that we did this year! I am very happy with how this turned out! We will be continuing this each year! I cannot wait till we are old and the kids are grown and we can look back as we are decorating our tree and think back on all of the fun we had!

Day 13

Today our card said Sing your Favorite Christmas Song! Tyler picked Jingle Bells and Henry picked Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer! The videos are a little dark, it was the best I could get in my phone!

Christmas Countdown Day 12

Make paper snowflakes! FUN!!! We has some cutting trouble, so daddy helped everyone make their snowflakes. Evelyn even got to join in for this one! They now hang from the beam separating the living room and dining room!