Random Pics

Baking sugar cookies w/Aunt Laura.

All four kids (see Gentry lying there?) admiring Gma Tigger's Christmas tree.

Another advent calendar activity was going to see Christmas lights. I took the three older kids & it was awesome. I love walking around the lights and listening to Christmas music. The kids loved getting dressed in their 'winter' clothes.

Gpa and Gentry

This is how Dad prefers to watch NFL games - crazy I know. It doesn't look very comfortable but hey, to each his own. For the record - Hadley and Vincent were forcing his legs up there but he was letting them.

Merry Christmas

Rainy Day

I love this rainy weather we've been having! 

Christmas Craft Weekend Getaway

Each Christmas season for the past several years, Aunt Molly takes the kids for the weekend to do Christmas crafts, decorations, the Creche festival, etc. This year was no different. Here they are decorating a gingerbread house:

Lauren just enjoyed eating the candy.
In the morning with Gma's curlers in her hair.
Lunch at Mt. Baldy lodge w/Gma and A.Molly.

Oh Holy Night . . .

Do you think Joseph had a sense of humor? Maybe, but for some reason this is not how I picture the first Christmas:

Slightly irreverent, I know, but such an accurate depiction of Vincent's personality. (By the way, Hadley is Mary and Lauren insisted on being a wise man, not an angel.)

Early Visit From Santa

For our first advent calendar activity we waited out on our front lawn with friends to see Santa. And guess what? He came with Mrs. Claus on a flatbed trailer and parked right in front of our house! It was VERY exciting.

It was a fun night and we're hoping to make it a tradition every year. Thank you Tustin PD!

Christmas on the Mind (Sort of)

Questions I (tried to) answered today:

HADLEY: Mom, when was the first Halloween? The Pilgrims had a first Thanksgiving and Mary and Joseph had a first Christmas so . . .

VINCENT: (In all seriousness) Mom, when was I baby Jesus?