Christmastime Friends Fun

During the week leading up to Christmas, the twins took a class called "Littlest Elves Workshop" where they made hand wreaths and these cute elf masks.  Kelly stopped by to say hello and delivered stockings full of goodies including reindeer antlers for the boys.  Angie sent stockings and gifts that I let the boys open around 4 PM every day.  These gifts saved my sanity!

Christmas Cookies

 

The boys and I made cookies this afternoon for Santa Claus.  I discovered a new super easy recipe:  3 eggs, 1/2 cup oil, one cake box.  Best cookies!  Frost them and even yummier!  I also baked some of the peanut butter cup cookie dough we bought from Carson's school.  This was definitely my kind of baking day.  

Visit to Santa

Date Night with Big C

A game before dinner while waiting for our table.

Watching the previews.

Credits rolling.  Cute movie!  We all enjoyed it.

 We decided to take Carson out with us on date night since he rarely gets any alone time with us.  We had a yummy dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory, then saw Disney's Tangled in 3D.  So much fun for all three of us to watch a movie in 3D.  I think the only movie I've ever watched in 3D was Captain Eo at Disneyland.

*New* Lego Table

I have a new favorite blog I plan to follow called IKEA hackers, where people submit entries on how they've repurposed or improved IKEA products.  I got this idea off the site for making a Lego table.  The boys already had the Lego bases and we have a few IKEA Lacks tables already, so this was meant to be.  The boards stay in place with sticky putty, so the table isn't ruined and the boards won't move around.  We all love this!!

Baby Jesus Count

Since Carson didn't have school last Monday, and I was subbing that day, he was able to attend his old Kindergarten, where the twins attend Pre-K.  Last year, when all three were regular attenders, our Baby Jesus Count got up to 12, I believe.  This year, we are at 8, thanks to two crafts done on that Monday.  Here are the crafts from last Monday with our manger scene Baby Jesus.

Builder Boys

This is how we spent much of Saturday morning.  We were all up at 6:45 AM that day, ready to build.