I'm sure you could tell we were sick by just looking at all of this stuff on our kitchen counter! This was from a few weeks ago. I started it with a cold and even had an ear infection, passed it to Ross, and then both girls got sick. Molly wasn't too bad but Lucy ended up missing two days of school due to her cold and fever. It wasn't fun, but I was so thankful to have all of that happen a few weeks before Christmas instead of right at Christmas!
Our elves are so funny! They brought us a butter treet. A butter tree is just that - a tree made out of butter! And since it's butter the tree needed to stay in the refrigerator so they spent their whole day in there. I bet they were cold and ready to move on from that place!
We visited Santa a few weeks ago. Molly was really excited to go and I think Lucy was, but didn't really want to let on that she was excited. She's 10 1/2.......We went to Bass Pro and he is always such a nice Santa! We visited with him, rode the carousel, and took a few pictures. It was a nice time!
We went to Kansas City last weekend for Christmas with Ross' family and it was a really nice time! We went up Friday after school and got there just in time for a delicious steak dinner. Ross' brother and his family came over to visit a bit and have dessert with us. We hadn't visited with them in quite a while so it was nice to catch up.
The next morning we celebrated Christmas with Larry and Wanda and got some fun gifts! Wanda had a big Santa bag that was filled with two presents for each of us that were family gifts and lots of fun! It was very creative and a great idea! She also had a big Nativity calendar with doors to open and had some nice surprises in the boxes for each of us. It was a fun way to give gifts.
We went shopping that afternoon and had Chick fil A for lunch, which the girls loved. We went back to their house and had a pizza dinner before heading home. We were all tired, but it was a very nice Christmas in Kansas City!
I have two caroler Christmas decorations in the basement this year. These carolers were my mom's and I remember them being out at her house when I was growing up. A few years back she let me have them to use at my house. I don't think they were something I really wanted, but took them because I needed something to go along with some other kid decorations I have.
Right now I have them on a side table in the basement and one night when we were watching TV together I told Lucy that the carolers were looking at her. She looked at me and said, "Yeah, they look like this," and made the face in the picture below. I thought it was so, so funny! She's kept making this face off and on this Christmas season and each time it makes me laugh like the first time I saw it!
