Christmas Gingerbread Houses

SOOOO... instead of buying the Gingerbread House kit (which I am HORRIBLE at putting together), we decided to build our own - an idea we got from Paula B. - THANKS!

Old boxes with graham crackers glued on top... lots of icing... and leftover Halloween candy.

A FUN time with HOURS of work put into it!!

Here is Cooper in the beginning:

Lexi starting her decorating:

UH OH: we had an icing malfunction:


Lexi made a club house for Mr. C

Cooper made a castle with a moat and prisoners - ha ha ha...

The kids decided to give their elves their gingerbread houses...

So,.. on Christmas Eve night, the elves took them to the North Pole.

I really hope they enjoyed them!

Shining Star Christmas Party

Our Shining Star Christmas Party:

Me & Lexi

Me & my co-director, CP

I HAD to post this pic to show off my FESTIVE socks :)

1/2 of Prayer Group

Here is 1/2 of my prayer group for our Christmas party in our jammies!!

Walk Through Bethlehem

A local church puts on an AMAZING Christmas program where the re-create the city of Bethlehem... we try to go every year!!

The kids get to see and pet and donkey:

They do many things that the people of Bethlehem would have done, like:

Make pottery:

Basket Weaving:



Hearing stories while making a rope:

Entering the gates of Bethlehem to sign the census:

Cooper's Elf - Billy

WII Bowling Family night

Every now and then, we ahve a night with NOTHING to do - FAMILY Wii Night is BORN!

See Lexi's elf behind her...

Cooper is REALLY in to it!

Even Crickett gets in on the fun.

OH SILLY ELVES

We have elves that Santa brings to our house to keep a close eye on the kiddos.

Their names are: Sally & Billy and they get into some CRAZY fun!

For intance: on this night, they got an old rope light strnd and fixed it!

They got all wrapped up in it ;)

CUTE!

North Pole Flyer

Our Elves have come back!!

Pictures to come!

But... they got us a tickets to the North Pole Flyer... it was SUPER fun!

Here is our adventure:

We boarded a train in Cedar Park...

The windows were fogged over, so we got to play hang man:

Sibling LOVE!

Gingerbread cookies that...

Mrs. Clause passed out!

Santa came to visit!!

All the kids got a train whistle and some hot chocolate.

CHEERS to hot chocolate!

It was a LONG night but LOTS of fun!

The Watts Visit!

We got the pleasure of having Julie & the Boys over!

Cousin Julie & me

Austin, Cooper, & Will

Christmas Tree - 2009

These pictures are backwards and I can't switch them... SO...

here's the story backwards...

GOOD JOB Cooper!!

This was his very first year to successfully do the task!

Cooper's year to put the star on the tree:

Our decorated Christmas Tree:

December 2009 - PEACE SHIRTS

At the mall, we bought CUTE peace shirts...

The kids LOVE them!

December 2009 - Sweeny

We went to Sweeny in December and got to spend time with the cousins!

We went to the movies and saw: Planet 51

Pretty Funny

We also ran into Santa.

This is the best pic I took of my two...

All 4...

Talking to Santa


We did buy some pictures... but I can't get them on here...
The kids though were SO excited to see Santa...

December 2009 - Baking?

Sooo.... I do not remember what what going on this day... but, I took pictures, so it must have been important. OR - I thought my eye make-up looked really good! ha ha ha....

Me & Clarence

Cooper & Lex

Me & Cooper

Lexi making something...

Annie Show at the Palace

Some of Lexi's friends joined us for a musical showing of Annie at the Palace...

a local theater where Lexi took Summer camp.

We were VERY impressed and had a WONDERFUL time!!

The mommies:

The girls in the theater:

We had a FUN time!!

It was SOOOOO good :)

After leaving the theater, ALL of the girls were ready for Dramam Camp!

November Pre-School Program

Cooper's Pre-School put on a SUPER cute Thanksgiving program!

Cooper sang really BIG - it was adorable!!

Here is Cooper with his good friend - Curtis :)

We got to enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving Feast!

Cousin Fun!

We got to have some FUN play time with the cousins!!

This is the boys idea of posing for the camera.

The girls dancing like crazy!

One group picture - PEACE!

November 2009

I am SO far behind on blogging... between being a busy director and keeping up with the kids,... our hands have been full!!

Here is my attempt to get caught up:

Lexi and Bailey.... they were CRAZY this night...

Eating ice cream even got out of control!

Awards ceremony:

Lexi with Ms. Seals

Cooper's there to support his big sis!