Christmas in Pictures

Let's start with Christmas cookie making!  Every year we make lemon cookies.  We shape them, paint them, and bake them.  It's a fun tradition!

 Rory got a bit obsessed with making Captain America cookies and built herself an army.  Then she ate them all!  I think we had one pan of actual Christmas cookies.  Besides the Captain America pan, we had an animal pan, and a Percy Jackson series pan.  All I know is that I just kept making gingerbread man shapes.  :)

I've always wanted to make our own peg doll Nativity.  I actually did it this year!  Marley did the angel, Jesus, made the manger, and the shepherds' staffs, and sheep! 

Our goofy tree picture in Christmas jammies.  I love Kevin in this!

We did our secret Santa pictures first.  We all got nerf guns from K'lyn and had a nerf gun fight.  Aunt Paula got trapped in the crossfire.

Santa came!

Stockings and church Christmas morning.

Grandma and Grandpa's.

Playing with new toys.

We actually have room to host family!  I made sure to take pictures for Papa's birthday calendar next year.  ;)

Our angel of the pageant!

It has all gone by so fast, and I'm not ready for break to be over.  Kevin and I slept in until 830a this morning!  I cannot tell you the last time that happened, but it's been YEARS.  We're all hanging out doing a bunch of nothing, and it's been great.  School starts back up next week.  UGH!  Before that, we have a birthday boy to think about.  Stay tuned and MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Playing Catch Up

 Well, it has been far too long.  Sorry for the slacking.  Once the holidays roll around, I tend to get a little busy.  Since I have lots of pics and lots to catch up on, I'm just going to roll film and explain on the way.  That's more fun anyway.

Logan finished his cross country season with a celebratory dinner at Red Lobster of course.  

Kevin and I took our kids and some from our old co-op to the annual retreat last month.  It was an early morning and lots of driving, but totally worth it.  

Kevin has literally given me every decoration I could want or dream of this Christmas, even though it costs money.  

Thanksgiving came and went.  This photo was everyone mid-bite.

Lego Advent calendars.  Even K'lyn got one, but she hasn't been keeping up with it.

St. Nick made his appearance December 6th as always.  I love that the shoes were found in front of the fireplace this year.

Marley asked to be an angel for the upcoming Christmas pageant, and they made her Angel Gabriel!  She's so excited to have lines (that she's already memorized).

My mom "blowing" out her candles for her birthday.  

I was trying to experiment with K'lyn in taking pictures to see if you could tell whether we were smiling or not.  Considering you can hardly see my eyes when I smile, I think that's the giveaway.  

Decorating the tree!

The OGs!

Kevin keeps track on his phone whose turn it is to put the angel on top of the tree.  This year was Logan.

I LOVE IT!

Since K'lyn had a COVID scare for her birthday (she was negative), we couldn't do her birthday. We finally got around to it.  The funniest thing about this pic is Logan's reflection in the window behind K'lyn.  He photo bombed by his reflection.  

K'lyn got to bring a lot of pottery for us to paint for Christmas.  We're all struggling with our pieces while K'lyn pops out this mosaic Christmas tree.  Ah, to be so talented.  

I love finding these three getting along these days.  It does my heart good.

Halloween Fun!

Halloween was very different this year for a couple reasons.  Rory went to spend it with her friends back in MD.  Ugh that drive.  Anyway, they invited Marley too, but there was no way I was going to make that trip in the middle of the night in case she got scared and wanted to come home.  Besides Marley has always dreamed of giving candy away on Halloween.  Our old house never got any trick or treaters because we were on a busy road.  Our new home is a completely different story.  We're in a cul-de-sac, and our town said if we wanted to trick or treat, we could.  We weren't expecting many kids, and we were wrong!  We had 75+, and Marley got to trick or treat and come back and give candy out.  There were so many kids, that she ended up giving away what she had just gotten.  At least now we know for next year!  

The night before Halloween, Logan had a costume party.  Here was his costume, a plague doctor.

 I had no idea what this was until I looked up the costume to order it.  He totally rocked it, and he was able to dress warmly since the party was mostly outside.  He had a good time, and I'm glad he's branching out.  

For Marley's dance class, the teacher told them to come dressed up.  She didn't want to dance in her Antman costume, so she came up with this gem of an outfit.

This was her Antman costume.  While she was trick or treating, she saw a 4yo boy dressed as Captain America.  When she passed him he said, "Hey Antman!," and Marley said, "Hey Captain America!"  It must have been so cute!

After all that was said and done, we finally made it to the pumpkin patch for some fun.  This place had the jumping pillow, the pumpkin cannon, and even pig races.  We had a great time.  Here are some pics.

Let me tell you about this wall o' fun for Logan.  It took so much patience, and he finally did it.  I got the finish on video.

It was a great time, and I'm glad we made it.  We were rained out for the original date this was planned, and this was the last day they were open.  It was a fabulous Halloween, and now that I know I need to buy tons more candy for the neighborhood kids, I'll be better prepared next year.