This year the boys have had a couple of chances at making some Christmas crafts. I love doing crafts...but not when my house looks like a bomb went off! So this year the house is in better shape, and the craft supplies came out. After seeing how much fun the boys had, not to mention how serious they were in planning their creations, I felt bad that it has been so long that they had free reign to be creative!
We went to a craft fair and the boys had a blast! I only wish we were able to spend more time there since it was a short fair, and we got there late. I planned on taking pictures, but after pulling out my camera to snap the first one of the day I got that lovely little message "no card" flashing on my screen. Sigh.
This was Aubrey's craft gift to me. I told him that he had glued two large stars and 8 smaller stars onto his 'wreath'...which is how many people are in our family. He didn't plan it that way.
Merida wanted in on the crafting as well. She just likes to spend her time cutting things up!
We had planned on making a new Jesse tree for our Jesse tree ornaments. That hasn't happened. So each night I pull out the ornaments that we have read stories to and place them on a couch cushion (the ornaments are made of felt so they kind of stick up there).
Moira was in her second play, A Christmas Carol. We saw it last night, and they did an amazing job. Moira was Mrs. Fezziwig. Here she is after I did her hair. Thank goodness for youtube!
The hairstyle she choose worked great for the time period, and was easy to do. She said she's just happy that she doesn't live back then, and having to do her hair like that everyday! Ha, ha.
There is a family, over the river and through the woods, that puts on an amazing light display for Christmas. They get dressed as Mr. and Mrs. Claus and hand out candy to the people who come by. This year Isabella went over and asked if they would like a Christmas pony to accompany them on some nights. They were delighted to have the pony over. Isabella went all out decking Olaf out in Christmas attire. She had put bells on all of his feet, except that he ATE the front ones off!! He didn't actually swallow them, but apparently he wasn't fond of them.
Since we don't have a way to transport the pony, Isabella needed to walk him over and Saoirse went with her so she wouldn't be walking alone.
Isabella had Olaf doing some tricks. Here she is getting him to smile (though I didn't catch the smile on camera).
New to their display was this snowman shooting "snow". The boys were thrilled, even if the 'snow' was just bubbles! They spent a lot of time hanging out with that snowman.
If they weren't with the snowman, then you could find them by the fire roasting marshmallows. The couple who does this has a fire, sticks for marshmallows, bags of marshmallows, and...
she made hot cocoa for all of my kids! Here Isabella is telling her pony that the hot cocoa was NOT for him.
Yeah, that didn't last long! He got a first sip, which flew him for a loop, since it was hot. I wish I had that on camera. Bella thought that would dissuade him, but not a chance. He drank every last drop!!
A group shot. Moira was at her play, and Flannery was home not feeling well.
The crew with Santa.
It has been unseasonably warm here, and yesterday for the Christmas parade it was a whopping 75* out! The parade was fun. The boy's whole reason for being there was to see how much candy they could walk away with. The baby was in love with every dog that went by....please, NO, not *another* animal lover ;-P We got home, hot and tired.
But there was some work to be done. We have started pulling up carpet. We seem to have a serious mold problem in our house. The carpets are not the cause, but I can assure you they are only adding to the problem. Since that is something we can actually work on, that is what we did. I was quite surprised by the amount of work Jonah did! That kid really and truly worked and worked and worked until the job was done! He moved furniture in and out, he pulled up staples, threw carpeting out the window, vacuumed, etc. The other boys helped as well, but here and there. Jonah was like the Energizer Bunny! One room done, as far as the carpet up. I have a bunch of things I want to wash before putting it back in the room. I need to find my diffuser, I had just seen it somewhere, so I can start diffusing Thieves oil.
Praying we will slowly start to see an improvement in how we are feeling.
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