Sunday, December 27, 2015

Christmas Happenings

Lots of  Christmas activities happening here

The girls at their dance performance in a nursing home

Top:  Lexi (green shirt) and Alyse (back middle)
Bottom:  Layla and Alaina back row in red and black (I was trying to capture the scene before this, but it took just as they fell off to sleep)

It's Beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
 
Our frozen Christmas tree stick
We took the rope off and it didn't budge.  No chance of decorating it yet! 
  
During the night it unthawed and in the morning we had a surprisingly HUGE tree.
 The girls and I sewed up new stockings in November and were so excited to hang them up.


I love our Savior tree.  It's full of pictures of the Savior and ornaments with all the different names for the Savior which we put up when we do a random act of kindness.

The downstairs tree which I love because it's full of memories :)
 
After the ward Christmas dinner, Santa came to visit.

Audrey didn't want anything to do with him other than to get close enough to get an orange.


Scott's 7th semester ended after taking 10 finals and the games began!   Instead of Scott staying up to do homework, he played games with us every night until way too late.  This night, Scott overtook the world in Risk at 1 a.m.
 

Layla and Landon played with other games while we played Risk.  Layla made designs with the pieces and Landon played war with the Clue weapons, cannons from Risk, and battleships!

A traditional sleep in under the Christmas tree

Acting out the nativity for Family Home Evening

Audrey the Angel telling the shepherds to Fear Not.
 Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus
 The Wise Men
 {Bloopers!}
the Angel getting her turn on the donkey and Joseph gets blinded by his head band!
the making of Gingerbread Houses


making Sugar Cookies

dipping Oreo Truffles

Audrey tried to get hair out of her eyes with chocolaty fingers :)

frosting Sugar Cookies during Noni and Bompi's visit




I love Christmas traditions!

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