Christmas Activities

Wow, I did not do a very good job of documenting all of our fun Christmas activities in December. We spent a lot of time with family. Cole and I hosted our ugly sweater and caroling party. As we have for about the last 6 years we went and sang carols at the nursing home. We love doing that. After we had all the family over for nachos.

We also had game night, an adult dinner and movie night, the kids did a gift exchange with their cousins and decorated gingerbread houses with Grandma Dawn and we had a nice Christmas Eve dinner and program at George and Crystal's house.

As far as just our family of 7 we decorated a gingerbread house together and did our own little dollar store gift exchange together and took the kids to see the Smurfs movie (thanks to the $ grandma Dawn gave us for Christmas!)

Here is Claire with her treats from the ward Christmas dinner and party. 

These two are always having fun. Tessa came to me looking like Santa and Dom had to join the fun.

I did some crafting and blogging on my Scientista blog.

We did a little baking, but not nearly enough. Well we had enough goodies in the month, but didn't have time to make treats for the neighbors as I had wanted too. It was such a busy month.

A few days after Christmas we went to the Blazer game with Ryan, Lance and Mile's families. It was a lot of fun. The Blazers put on a good show for us, won the game, and scored over 100 points so we all got free chalupa gift cards. The kids were so excited about that. Something about taking Dominic to this game flipped a switch in him . . .. he is now a fanatic about sports where before we was kind of indifferent to them.