Christmas Activities

Here are some things keeping us busy through the month of December. The boys have had a lot of fun, and I'm glad there's so much to keep us out of the house!

Kyler telling Santa he wants a Wild Kratts movie for Christmas.

Not surprisingly, Damon wouldn't get near Santa.

However, decorating cookies is serious business!

Kyler's snowman cookie

Radley had frosting everywhere, but he was one happy little boy!

Playing with warm snow (shaving creme & corn starch).

Decorating some Ninjabread cookies that Oma got the boys.

The kids all liked the cookies; the adults were not so impressed!

Damon loved decorating and eating his too.

I think next time we will just use a sugar cookie dough rather than a gingerbread dough, but I love the cookie cutters!

Radley is so funny on the swings these days.  He will just hang there for a pretty long time.

He walked around for a good 5 minutes with these on.  He was making the funniest faces too, but this is the best shot we got!

We found out that there were carriage rides through a shopping complex, and I thought the boys would love it; so I used the carriage rides as bribery to get through family pictures.  Kyler was so pathetically sad that he had to wait for 10 mins for the next carriage ride.

Radley was a little nervous at first, but he seemed to like it after a while.  I was shocked everyone looked at the camera for this.  (It probably turned out better than our real family pictures)!

All Smiles!

Damon taking pictures.

Posing with the horse.

It was a really fun ride.  I love getting to do this kind of thing with the boys!

We got a gingerbread train kit for Christmas from the Kevin Keys family, and we all had a really good time building it.

I couldn't pass up this cheesy face from Kyler!

Radley sneaking in from behind trying to get the candy.  All he wanted to do was eat the candy!

By this point the train had collapsed, but there was still some decorating to do! 

Radley kept looking at me saying 'cheese.'

It didn't take long for the eating portion of the gingerbread house activity to commence.  Damon didn't even waste energy using his hands.

I think he enjoyed it!