Friday, November 25, 2011

Personal Christmas Trees

Tonight, while doing some investigative work for the Nativity display, the boys and I found these adorable kid-sized Christmas trees and ornaments. Since my tree won't get put up until after the nativity display, I figured they could each get a small tree to decorate. Plus, all of Hobby Lobby's Christmas stuff is 50% off, so it didn't cost me an arm and a leg!
 This is Jensen's. He chose some cute Christmas clay-figures and lollipops.
 And here is Carson's. He chose candy canes and some winter sea creatures.
Hopefully they have gotten their fill of tree decorating. Because I'm the only one allowed to decorate my tree. :)

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Halloween 2011

Happy Halloween! Carson got to dress up in two different costumes for Halloween this year. At school he got to dress up as a "Storybook Character," so he chose to be the Very Hungry Caterpillar. I made the little caterpillar suit and he colored all the pictures of the food he eats in the book.
 Then we dressed up the boys in their Ninja costumes to go Trick-or-Treating.
 This year we talked a lot about making sure to look people in the eye while they said "thank you." They did pretty well with this. We still need to work on them saying "Trick-or-Treat" instead of "Trunk-or-Treat!"
 And we were lucky enough to find our friend, Lusia, while we were out roaming the neighborhood, because we've taken pictures with her on Halloween for so many years, I stopped counting. And this year we actually got all the kids looking at the camera and smiling! :)
The kids had fun, Mason did really well riding in the stroller, and Dustin and I spent a quiet evening eating all their good candy while watching Dancing with the Stars. Happy Halloween, indeed.