New PJs and a Christmas movie

Our elf, Christopher Popin Kins, brought us some new PJs and a new Christmas movie to watch, Miracle on 34th st.  He got the old and newer version-we watched the newer and hopefully we will watch the older one sometime soon.

Christmas Cookies

We have some friends that we have started to trade kids so we can go out.  So our friends had a Christmas party to go to so their kids came over and spent the night.  We made a whole bunch of cookies and then with them we got to decorate all of them.  It is always one of my kids favorite holiday traditions!  Yes, Christian is on top of the table cutting out Christmas cookies.  I didn't know we had it, but we found a Texas cookie cutter in our Christmas cookie cutters and they each were every excited to decorate the state of Texas and want to go back there soon to visit.

Mighty Minds and some of Piper's projects

All the third grade did a little play called Mighty Minds, which was adorable!  It was about superheroes coming and helping the kids as they take tests and have to do so much school work.  Piper didn't have a speaking part or anything, but had a great time singing all the fun songs!

They also had to build a robot for their class.  It had to roll, light up, look like a person(have all the same body parts, and wear clothes.  So Piper made one last year in 2nd grade and it made it to Virginia with us so we just dressed Rufus up a little bit to make him MOSH.

The 3rd grade also had a day that they were learning about ways to move things.  So the kids brought things from home and had parents come in and help them try to figure a way to get something across the room without hitting the floor.  I think the best was hooking a blown up balloon to something and letting the air out.  It was fun to see these creative mind in action!

Clubhouse

Our kids decided to make a clubhouse out of some boxes.  They even made a flag, pledge, and song to go with their clubhouse.  If you broke the rules you even had to go to jail, which was in our storage closet.  Brian got put in jail for not knowing the password, but the kids let him have his Kindle so it was not much of jail for him.  I love how creative my kids have become!

Gingerbread Houses

We made gingerbread houses one Saturday after Thanksgiving.  It is interesting that the kids can almost do them all by themselves this year.  Piper did do her's by herself, but Christian needed a little help with the frosting.  The kit we got this year had some fondant in it so we could roll out and made shapes-Brian got a great idea to have Santa go splat on the roof so he did it on one side of Piper's house.  We always have fun with this activity

Putting up the Christmas tree

We through out our old tree last year because it had so many lights out so we needed a new tree this year.  I saw Micheal's was open on Thanksgiving day and had their trees 50% off so we decided to head out and try and get one.  When we got to Micheal's there were about 10 people there and we got in and out with a new tree and a few new ornaments.  So we kept out tradition of putting up the Christmas tree on the day after Thanksgiving.  The kids even had a good time playing with the box.  I love seeing all the ornaments our kids have made over the years in preschool and elementary school.  I can't believe how big they are getting

 Christian thinks it is gross to see anyone kiss so we had Piper take this picture and it is one of our favorites!