some school Christmas"ness" and a little cheating....

 All three boys took little gift bags with pencils, erasers and candy for their friends at their school Christmas parties this year.

The blue bags were for Van's class.

 

 Gingerbread men were for Petey's class.

 

 Penguins were for Ollie's class.

 

 Ollie brought home this ornament for Mom and Dad wrapt in this paper.

 

 

 Van brought home this ornament.

 

 and these cute little things Van brought home too......they also on our tree.

 

 Petey's gingerbread house.

(Tatum started eating and the dog Sherman finished it already!)

 

 Petey's reindeer.

 

 Last year I baked lots and lots of sugar cookies. The kids gave them to their teachers.

I made the cookies and icing . You can find the recipe here.

This year.....I bought the dough and the icing!

 

A gift for my sister and a Christmas tree...

Van made this tree in school with a Cinnamon stick.

every week, Van's class gets a new poem to read,

this is this week's poem, I thought it was cute.

A Gift For My Sister

Oh, little sister, Beth,

I have no present for yet for you.

I'm at the store in aisle four and

wondering what to do.

The pink and purple boxes are giving me a rash.

I turn and run to aisle one-

that's where I'll spend my cash!

It's finally Christmas morning, Beth,

I hope that you like my gift-

An alien with slimy skin and legs you can move and shift.

So now I'll open my gift-the one you bought for me.

A doll in braids.....let's make a trade.....

I hope you will agree!

Don't worry....

Be Happy!

Ollie is always drawing smiley faces and giving them to me.

This piece of bread with mustard, he gave to me on Sunday.

I thought it was pretty cute.

  ( bread and condiments seem to be his new phase)

It's begining to look at lot like....

Christmas!

 Here is our tree....

 

 I'll share some of our ornaments later.

 

 

 Here is the wreath Josh made for me, he makes one very year.

 

 Here is our outside lights.

Ollie's Christmas tree ornaments...

Here are some ornaments that Ollie has made in school.

a wreath

 

a bell

 

 a train made out of strips of paper.

Snug as a bug....

 click here to see the bedding

I love this bedding from Pottery barn.

It makes me just want to curl up and read a good book while it is snowing outside.

I like the peacocks too, so colorful.

click here to see the pillows

I love these pillows too.

 

click here to see the quilt

and this quilt!

I hope everyone stays warm and has good dreams tonight!

;)

Van's Christmas Program

Last Night was Van's Christmas program at school.

The theme was the North Pole.

Van's class sang about the letters written to Santa.

Here is Van holding up a letter to Santa.

They sang and danced around.

 

All the kids did a great job!

Van had a lot of fun.

 

I am so proud of him.

 

 

 

 

 Here is the family, watching the program.....

 

 Ollie, just wanted to take pictures with the camera.

 

 Petey kept telling me he knew what "thing" Van was doing......but he wouldn't tell me.

 

 Tatum enjoyed dancing to the music and she told me she liked the girls dresses!

 

Daddy.