Following are several miscellaneous pictures from the couple of weeks leading up to Christmas Day.
Early in December, we were able to be a part of our homeschool group's Gingerbread house party. There were pounds and pounds of candy, icing, and loads of fun. Here's Elijah focused on making our house perfect (perfectly tasty). This is also a good shot of our almost finished house. It ended up with a pretzel fence all the way around it.
And here's the taste tester.
Elijah, Isaac, and Joshua with cousins Noah and Drew.
Tree-decorating night. Christmas music playing, lots of fun.
In mid-December, we drove to Chattanooga to meet Jason's family to take a ride on the Polar Express train. Nana got them all matching pajamas and robes. They had chocolate milk during the ride, and got to meet Santa. It was a fun time for us all.
Gotta try on the antlers!
Christmas morning...
Isaac's favorite gift--Nascar movie. Isaac LOVES nascar--so he was jumping for joy when he opened this gift (thanks Lisa :))
And, I just liked this one and wanted to share.
This year, the boys' big gift was a loft, made by Jason, with a lot of help from our friend, Larry. They did an excellent job, matching it almost perfectly with the bed that was already in their room, the bed Jason grew up sleeping in. For a couple of weeks leading up to Christmas, Jason had to work on it in the garage, and since it is almost impossible to do that with 3 little curious boys wanting to know what is going on, we just told them it was a chicken house. I think they starting believing us eventually, but when they ran into their room Christmas morning, they were very surprised and excited. We told them it WAS a chicken house--a bed for our 2 little chickens to sleep.
Here's Jason putting it together Christmas Eve. We had them sleep upstairs in the bonus room in sleeping bags so we could put this together after they went to sleep.
Finally put together and awaiting the boys!
Christmas morning--saving this gift until the end. They loved it!!
Melea, I'm just now catching up on your blog!! I just had to say that Jason did a great job building the loft for the bed and coincidentally, his childhood bed is EXACTLY the same as Jonathan's childhood bed which Will is now sleeping on...too funny! Hope you all are doing well!
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