Squadron Christmas Party

Our squadron hosted a fun holiday party for the kids. There were lots of crafts set up for them and also bouncy houses. Santa Claus also came to visit with his miniature reindeer :)

 

This was as close to Santa as Cohen got all season. 

Scott and his boss thought it would be funny to sit on Santa's lap too!

Ugly Sweater Party

 We went to an Ugly Sweater Party the first weekend of December and had a lot of fun. The kids didn't really participate but Bryton wanted to wear a fun hat :)

Random Christmas fun

Cohen loves making hot chocolate with lots of marshmallows!

We worked in a few Christmas crafts into our after school schedules.

Scott enjoyed doing the Advent activities with the boys every night.

Bryton went to a party at the trampoline place during the holidays. He always has so much fun there.

Tree decorating

The three boys were in charge of getting the tree all ready for lights. I put the lights on it and then we all worked together to get the ornaments put on it. Decorating the tree together is one of my favorite things to do as a family. We turn on the Christmas music, drink hot chocolate and talk about all of our favorite ornaments. It is always so much fun. This year our tree was a bit bottom heavy with ornaments, but the boys had so much fun helping!  

 

Christmas tree shopping

 I say I want to take your picture and this is what I get from them....

 I love the day after Thanksgiving tradition we have started of going to pick out our Christmas tree. It is so much fun to go through all the options of what might look good in our living room. We have agreed that this year's tree has the most character in terms of shape...it looked a lot more symmetrical before they prepared it for us to bring home :)

 The tree farm we go to has lots of fun things to do for the kids. We made a whole morning of it. The funny part of our day was when our tree was on the ground waiting for us to get the truck, a dog of another customer lifted its leg on it. Lovely, right?! We had just spent 45 minutes on letting the boys pick out a tree, and now a dog peed on it! It definitely put a spin on our day, but we took it home and washed it down to prevent any extra odors from joining us for the holidays :)

Thanksgiving

 School Thanksgiving Feast

 Making a peanut butter pie!

 My three turkeys :)

  Celebrating Thanksgiving together since 1998 :)

 Scott got camera happy while I was finishing up the meal :)

Pena Adobe

 We had a Saturday with no plans....amazing! It was beautiful outside and so we headed to Pena Adobe to go walk the trails around the lake.  There were geese everywhere and Cohen loved being right in the middle of them.

  The boys threw rocks and sticks forever.

 B has taught himself to swing at school. He was showing off his skills at the little park by the lake.

My three boys...doesn't get much better!