December Catch-up

Some stuff from December that I forgot to post:

We got the idea off of a friends blog to wrap all of our Christmas stories this year.  It went really well and I believe will be a new Wallace family tradition.  You number the books and the kids get to open one every night as a countdown to Christmas.  An easy, cheap advent calendar!  Someone I told about this thought that I went out and bought 25 new Chrismas stories, to which I said, “Heavens No!” Just wrap up all of your old ones.  The kids loved it!

Making Christmas cookies (a giant disaster- but fun!)

 

The first snowfall of the year here in P-rice.  (and apparently the last……)

The house we are renting here has an incredibly long driveway.  We spent hours trying to shovel it, highly unsuccessfully.  A kind neighbor came over afterwards and blew it all away with his snowblower in about 5 minutes.  We REALLY need to invest in one.

Noodle lost two more teeth this month, leaving him with the classic “all I want for Christmas is my two front teeth” smile!

 

Kenni was a winner at the elementary school’s annual “Christmas hat parade”. I was informed about this event the night before the parade around 8:30 (of course)- so the only thing we could think of on such short notice was to glue fake Christmas presents all over her lovely hat.  Apparently it was a hit because she came home with a prize.

 

And last but not least we had the annual Lewis family Christmas party at my mom’s house the weekend before Christmas.  The Lewis’ are my cousins on my mom’s side of the family, and after Grandma Lewis passed away, we weren’t sure if we would ever get to see those cousins anymore, so I am so grateful to my parents for continuing to hold this humongous event.  The big man himself always makes an appearance, and my kids look forward to it all year.

Smurfy was my favorite.  It took a long time for them to call his name, but when he finally heard it, he leapt up and started dancing around like he had just been chosen for the Price is Right!

Baby J was NOT a fan.  Luckily I got this photo before she began wailing.

Ha Ha!  Yes, after 12 years with our family, our dog Molly got her first opportunity to sit on Santa’s lap.  Since we were staying with my parents for the weekend, she happened to be there with us and I thought it would be funny to put her on Santa’s lap.  Luckily, Santa didn’t seem to mind. Awwww…….