Sunday, December 28, 2014

Cameron The Elf

Our beloved elf friend, Cameron, came back this year!  The boys have been SO excited for his return, I think they get more excited about Cameron then about Santa Claus!  Here are some of the places he was over the month of December...




















The last night he left a scavenger hunt for the boys, with little gifts at the end...







Now they are already counting down the days until he comes back!  They get teary eyed saying goodbye to him.  Me?  I won't miss his messes  :) 

Friday, December 26, 2014

Gingerbread Houses and Christmas Eve!

The other day Jackson begged me to play Battleship with him (NOT my favorite game) but I did...
 
And I beat him...hahahaha Jackson HATES to lose and this will be good blackmail later  :)
We decorated gingerbread houses...










I did my first solo turkey dinner Christmas Eve.  Other than accidentally pouring all my broth for my gravy (six hours of boiling chicken parts and seasonings) down the drain, it turned out pretty good!

Christmas Eve means the boys get to open their new jammies and ornaments from Grandma and Grandpa Morrill!  They were super excited and LOVED their one piece jammies...
New ornaments from Great Wolf Lodge...
 
 
Putting cookies and celery out for Santa and the reindeer (we were out of carrots but I convinced Tyce that the reindeer like celery also)...
Christmas Day post coming soon!

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Bull Run Lights Festival

One of the boys favorite Christmas traditions is going to the Bull Run Lights Festival.  This is the 5th year in a row that we have gone!  We get treats at 7-11, eat them in the car (a once a year occurrence), and drive through the beautiful lights.  At the end we get them each an unlimited rides wrist band and they play until it closes! 
 
Here are some pics from the night...












Tyce had his winter concert at school where he sang his little heart out... 
Sunday morning snuggles with daddy and Brody learning about how the NFL playoffs work...
 
Our friends invited us to go roller skating and it was the boys first time!  Tyce hated it and wanted to leave.  Josh was very worried about falling and people seeing him so it took him a while to get off the walker thing.  Jackson was super determined and got pretty good pretty fast!  The twins did NOT want to leave and woke up asking to go back!  I will have to find a sitter for Tyce next time because he is NOT interested!!  Haha, punk...
 
I couldn't skate because of my foot so Seiko helped Tyce...





 
MY favorite family Christmas tradition is making goody plates and going caroling to our friends.  This year we picked 10 families to give treats and sing to and all but 2 were home.  The highlight was when Tyce asked to do a solo singing the We All Like Figgy Pudding verse of We Wish You a Merry Christmas!  Love his fun outgoing personality!