Josiah's favorite ice cream is mint chocolate chip, so he was particularly excited about the candy cane stirring the hot chocolate!
This is Jacob being taught how to "sip" hot chocolate!!!
Working on the gingerbread house....
Boys LOVED the decorating part. Josiah had hoped it would look just like the one on the box, but alas.....Next year, I'm sticking to my graham cracker houses...much easier, just as fun for the kids.
Can't remember why Jacob was in a mood at this point, but he was!!! i think it had something to do with wanting to EAT the decorations....
The finished product
Making the applesauce ornaments...thanks Heidi!
Jacob hung all of his in a cluster...he likes to be able to go see all of them at the same time, I suppose!
This is Josiah next to his reindeer ornament...he had watched Rudolph for the first time that morning, and had declared reindeer to be his favorite animal!
Boys helping with the Christmas baking...
The best part of helping is the licking of the fingers....(at which point they were done helping!)Oh, we just enjoyed ourselves so much this past weekend!!! It was our only weekend of the month with absolutely NOTHING scheduled!!! We had a great time just being together - the five of us - and doing some very fun, Christmas things. We made some applesauce and cinnamon ornaments (very fun, easy, MESSY, and smells GREAT!), a gingerbread house (first attempt - bit of an icing issue, but kids LOVED it), started the Christmas baking (personal favorite!), had our first hot chocolate of the season (complete with marshmallows and candy canes to stir), and watched a Christmas movie together on Sunday night. Other than the Titans devastating loss on Sunday afternoon, it was a great weekend.
Tonight starts the first night of 11 of something on the calendar - school concerts, christmas parties, meetings at church, band practice, etc, etc. And so it IS the most wonderful time of the year, but very busy. Keep reminding myself about what our REAL focus is to be this time of year....
8 comments:
Wow - what a fun and yummy weekend. We don't have any of those free weekends in December. I'd love the recipe for the applesauce ornaments - sounds like a fun thing to do with Erin.
Love the family fun! I've been wanting to do a gingerbread house too, hopefully this weekend!
What an awesome weekend! Sounds like lots of fun. Gingerbread houses are never easy...I don't know how anybody gets them to look "perfect." I don't think it really matters, though...all the kids really want to do is munch on it:)
What a GREAT weekend, for sure!! It is SOO true, that weekends like this, truly are the BEST!! And the ones that the children remember the most!! Their house looks wonderful, and we can't wait to see all of the beautiful ornaments ya'll made on Thursday...we're so excited to come to the Schrodt house this week!! :)
Applesauce cookies?! I never did gingerbread houses growing up, but the look like so much fun. Our plate is full this year, so maybe next year!!
i also would love the recipe for the applesauce ornaments. maybe we can do that this weekend, our free weekend! :) looks like you had a lot of fun doing very fun family activities! i'm looking forward to all of that THIS weekend. hope your week and your weekend goes smoothly as I know it will be very busy! :) wish i could be there on Thursday for the Happy Birthday Jesus party! Oh, love the greenery with lights on your banisters b/w the kitchen and living room! very pretty! i've got to work in seeing the decorations one year! ;)
What a sticky goopy fun time!! We did the ginger bread house the other day at Michele's and the kids loved eating the candy and her and I were doing all we could to keep the roof from sliding off and succeeded until the very end and SPLAT the whole thing fell apart just when we thought we had it going on. Glad to see your stayed together...just melted a little:)
What great family fun!!! I love the gingerbread house:) Yummy;)
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