Christmas Gingerbread Train

Our weekends in December are full of Christmas fun! Friday we headed to The Simonds house to play with friends and decorate cookies. Mrs. Shannon ordered pizza and the kids had a blast. I miss seeing everyone and watching the kids play. This past year has been an adjustment for all of us with our second babies! On the way home Trace fell asleep so I took Trenton to look at Christmas lights. He had such a great time! I love Christmas lights and some of the neighborhoods in our area really go all out!

When we got home Trenton was sad that no one could play so we decided to make the Gingerbread Train I bought. This is our first year to do this and I thought “Oh this will be easy”. WRONG! Although it was fun, I am just not great at working with frosting so it was a bit more messy than I had anticipated. Trenton had a great time and he was very particular about how to decorate it. In the end we may have had some structural issues, but it turned out very nice!

Getting the candy ready!

Not sure what’s up with the lighting, but Trenton licked the icing more than he put it on the train!

He bailed on me for a bit and decorated his cookie. He said the train was taking too long.

 

Very serious about adding the candy JUST LIKE THE PICTURE!

Our masterpiece TAKE 1

(see the structural issues)

Quick Smile 1,2,3 before it falls again!!

Once the icing set it stayed pretty nicely! Not too shabby for our first go around!

Christmas Songs

Every Sunday in December the Pee Wees at church sing in “big church”. December 4 was Trenton’s big day to sing. He looked so nervous when he walked in. The kids were so cute and they sang a pretty cute song. Trenton had been practicing for weeks. He was at the very top of the group so my pictures are a weird angle. I was so proud of them and there is nothing better than hearing kids sing!

This is the part where they would say “Moo moo moo moo” I need to get the song because it is pretty funny!

He will be in the kinder class next year and those kids really belt it out! I love that we are a part of a church that focuses so much on children. Trenton LOVES going to church and learning about Jesus.

Christmas Tree 2011

I have been a total slacker this year. I am usually so excited to get home from our trip to Del Rio for Thanksgiving that I pull out the tree that Sunday and it is fully decorated by that evening. Well not so much this year. We just got our tree up a week or so ago. Correction, I put the tree up and it stayed undecorated for a week until we decorated it. I was skeptical of putting my nice decorations on there because I knew Trace would take them off. Trenton and I had a great time decorating the tree while Trace took them all off. It was quite humorous. We may have lost a couple of nice angels (that got dropped on the fire place by little helper elf) and half of my ball ornaments are currently being used as baseballs & golf balls. I also wanted to get pictures of the boys helping and that didn’t happen. Trace wouldn’t sit still and Trenton wasn’t interested. Maybe by the end of the season I will get a picture of them by the tree!

Mom: “Hey Trenton can you sit by the tree so I can take a picture? “

Trenton: “I did all the work I just want to lay down”

Awesome!

This giant snowflake has become a deadly weapon in our house. Many tears have been shed because someone has been slapped with this thing. (It is now in the garbage)

Out tree really does look nice. I just don’t know how to get a good picture! I love that we can see the tree from our front door now. We really didn’t do much outside decorating this year. This has been the most unorganized year for our family. Two has been an adjustment!

He strikes again

If you ever wonder just how long it takes a 1 year old to empty an entire can of Pringles on your floor I am hear to tell you about 15 seconds! Trace is definitely our curious child. This can of Pringles was sitting on the end table with the lid on. He grabbed it, took the lid off WITH HIS TEETH and decided to dump them everywhere. As you can see Big Brother wasn’t far from the crime scene either. He assured me he had no part in this! These boys are a mess, but I love them!