What we have been up to this month.

I am either just creative or extremely bored. Elizabeth says I am over creative, if there is such a thing. I just want to make sure to make the holidays memorable for the kids, a special time that they will remember. Though I try to do that with everything we do. I want to make sure they have good memories of their child hood, that they know they have parents that cared. So using salt dough molds that we used a couple of years ago making Halloween decorations I got this crazy idea to use it to make Christmas decorations as well... I used about 7 cups of flour and 3 cups of salt to make our ornaments.... we made tons of ornaments and other decorations for the house. Everything painted by the girls and I and the ornaments all beaded and strung by me... This is only a few of them we have made, we also made some for their friends, teachers and some Grandma's and Grandpa's will be receiving some as well....

These decorations were 3D cookie cutters that I bought last year to make into cookies... did not work out so easy for cookies but made great decorations for the house.. after painting them I hot glued all their pieces together so they would stay standing, otherwise they really don't stay together on their own to well...

We also made tons of cookies to decorate for the girls to take to school for their Christmas party before vacation.

Lexie's class room party, everyone was suppose to wear their pajamas to school that day, and they aired The Polar Express on their tv's that each class room has as they colored and ate their treats.

We had observation week at the ballet studio this month as well, pictures and videos!

We made gingerbread houses using graham crackers- we used gingerbread cookies last year, but we thought we would try graham crackers instead this time, did you know that Betty Crocker vanilla frosting and graham crackers really taste good together? LOL

Our first snowfall of the season, it wasn't much but just enough for the kids to enjoy if only for a little while. I couldn't get Anthony to get in it, too cold he said.

Christmas Eve we took the kids ice skating. At first it was a little tough getting started, I only had been on the ice two other times in the my life, the kids never saw a rink before.

But as time went on we all got a little bit more brave and ventured away from the wall.......




John didn't go skating, a few days away from deployment he thought it would be a good idea NOT to break anything.....I think he was mostly scared to try,,,,,LOL so he took pictures, and video.

Her own fashion statement....

Aren't girls just adorable?