I have been remiss in my reporting of Christmas so here are some highlights from our Christmas break. I think it’s ridiculous that now days kids don’t get two weeks off at Christmas so we took a full two weeks off. First we decorated our house.

These are by far my favorite Christmas craft ever.

And I discovered these this year…

Then we decorated our annual gingerbread house.


Rock decided to go REALLY BIG this year. This home is on acreage!

At least Libby and the gingerbread house were photogenic.

Christmas Morning

They took a quick glance at the other stuff and then tore into the Legos. Santa finally got smart this year and got them exactly what they asked for instead of trying to get them something he figured they would really like instead, which usually ends up being discarded after a day or two and ignored the rest of the year. And just because he got them sleds this year it probably won’t snow much. But then that might have been an inadvertent gift to the snow shoveler in the family.

Levi, our friendly fashion advisor helped Liberty with her stocking stuffers.

It took her a while, but she finally got IN the tent about 3 hours after she first saw it.

And my favorite picture from Christmas morning this year…

The week after Christmas we just played. Me with my new Kindle and they with their new toys. We had great fun and still are! Thanks Santa!