We celebrated our family Christmas on December 23-before the business of travel and extended family activities. During the day, Nathan, Ella, and I decorated some gingerbread cookies (taken out of the freezer from Baking Extravaganza). They had different requests for each one...happy, sad, silly, crazy, etc.
Here they are with our little Gingerbread Family.
After the cookies were decorated, it was on to dinner. Since the kids are little, and this is a birthday party after all, we decided to make homemade pizza (with Root Beer of course).
After the cookies were decorated, it was on to dinner. Since the kids are little, and this is a birthday party after all, we decided to make homemade pizza (with Root Beer of course).
Ella also got her haircut this day (her second). I said I wouldn't do it, but she's got bangs!
We then let the kids open their gifts from us-we definitely kept it on a small scale since we knew they would be getting lots of gifts from their grandparents. Their joy, however, was still was big. They were all fun to watch, but everytime after Ella opened a gift, she would exclaim, "It's what I always wanted...Thank you, thank you...I need to give you a hug!". Here she is giving me a hug after opening something, I think it was either a box of fruit snacks or CandyLand. It made giving gifts a lot of fun!
The "big" gift of the night was a sled. Though Nathan has a sled of his own, Matt thought we should be a 2-sled family. He has big plans for our yard. Hopefully soon they'll get to take it for a test drive in the snow, instead of just through the living room!
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