Pictures with Santa

Couldn't resist sharing this with you. Classic picture with my favorite Santa. Keira clearly didn't like the guy, but the other kids were okay with him. Caleb told Santa that he wanted a teddy bear or a DS....Chloe got shy and when Santa asked her, she said teddy bear, so I was quick to remind her that she wanted to ask Santa for a Princess bike or a new doll....I NEEDED them to ask for certain things so I made sure that they got their wishes in, so they would be properly granted. This is a picture of a picture, so the quality is not that great.

We also went to the dollar store and let the kids pick out presents for each other. That was fun, I will post pictures of them wrapping the presents later...we still need to wrap them :)

Making Christmas Cards

Monday night, we made Christmas cards. I let the kids use my "good" stuff and they made cards for three of their friends. Chloe made a card for Halie and Lane (who she says she is going to marry).

Keira was determined to use my good markers, I tried to get her to use the washable ones, but she knew the difference and wasn't having ANYTHING to do with the "not good" ones....

Caleb made cards for CJ, Alex, and his best friend, himself....he wrote a card that said "to Caleb from Caleb".

We had fun making the cards and they are almost all posted and ready to go out to our friends...

The Mall

okay, so we went to the mall today with the intention of getting an Angel from the Angel tree, well, that didn't happen. Although, I did look at some of them and nearly started crying as most of them Needed a coat. I LOVE coats and have so many of them. I am so thankful that God has blessed me with all I could ever need. I am still planning on having the kids do something in the way of giving to others, we just decided Angel Tree wasn't for us this year. Here are some pictures of our time at the mall...

Josh and Keira entertained each other....

Caleb never gets to go to the mall, so he was thrilled to be able to play.

Keira gets her cute on.....

Chloe...we did her hair wacky today...I know, not very wacky, but she thought it was.

A trip to this mall isn't worth it unless you take a ride on the train. The kids love riding on the train and they wave all the way around....

Game night

Tonight (the 3rd) was game night. We started by doing a foam gingerbread house (very easy and not too messy)....The kids loved it. They made a pattern on the roof and we put glitter all over the house.

Keira is a little mad that she can't participate....not quite old enough for the wii and board games. We tried to play some board games (monkey'n around, candy land castle, and hi ho cherry-o), however, she was more interested in playing with the pieces instead of playing the game.

Our neighbor, Kendall, came to spend the evening with us, the kids had fun playing the wii, especially since normally, the wii is off limits on weeknights.

Dad and Caleb have a game of golf. I think Dad won...

Practicing his swing....

Another fun night!!!

Tomorrow night (the 4th) is our Sunday School Christmas party, and the kids are going to spend the night at Grandma's house, so they will be excited about that.

Advent calendar activity

So, for our first day of the advent calendar, we went out to eat and Caleb got to pick where we ate. So, he chose Sonic.

We ordered and ate in the car....the kids did great not making a mess

Although, the car smelled like burgers and the next day one of the mints left over tasted a little like a burger, we had fun and are all excited to do our family activities this month.

Tree pictures

Here are the annual by the tree pictures, I KNOW you all have been waiting for......the kids are just too cute, I know....

Just want to gobble them up!

Thanksgiving, Texas style

Happy Thanksgiving!!! We spent a wonderful day at Grandpa and Grandma Lunn's house, ate way too much, played with the kids, and attempted to get some family pictures. Here are the results......

Apparently, I wasn't near as interesting as whatever they all were looking at.....

Still trying to get a good family picture....

The Lunn family....a good looking bunch, don't you think????

We had a great day, hope you did too!