Decorating and Making.

Today was the last day of Promise Keepers (promisekeepers.ca) that Arnold and my dad were at. They left early in the morning and as a result our day started early as well.

We started with watching some Christmas movies and hanging out and then we moved onto making some gingerbread (or dimdimbed as Kyler calls it) cookies and houses.

Now in case you have never made or decorated anything "dimdimbed" ish then you need to follow these directions:

Have someone take a photo of you before so they remember what you looked like before you were on a sugar high:



Dump all of the candy out on the table like so:



Decorate cookies, with alot or little bits of candy:


kyler perfers alot

When you are done decorating, move to a safe place for photo taking:


Kyler's cookies


Quinton's cookies


Mommy's cookies


GINGERBREAD HOUSE:









Most important step. While parental unit is not look sample some of the left over icing:



Once the icing sugar has had some time to harden taste test! This is important and do not skip this step:




This was our morning. We had so much fun. Then we went to Walmart and did some exchanging (a Christmas Kids CD we bought the other day was NOT Christmas music. They had to pull ALL of them off the shelf after me demanding to listen to it at the store so I didn't have to return it again), and went home and had some lunch. The boys taste tested then and did great. Everyone at Walmart kept telling them that Santa was coming tomorrow. It is true, the Santa Claus Parade is tomorrow but they are going to church this year, mainly because I'm singing but still.

After lunch the boys had a nap and I made the sugar cookies and cleaned up a bit around the house. We made Arnold his birthday dinner of steak, beans, fresh rolls and potatoes. It was really good. Then we all decorated sugar cookies (sorry no photos of that... the icing wasn't the best to use with a spoon so we all ended up with it over our fingers). Since everyone was so sticky the boys were dumped in the bath tub.

Once they were cleaned up we sat down to write our letters to Santa. **Random note, if anyone who wants to write to our kids is reading PLEASE do. They love getting letters and are a bit confused to how writing back works so this would be a good thing** Kyler went first (this is after reading about book about writing to Santa) and we wrote to Santa. While I was writing it out Kyler drew a pictures for Santa of what he wanted for Christmas, or whatever he was feeling at that time.



Quinton went next and asked Santa if he was Happy or Sad (being Happy in this house is a BIG deal to Quinton). We wrote out the letter and Arnold took it to take some photos of it all.



Once everyone got to lick their envelopes (seriously a big excitement for them) we sat down and watched Frosty the Snowman. I made the boys some hot chocolate and they watched the movie. When it was done Arnold put the boys to bed. I'm finally feeling a bit more caught up for this weekend.

Hope you all had a great weekend. Wish us luck! We are going to look at 2 different places tomorrow after church.