December has come and gone so fast my head is still spinning! It was a great month filled with fun.
Some of our Christmas highlights were...
The whole first grade put on a Christmas program. They each took turns saying lines from The Night Before Christmas and they dazzled us with their Christmas Caroling!
Holiday baking! This year the kids jumped right in to help decorate the sugar cookies. They did really good and only took a bite out of a few. ;)
I even tried making fudge this year. It turned out pretty good, if I do say so myself! I think we watched A Christmas Story too many times though because Allie kept calling it "Oh, FUDGE!"
I even tried making fudge this year. It turned out pretty good, if I do say so myself! I think we watched A Christmas Story too many times though because Allie kept calling it "Oh, FUDGE!"
One of our family's Christmas traditions is to read Christmas stories every night by the Christmas tree. We read from our Christmas Countdown book, The Grinch, The Night Before Christmas and lots others but our favorite is The Best Christmas Pageant Ever! We also watch Christmas movies and fall asleep in front of the tree almost every night.
Christmas Eve was spent with my side of the family. We always have a huge Hardy Party with my Grandpa Glen's brothers and sisters and their families. Its quite the ta-do, matching shirts and all! The night of Christmas Eve we had a delicious steak dinner at Grandpa Glen and Grandma Shirley's. We played the white elephant game and that crazy game where you roll dice and when you get a certain number you put on gloves, a hat and scarf and try to unwrap a present with forks. We got a little crazy!! Back at our house we unwrapped our Christmas PJ's and read the Christmas story from the Bible.
Christmas morning the kids woke up to lots of fun things! No trampoline this year.. but Allie got a Princess table from Santa and the boys got a Cars play tent {among other things!!}.
But I think Mark was the most spoiled this year. He got a tractor for Christmas! Isn't he the cutest??! Someone needs to break it to him that cowboys don't have binkies. Any volunteers?
Here we are in our Christmas PJ's. They boys got Transformers jammies and the girls got Pink jammies!
We had a very Merry Christmas. We truely felt the spirit of love and giving. Allie was great to remind us that it was her and Jesus' birthday!
I hope we can all carry the Christmas feeling with us throughout the year!!
HAPPY {almost} NEW YEAR!!!!
