gingerbread fun

Every year at Christmas time we spend an evening putting together some sort of gingerbread house. This year we had fun making a little gingerbread village. Dallon and Dawson love this tradition. And Easton quickly fell in love with all the little bowls of candy.

decorating the tree...

We had fun decorating our christmas tree together. The kids have been so excited about Christmas. I am totally soaking up all their christmas spirit. After we got our tree decorated the kids, and George, danced around to the music together. It was so sweet to watch them enjoying the moment. It took me back to my childhood. I remember christmas when I was young... and I remember dancing around the tree with my siblings to our Alvin and the Chipmunks christmas tape. (some of my favorite christmas memories).

The minute the tree was decorated Dawson ran upstairs and brought down his Christmas sack.... hanging over his shoulder just like Santa carries his. It was so cute. On the outside of the bag he'd drawn a pic of a present. And inside was presents for each and every one of us. He had made them all by hand, all on his own, wrapped in all he could find (computer paper). He'd had them ready since the beginning of November. He is so thoughtful. Never a holiday goes by where he doesn't think of some kind of sweet gift to give to us.






I love my Dallon. He knows how to be a fun big brother!

Lovin' the Lights!

Our Christmas lights are up and we are so excited about them. Aaron rocks right?

Potato Power

Aaron and Dallon had fun this year working on his 5th grade science fair project. They called it "Potato Power". They found that a potato can act like a tiny battery and produce electricity. Enough electricity to light up an LED (small light).

Thanksgiving

We spent five days in Stephenville for Thanksgiving. Uncle Kirk, Aunt Tammy, Thomas, and my brother Landon also came to stay with our family there. They had traveled from Kentucky and Utah to be there. It was such fun to spend our time with lots of family and I'm so grateful that they all made the trip. We had a nice dinner... Marcie's rolls were amazing as usual. Dad was quite the chef in the kitchen this year and Uncle Kirk and Aunt Tammy made the best fruit salad I've ever had. How did you two get away without sharing that recipe? It was so fun to see my Dad with his brother. I hadn't been around the two of them together for years. Don't they look alike? We had good food, great conversation, and fun playing together. There was lots of basketball, some circus acts on the trampoline, a date to the movie theater to see New Moon, shooting guns on their land, and destruction all over their house by Easton... who they now nicknamed "monster".

Pappy teaching Dallon how to shoot a gun. It had gotten dark really fast that night. Dallon took the last couple shots of the night before we packed it up and headed for the house. He loved it!

Fort Worth Zoo

We went to the fort worth zoo over thanksgiving break. It's a really nice zoo... one of the top 5 in the US. We had a great time getting out with the boys, walking around and just enjoying the day. It was Easton's first trip to the zoo and he loved seeing all the different animals and learning their names. Dawson and Dallon loved feeding the birds... they could have done that all day long.

Random... from our home.

Here are some of the random things that have happened in our home this month. This first one of Easton cracks me up. Any time he finds some shorts like these of big brothers he puts them on himself. I found him like this when we were the only two home.

Dallon did this to Dawson and then left him begging for someone to help him. Dad came to the rescue.

Note above written by Dawson. Love it! Tattoo's below are a product of boys being left alone during bedroom time. They had gotten these tattoo's earlier in the week and had forgotten to use them until this night. When we saw what they had done they mentioned that they remember seeing Spencer with cool tattoo's all over his arm on Jaron and Emily's blog a while back. We got a laugh.
This is what happens when Dallon practices piano. Little brother just join in for fun.