3 More Days to Christmas

The kids and I went around and looked at Christmas lights. There is a Lawn and Tree Care business that does a really good job decorating and this year the lights were in synch to the music on a local radio station. It was pretty cool.

Our next stop was at Caroler's Lane. It consists of three streets and each have a carol and beautifully decorated houses. They swap carols every year so that they don't have the same one. We drove through the streets with our car but one could take a hayride that drives pass the houses. It was too cold and we were not dressed for a hayride.

Our last stop was a house that was featured on the news. They have beautiful lights and they wanted to do more than offer pretty lights so they are collecting can foods for the local food harvest. Santa was there and I took a picture of the kids with him.

Ellie kept telling me, "I'm scared momma." Look at that little face. aaaahhhh

Here is part of the lights on "Santa's house"

We had fun with making holiday ornaments.

I did the painting and the glueing of the frame and the kids did the decorating. Hayden's star fell off.... going to have to re-glue it back on.

This next one is Ellie's and is a shooting star. She helped with with the glue and she sprinkled the goody stuff on it.

Both kids did a candy cane. I did the antlers and they each glued on the eyes and ears.

The Christmas tree was Ellie's craft and she helped with the glueing and the sprinkling of the paper ornaments. Doesn't it look beautiful.

We also did an edible christmas tree. We took one of the sugar cone ice cream cones and turned it upside down and frosted it with green frosting and sprinkled it with lots of sprinkles. I didn't get a picture of them before they were consumed. hehehe

The next two crafts are what Hayden did at school. They are spectacular.

The snowman lost part of his smile... I can see it in the bottom right hand side of picture. hahaha. Oooppss. I guess that means there is going to be more gluing. Hot glue is my friend. ;-)