Class Play and Party

Last week, on Jackson's last day of school before Christmas break, his class put on a play and then had a party!

J was St. Patrick,

and he was adorable!

He had a blast at the party!

Gingerbread Houses

A couple of weekends ago, we had our annual gingerbread house contest!  And as usual, there were lots of laughs, and lots of trash talk!

Notice, we all have hot chocolate...except for Papa Bear! 

Our finished creations!

Bryan's house.

He always makes his so fancy!

My house--I always make mine traditional!

Sarah's house.

Her roof was amazing!

Jackson's house.

J added a star on top!

Christmas Gifts

Yesterday, I wrapped all the kids' Christmas gifts!  I was so excited to be finished, but afterwards, I hid them again instead of putting them under the tree...Sarah and Jackson are great at shaking their presents and correctly guessing what they are!

Christmas Concert

Jackson's in choir this year, and yesterday, they took a field trip to a local hospital and a few nursing homes to sing Christmas carols!  Their first stop was at the hospital that Bryan works at, and he got to go see them!

In the days leading up to the field trip, J was so excited!  But he said his favorite part of the trip was seeing Daddy!

Hot Chocolate Bar

This week with dinner, we had our first hot chocolate bar of the month!  It's always our favorite, and I never quite feel like it's December until we make cocoa!

Ugly Sweaters

Over the weekend, we went to our Supper Club Christmas dinner, and we were supposed to wear our ugly sweaters.  I wore Bryan's sweater, and this is what he wore...

Christmas Tree

For some reason, we were so late getting our house decorated for Christmas this year!  Sunday after church, we finally put the ornaments on the tree!

Jackson was so excited!

After putting about 5 of his ornaments on the tree, Jackson said he was tired and bailed!  So, Bryan and I finished the decorating!

Pip Namebe is Back

We've been so slow getting our Christmas stuff out this year, and J kept asking where Pip Namebe was.

Well, he finally came back yesterday, and he wanted to ride to school to pick up Jackson with me!

Jackson was thrilled!

And this morning, he brought the kids chocolate milk and donuts...something else Jack has been asking about!

Darth

Jackson came downstairs and said, "This is what Darth Vader looks like in the morning."

I'm going to miss it when he stops dressing up like Darth!

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving!  I'm most thankful for these three!

PB&J

Over the weekend, J asked me if Daddy had any days off this week.  He just so happened to have Tuesday off.  So, Jackson said that on Tuesday morning--just because!--he was going to surprise Daddy with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in bed.  And sure enough, yesterday morning, as we were hitting the snooze button a couple of times, we heard some banging in the kitchen.  I went to check on everything and found Jackson making Papa Bear a sandwich!

He's the sweetest.

Halloween

This year for Halloween, we did things a little different.  Instead of going trick-or-treating, got all of Jackson's favorite candy and then, we went to his favorite restaurant.

He LOVED being his favorite villain--Darth Vader!

So, Darth ate his weight in chicken fried steak...

...then got ice cream...

 ...and we all went to bed early!  It was a win-win-win!