Pre Christmas Fun

Now that it is December we are in full swing Christmas.  I love the Christmas season and it is so much fun carrying on the traditions of our childhoods with our kids.  Here are a bunch of pictures from our weekend:

One of my best memories is decorating gingerbread houses with my Mom.  Once Ashton was down for a nap Cate and I put together a gingerbread house and then Cate decorated it herself.

Here is the house all built and ready to be decorated

Cate had a great time decorating the house

Once the house was decorated the roof kept falling off so we had to rig up a support system.  Now that it is dry we don't need the supports any more.

We got a bunch of snow on Saturday so we dressed the kids up in all of their snow gear and headed outside.

Ashton loves playing in the snow.  His gloves are a bit big for him though.

Cate tried to walk across the front yard and then fell in the snow and got stuck.  She loved it!

The kids playing in the snow together.

Saturday night we had some friends over.  The Larkin kids came over and here is a picture of all of them racing around the couch together.  

 On Sunday we headed out to pick out our Christmas tree:

Here is a picture of our tree at the tree lot.

It was very cold on Sunday but the kids had a great time picking out the tree anyway.

Here is a picture of the tree on the car

When we got home from picking out the tree we made some Christmas cookies.  After nap time we all decorated them together.  It made me so happy to look around the table and see us all there having a great time together decorating Christmas cookies.

Our beautiful cookies!!

After decorating the cookies we started to decorate the tree.

Cate posing with our finished tree.  It turned out great!