Christmas Day, 2008

Christmas Day at our house was GREAT! Santa came and left Ben lots of fun toys. Legos seemed to be the most popular thing at our house this Christmas. That is what we were busy doing all day long. Luckily Ben took his nap so our eyes could get a break from putting the Lego firestation, police station and service station together.

Ben has a HUGE sweet tooth, no matter what the other flavor that you mix in with the sugar. This was a lemon bar that he discovered that he liked--right before lunch.

Nana and Poppa joined us for lunch. Ben is almost getting too big to pick up!

Rudolph with your nose so bright...

It is Christmas Eve and we just put out the reindeer food for Rudolph and his buddies. Ben has had the jar of food sitting by the front door since he brought it home. We can't wait! The milk and cookies are next!

Christmas at Grandma's House

Today we went to Grandma's house in Phenix City, Alabama. Ben was very excited to see his cousins. Here is a picture of Mallory, Brandon, Grandma, Ben and Kayleigh. Ben is into Legos and luckily he was surprised with a few new sets which have already been put together compliments of his daddy.

PreK Christmas Fun!

This was our last week of school before the Christmas break. Ben had a busy schedule in his PreK classroom. On Monday they had Christmas Centers. This was the center that I helped at..we made Reindeer food. Ben is patiently waiting for the 'magic glitter' to put in his jar before he shakes it up.
On Thursday some special guests came to their class. Two of Santa's Elves came to visit and they brought Santa's dog with them. After 'Polar Express' was read to the class, the elves served hot chocolate and muffins. Earlier in the week, the class had made a special wish list for Santa. Ben's teacher sent the list home with the elves to give to Santa.

Finally, on Friday was the party. The kids had great snacks and some red fruit punch which Ben is proud to show off on is lips in the picture with Nanny.

Merry Christmas!!

I am so proud of our decorations this year..they are actually the same as last year! I wish I would have invented the huge suction cups for the windows and those white 3M hooks with the sticky back!

Gingerbread House for the Fourth Little Pig

This has been the best Christmas season. Ben has been into making all sorts of stuff. Today we made a Gingerbread House. From the start, Ben knew he was going to get to eat some candy. I wasn't so sure we would have enough candy for decorating it...but we did.

He started off by licking the icing off of the mixer.

I couldn't resist getting a picture with the 'evidence' on his face. This Gingerbread House will drive his daddy crazy...It will be in the trash on Dec. 26! We will enjoy it on the dining room table until then.

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer....

Check out this snazzy little reindeer that Ben and I made...We actually made 11 of them. We would have had 12, but Ben ate one of the candy canes yesterday.