Thursday, January 7, 2016

Christmas with the Evers Family

Here are the kids lining up to sing their rendition of the 12 Days of Christmas!  Logan had to line up for the photo too!


Grandkids with Nana and Papa

Grandkids with Nana and Papa and Great Grandma Evers

Kids with Mom, Dad, and Grandma Evers

Kids with spouses and Mom, Dad, and Grandma Evers

Gift opening







Card playing

The girls building their lego sets.  They all had the same set to build.


Cousins hanging out!  And Logan saying, "cheese!"

Merry Christmas!

We celebrated Christmas day with our immediate family at our house.  Below is the tree with all the presents, then the stockings, and then the kids on Christmas morning.





Here's Logan with his car ramp and Lydia and Makayla trying on their Elsa gloves.




This Baby Alive doll was probably Lydia's favorite gift.  She's been asking for one for a long time!

Makayla was pretty excited with her 18 inch doll!

Both girls, but especially Makayla, have wanted these horse toys for a long time.  I finally bought them, although the girls might already be a little too old for them. They did have fun opening them and playing with them for a while.

The kids had some snacks, including chips, in their stockings.  Logan wasted no time getting upstairs to eat his chips!

Lydia was surprised when she opened her gift from Makayla...a Doc McStuffins washcloth.  We were shopping at the dollar store and Lydia noticed it in the bin (it was the last one of that character), but then Makayla grabbed it quickly and put it in her basket to buy for Lydia.  Lydia kept searching the bin trying to find it, but finally gave up, although she insisted she had seen a Doc McStuffins one.  So she had a big smile when she realized Makayla had bought it!




These suitcases were a big hit with the girls!  I love the expressions on their faces!



Dressed for church.  Logan didn't actually wear the vest and tie to church....the pants and dress shirt were tough enough to get him to wear.  I bribed him with mint chocolate when we got home so that he'd wear the vest/tie long enough for some photos!  He loves the Hershey kisses mint chocolate kisses!


Our cake for baby Jesus' birthday!


Nana and Papa came over for supper and for the evening.


Holiday Baking

I wasn't much of a holiday baker this year...it's not that easy with a toddler under-foot, I hate the mess and the clean up, and I don't like to have too many sweets in the house that are tempting me to eat them!  I did bake some sugar cookies with my friend Katie, so I bought some frosting and sprinkles so the kids could decorate!


Please note that Logan did not put sprinkles on any cookies that went onto the serving tray!  ;)




I also bought a pre-cooked gingerbread house for the girls!  It turns out that the house was even fully assembled in the box...bonus!!  So they just decorated it!  It was super easy and they had a blast!




Below are the girls each displaying the two sides of the house that they decorated!




The girls drooled over their gingerbread house for several days until I let them eat it!  Neither of them was impressed by eating it...it was hard to break off the candy and I don't think it tasted nearly as good as it looked!   Below they are trying to get it apart!  Eventually we took a meat mallet to it, which was a blast for the girls!