Christmas Fun!

Christmas time can be stressful, but it is also time where you make time to do some fun things as well.

Like making gingerbread houses. When I picked Katie up from her SS class on Sunday she had a beautiful gingerbread house all made to show us. In her enthusiasm to show me she she picked it up and it went falling forward on the ground and broken into pieces. Mrs. Jill came to the rescue. There were several undecorated houses left so she let Katie take another one home and also gave one to Bree. On the way home we stopped to get some icing so we could decorate them.

Katie's finished house. I love how she made the door out of two mini snickers bars.



When Bree got up from her nap she got to decorate hers. This is how she woke up from nap. Still in her dress from church and sometime after we laid her down she got up and put on her hat. Guess her head was cold. Ha! She kept it on the whole time she decorated her house.



She worked very hard on hers. She would look at the candy and then look at her house and decide where she wanted each piece to go. Maybe we have an interior decorator on our hands.

Here is her finished house

Another fun thing of the Christmas season is spending time with friends and those you love. On Sunday evening we had our Christmas party for the 11th and 12th graders we teach. Stefanie and I made potato soup and chili while the kiddos all brought drinks and dessert. We had a great turn out. Most of our social functions we have about 8 or so but tonight we had 17. It was nice to have pretty much the entire class there. I know I talk about these kids in some of my post so I took some pics so you all can see their beautiful faces.

Taylor is our kids favorite. They are always hugging on him and wanting him to play. This night he was their jungle gym. They were all hanging on his legs everywhere he went. Thankfully Taylor is a good sport.

Several of our crew. I really thought trying to get two kids to look at the camera and smile was hard, but I found out it is much harder with teenagers. :) This is the best I got from this group out of about four pics.

L to R: Ian, Lindsey, Andrew, Drew, Sarah and Charles aka Chuckles

The two Taylors

Casey, Sean , Devin and Chris

I really do love these kids, they are so much fun. We had a great party. Played a little Family Feud Christmas version and had a gift card exchange dirty Santa style.