Decorating the Gingerbread House

Every year we decorate a gingerbread house as one of our Christmas Traditions.  Last year it didn't go so well and the year before was worse (it took us a couple tries that year).  So I finally got smart.  I picked up a prebuilt house after Christmas last year on clearance and packed it away with the Christmas decorations.  So this year all we had to do was get out the house and it was already built for us.  We just had to decorate!  It went much better this year!

Grandma Norberg & Thanksgiving Point

Tonight we went down to Lehi and had dinner with Grandma Norberg and Aunt Phyllis. I gave Grandma a picture book that I had made for her that shows all of her 31 great-grandchildren. She really loved it which made me really happy ... I had hoped she would.

Then we took Grandma and went over to Thanksgiving Point and drove through their huge light display.  And we got to see Santa's Reindeer.  That was very cool!!

Then we headed back to Grandma's where she stuffed us with cookies and ice cream and we visited while the boys warmed up in front of her fire.

We love you Grandma!!

Elves @ Gardner Village

Another of our Christmas traditions is to go over to Gardner Village to see the Elves.

Brandon searched for the perfect tree at an elf tree lot.

Eric did some caroling (he LOVES to sing) and stopped for an elf photo op!

Kyle wondered if his letter has made it to the North Pole yet?

Brandon and Eric were sad to find their names on Santa's Naughty List. :(

Kyle was just happy to not be on any list at this point.  Maybe there is hope for him still.

Then we stopped at the Naborhood Baker for a little something to warm us up!  It was a fun adventure!

Christmas Cookies

We have a lot of Christmas traditions that we love to do this time of year.  One of them is making Christmas cookies which the kids then take around to their friends.  We had a lot of fun this year. 

Brandon made a delicious batch of chocolate chip cookies almost entirely by himself!!



Eric helped me make sugar cookies! He ate more "M a M's" then made it on the cookies. :)



Kyle helped me make Triple Chocolate Peppermint Cookies! He was covered in green frosting.

 

And then they delivered their cookies.  It was fun.

The Christmas Lights @ Temple Square

We had a wonderful night tonight downtown at Temple Square, enjoying the Christmas lights.  They were incredible and the boys had such a great time.  We even got to see a little concert from a children's choir at the Assembly Hall.  Eric, our singer, especially loved that part. 

Boys Monthly Letters

The boys have posted their monthly letters to their blogs.  You can access them by clicking on their pictures to the right.

Happy Birthday Dave!

Today is Dave's 36th Birthday!!  We went to lunch at The Pie to celebrate.

The boys gave him "LEGO Harry Potter" for the Wii which he has been wanting.

And we all stuffed ourselves with pizza.

Then this evening we had cake and ice cream and just hung out and were lazy.

Happy Birthday Honey!