Sunday, December 26, 2010

Christmas 2010

Well Christmas is over once again.  I finally gotten around to downloading all my pictures and videos.

First off our Christmas decorations.

Inside:


And outside


It was a bit late but we finally got some snow about 4 days before christmas (whew for a while there I thought we were going to have a green Christmas - not something that you want in this part of the world)

The kids had an absolute ball.




And finally Christmas day.  Not really much to say - its pretty self explanatory - the kids, both big and little, had a great day!

Friday, December 10, 2010

Family Photos

Just thought I'd share some of these semi professional photos we had taken.  One of the Mums in our mothers group is trying to start a phototgraph business and in order to get a good portfolio going she offered a photo session with all rights to photos for only $5 - how can you turn that down.






Thursday, December 9, 2010

Pre Christmas Fun

Well I decided that with Lexie getting to the right age we could start really doing christmas this year.

We started with an Advent Calendar - every day another christassy type activity - obviously day one was make advent calendar. 




Lexie was a big help - I cut out the cardboard shapes and she stuck them onto the fabric - after a bit of pre cutting by me she then turned all the edges over snad stuck them down to finish the envelope then folded then along pre creased lines - She actually did a really good job of it - I was impressed - but after the day before I had expected as much - it looks like shes going to be a seamstree this one - check out her sewing attempts!




Other activities have been "Write a letter to Santa"  - consisted of her circling thing that she wanted in brochures, me cutting them out and her sticking them on the pice of paper and writing her name



And "Deliver said letter to Santa" Lexie was so excited about getting to see Santa - she got a great big hug and showed him her letter. It was so much fun - Josh on the other hand wasn't quite so enthused about it.....





 
Josh did however enjoy todays activity - gingerbread houses....  Lexie and I built the kit then all three of us sat down to decorate it - a blast was had by all.  Lexie and Josh did the roof all by themselves!