Pre-Christmas

We made gingerbread houses (well graham cracker houses) this year. When my Grandma Howse was alive we would make houses every year. I know a lot of my family who live in Utah still do this tradition, but since we live in AZ I thought we would start our own tradition of making gingerbread houses. Maybe next year we will actually use gingerbread. The kids loved making (eating) them and we loved wathching them.






This year we went to the boat parade out at Tempe Town Lakes. I thought it was wonderful-how often to you get to see a boat parade-and in the winter even? Our pictures don't really do the boats justice-but we took some anyway. We also got to visit with Santa at the park. I think he must have been getting tired-because he forgot his smile.

Here is a picture of Jaxon's christmas projects from pre-school. He loved his reindeer horns and wore it straight for the next few days.





The kids had a blast decorating the tree this year. The kids did a great job-although the tree was a little heavily decorated on the bottom half. Every once in a while I would nonchalantly replace a bulb, but Jaxon was quick to notice and say, "Mom why did you move that - I wanted that there. In the end the tree looked great if you looked at it straight on. If you happened to look at it from a side angle you would notice there were no ornaments there or on the back of our tree. O-well I thought it looked beautiful anyway.