December 1st
December not only kicks of the Christmas season for us, it also means birthday time at our house. Cole's birthday is December 2nd so today we wrapped birthday presents and got groceries for birthday breakfast and dinner. We also took a few minutes to *try* and get a photo of all 3 kids sitting in front of the Christmas tree for our Christmas card....let's just say that it didn't go well. We got one semi-OK shot and TONS of not good at all shots. So, we're opting for the individual pictures on our Christmas card this year.
December 2nd
Happy Birthday to my favorite 9-year-old on the planet! I can believe Cole is 9 already. He's such a great kid and an awesome big brother. Today he wanted to take cookies to his class for his birthday but he didn't want mom to bring them (ahhh, entering the "not cool to have your mom at school phase")
. The two little kids and I did take balloons to the school BUT we had the secretary deliver them to his class. This is the first year that Cole is having friends come to his birthday party. He wanted to have his party on Friday so that he could stay up later and have a longer party.
December 3rd
Party DAY! Cupcakes...presents...balloons, we spent the day getting ready for Cole's party. At 6:00 the friends arrive and they mayhem begins. The activity of choice is a nerf gun battle downstairs. At 7:00 the Grandparents arrive for cake and ice cream. Cole wanted a race car cake so we came up with the idea to make big cupcakes for him and his friends and put a matchbox car on top of the cupcake. Then each boy could take their car home with them.
We started the tradition of having a camp-out under the Christmas tree a few years ago. Cole and Kay were so excited for the camp-out they got their jammies on and curled up under the tree. When I was tucking them in I asked them each what their favorite part of the day was. Cole's response, "playing with my friends. I had a really fun party, mom." Kayleigh's response, "I like playing games with Colin the best." Such a sweet response from both of them! I sure do love my munchkins!
December 4th
Can you say Christmas Party? Today we have two big Christmas Parties. The Adams Family Christmas Party and the Ward Christmas Party. The Adams Family Party consists of Grandpa Adams his siblings, their children, and grandchildren, that translates to a lot of people. This year Grandpa Adams was in charge so we spent time cooking, setting up, cleaning up, and the infamous raffle table.
The ward party was a Grinch themed party. Cole got to be a part of the
