Christmas break -- week 1

It's been a pretty busy but fun week with Kyrie home from school. We haven't been able to do all the things I had planned, which I was bummed about, but we've gotten to a few of them and have had a fun time.

On Monday for Family Home Evening, we decided to decorate a wreath for our front door. We ended up getting invited to a friend's house for games, so we had to postpone that until Tuesday instead. It was all Kyrie's idea to do the wreath, so I let her have at it. She picked out the wreath, the bow and the bells and had such a fun time putting it together herself.

Then on Wednesday we decided to make cookies. The plan was to make sugar cookies and gingerbread men, but for some reason, Wal*Mart doesn't carry molasses? Either that, or they store it on the beer isle. Because that's the only isle I didn't check, so that's probably where it was. :) We settled on just doing sugar cookies instead and will do the gingerbread men next week while Derk's home on his break.

This morning, the kids decided they wanted to play in the box Grandma and Grandpa shipped their Christmas presents in. Kyrie had the idea to make a car out of it, and they had a great time coloring and drawing all the car parts. It ended up being an airplane/police car. :)

"Honk"

"Police 911"


"Stop" and "Gas"


The steering wheel


"Passengers"


So much fun!