Christmas Week

Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and I think we're set! It has been a whirlwind since the kids got out of school a short week ago. We started with seeing Voyage of the Dawn Treader, playing the final basketball and volleyball games of the season, meeting Scott's parents for an early Christmas celebration in Denver and then with...

Tennison got to crush the graham crackers and...

the girls made peanut butter balls.

The kids rocked out a performance of Little Drummer Boy,

my fave Christmas song, sung by Josh Groban - you'll cry.

Our favorite Christmas tradition ~ Gingerbread Houses.

Us girls get a house, the boys get a fort. Tennison requested

more landscape, so we had to build an addition for creativity.

The baker while her candlestick makers were goofin' off!

I can't stop myself, there just can't be empty spaces.

Ta-Da! Doesn't it look grand? We made stain glass windows

this year by melting hard candies in cut out shapes.

Oh the gaudier the better!

Go Big or Go Home ~ Ten's fort is awesome.

The cousins, and my sister, from the land of 10,000

frozen lakes are here, so we went to Estes Park for dinner.

We ate at the Dunraven Inn where they have

dollar bills on the walls throughout the entryway.

It really is a nice Italian restaurant despite all those bills!!



I truly hope the joy of Christmas is right where you are!

I know it is here!