Lights and Gingerbread

Christmas Lights!!

All the boys worked really hard

to get them all up just how I wanted.

 

I threw out all the tennis balls and

we took a little break and played

war ball.

 

 

And yes, it's a handful of days into

December and they are all wearing

shorts!  The weather has been so

great!  Today was no exception.

 

Final touches on my Grinch!

 

 

and you can't have Christmas lights

with out a cute little weenie dog

in a Santa suit!

 

 

I love my Grinch!

I already have a few ideas about

what I want to add to the yard next year.

DON'T Tell KC!

 

 

I asked the boys what all they

for sure wanted to do for the holidays

and making gingerbread houses

with Brent and Kristin was first on

their lists!

 

This is the 3rd year running for this

and you would think we would

have a system down by now.

But we don't and it's all the more fun.

 

Rylee and Kristin ALWAYS

up to lots of shenanigans!

 

Christmas is Coming!

Look who's back!!

Working on new Christmas yard

decorations.  I am so excited to get

this guy finished!

The butterfly has been BUSY!!

Lots and Lots of stuff shipping

and being picked up every day.

I am not a fan of shipping things at

Christmas time.  It must be done.

This is what our living room

looks like after cramming 4 nights

straight of non stop sign making!

I shampooed the carpets and the weather was
so nice that I locked the dogs outside.
They thought it was torture of course.
I got lots of evil eyes.

We volunteered at Evelyn Rivers

wrapping up lots of goodies for

children in need around our area.

Rylee and Cody grabbed this Bambi paper

off of another persons table because

it was vintage and Disney and they

knew I would love it!

Ha Ha!  They are keepers!

 

Lots of gifts to stack and sort!

 

Nights of Lights Parade

Nights of Lights parade is

one of our favorite Christmas

traditions!  So many great floats

with lots and lots of pretty lights.

This year was very Cold!

 

 

 

 

 

We had a great time though.

 

Catch Up

We have had a ton of Boy Scout

stuff going on lately.

 

ALL of our popcorn came in.

The boys sold almost $1500 worth!

That makes for a lot of popcorn

to deliver.  Rylee even sold the

second most popcorn out of

his whole troop.  Very proud of him.

 

 

Sorting it all out is always the

hardest part.

 

The boys have several merit badges

that they are working on right now.

Lots of researching and lots of

paper work always come with them.

 

 

We took a little break to put their candy

on their advent Christmas trees.

We are so ready for Christmas around here.

 

 

I am still trying to work on the boys

quilts.  My MawMaw had to help me

with some of the last few steps.

I'm getting closer.

 

 

She likes to help by laying on

all of my fabric.

and back to boy scouts!

Monthly weekend campout

at Camp Don.

 

 

 

 

Cody and Kade both earned

toten chip by taking a knife and

ax safety course.

 

The next weekend they went

to an Environmental Science

merit badge class.

 

 

Learned all kinds of stuff

and marked off that Eagle

required merit badge.