Fun Christmas Crafts

Every month, Home Depot and Lowes give away craft kits for kids.  

They had so many fun ones this month. 

 I was able to get a bunch of them and do them with some of my favorite kids!

My activity day boys made the cute cars.

I got to do them with some of Ric and Kathy's grandkids

Thank heavens Ric was there to help.  We had Taylor, Devin, Paige, Calvin Lucy, and Jack.  It's definitely nice to have an assistant!  Thea couldn't come, so I stopped by her house and she painted an ornament.

I also did the cars with my cute boys.

These girls made the Christmas train.

They turned out soooooo cute!

I mailed some of the little gingerbread houses to these cute kids in Oregon.

I LOVE how adorable they turned out!

I love these tiny girls that live in my neighborhood.  

They made darling ones too!  

Thanks Home Depot and Lowes for all the fun Christmas Crafts!

Jamie went to Pinners Conference, and learned to make these cute trees, so I got the stuff to make them and Hailey and Libbie were able to come and make them with me.  (Molly was on a mini vaca with her family)

Mike wanted to do his a little different, and they turned out very cool!

These girls made the cutest Christmas pancakes.

We put the batter in bottles like Sophie is holding and 

it makes it so fun to make all kinds of shapes.

Mike's surgery update

When we went to see Dr. Shumway, the end of November, he told Mike he could finally put weight on his foot.  Hooray!  He had to continue wearing his boot for 2 weeks, and then he could graduate to a smaller brace. He is still using the walker, and it still hurts, but we are grateful that the surgery is done and he is on the recovery end of it.

He also had cataract surgery on both eyes in the last few months.  Quite a year!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Since we celebrate Thanksgiving the Sunday before, Monday morning I got up early and decorated my house.

Last year I added some red and black buffalo checked things to my Christmas, and this year I found a cute table runner to match.

I LOVE Mom's precious moments nativity on my piano.

It's all so cozy.

I'm so grateful we redid our fireplace a few years ago.

For the last few years, the church has being doing the Light the World campaign.  It has made my Christmas Season so much fun.  I'm very excited to start that this week.

Projects with the boys

Every month, both Lowes and Home Depot pass out little kits for projects that kids can make.  I have been collecting a few of them, and showed them to the boys on Thanksgiving.  They couldn't wait to have a sleepover so they could build some of them.  As soon as they arrived, they wanted to get started.

They built these cute jeeps, (and Logan also built the army vehicle)  The next morning, they went with me to Home Depot and got the kits to make these cute gingerbread houses.  

They did such a great job.  While we were waiting for the paint to dry, before putting on the stickers, they had a great time building with Legos, Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys.

Logan had seen an advertisement for IHOP's Winter Wonderland pancakes and really wanted to go.  Since Mike is still not leaving the house much since he has to use the scooter, I am a little leery of taking 4 boys anywhere by myself.

They had so much fun helping to make them.

 

Thanksgiving 2021

We have so much to be grateful for this year.  We were able to gather with all of our family, unlike last year.  Even though Covid is still running rampid, since most of us have had our vaccines, we feel more comfortable being able to get together.  I loved how everything looked. So glad I took pictures before, because once everyone arrived, it was so wild, I didn't take any pictures. 

Finally, Mike's post op Dr. visit

2 weeks after Mike's surgery, he finally got to go to the doctor and take off the HUGE splint and bandage that he'd been wearing since surgery.

They were able to do orthoscopic surgery, so he just had 4 little holes instead of a large cut.

They put in 3 large screws.

Now he has a sporty boot that he can take off to shower, Hooray!  

Just 4-6 more weeks with no weight bearing.  😑

 

Visitors from Abeline Texas

Crystal called the other day and said her dad had invited her family to come with him to Utah to pick up the last few things they were getting from Grandma Cline's.  She asked if they could stay with us and we said ABSOLUTELY!  We had so much fun with them.  Friday night, we got to tend Jordan's kids while they went to a movie, and they loved playing with Koda.

Logan and Parker adored him and had so much fun.

 Savvy was so sweet with him too!

 

I think we wore him and his grandpa out!

When Logan called me that afternoon, I was raking and bagging leaves.  When he got here, he was sad that there were not leaves to jump in, so I told him where the bags of leaves were, and he and Parker  were thrilled to dump one out and play in it.