Fun Christmas Activities

This year my favorite Christmas activity was of course, caroling!  We went on several occasions (Eric just once, that's our deal haha) and the kids were great about singing loud and strong.  I was grateful that I felt good enough to bake lots of treats and go caroling! What a blessing to be over morning sickness by Christmastime!

My next favorite Christmas activity was singing and reading Christmas stories every night in December.  Eric bought these fun laser lights that we would turn on in addition to the tree lights, and it was very festive. :)  I just loved looking around at all the cute faces in the light from the tree.  Also we kind of started giving hugs after our family prayer for a few nights in a row, and now Maris definitely thinks its a thing!  So after the prayer every night she yells "hug time!!" it's the cutest thing ever and of course we all have to comply. :)

Here are the pictures from all of our other super fun Christmas activities.

Grandma took us for a ride on the Polar Express!

Owen was excited to be on a real train!

It was fun, they had lots of singing and hot chocolate and cookies, and Katelyn and Whitney were even brave and competed in a solo singing contest!  Katelyn sang Jingle Bells and Whitney sang Frosty the Snowman in Spanish. :)

The highlight was meeting Santa!!

and being with our real Santa aka Grandma!  haha.

Ward Christmas party- the kids dressed as shepherds or angels and sang two very cute songs. Owen is the shepherd second from the right in the front,

And Katelyn's an angel in the back and Whitney's a shepherd in the middle.

Our cute Sunday Christmas outfits!

Katelyn worked really hard on these cute sock snowmen to sell in the school economics fair.

Making gingerbread houses!

and real gingerbread cookies.

Eric took the kids sledding by himself twice during Christmas Break!  It was awesome.  I was grateful to not have to go (let's be honest, I like sledding but I hate being cold!  So pregnancy is a great excuse to not have to go!) and the kids now think it's just a special thing they do just with Dad-- I'm totally fine with that!  Eric is so much fun.