Keeping Busy

December is always such a busy month. Better get a blog post in so I don't get too far behind!

Remember the teacher gifts we were working on in the last post (or maybe 2 posts)? **finished product pic was updated on that post** The girls wanted to make a snowflake gift tag for their teachers' gifts out of their hama beads. So we have been doing several hama bead projects!

Yep, that's Yoda. With the colder, darker weather we've been having lots of movie nights. Derek got the kids into Star Wars. I am not so happy about that. I don't like Star Wars. I think it's annoying and nerdy. Sorry if that offends anyone. My kids are all geeked out about Star Wars now and Derek thinks it's hilarious. Thankfully, Christmas movies have started playing and they are preferring those now! :)

Our church Primary organized a Christmas party for the kids. It was held yesterday. Unfortunately, we didn't attend because we had already committed to helping out with Derek's work Christmas party for the kids. Since I am in the Primary Presidency I helped out with the organizing, sort of. The past month during Activity Days, which Allie is a part of, we've been having the kids get things ready for the party. They made the invitations and a lot of the decorations. I was in charge of making one of the crafts. The stuff for it just arrived last week and so I was up just about every night working on it! It was a long process waiting for things to dry.

I did 60 of these!

Last Thursday night was Derek's squadron Christmas party. We got dressed up and actually went this year. Last year Derek went by himself.

The next day Allie had a field trip. I was lucky enough to be able to go with her class. It was a trip to Cambridge to the theatre to see the Aladdin pantomime. Patomimes are huge here around this time of year. I wasn't entirely sure what to expect, but I enjoyed it. It was really funny though there were several times where I felt that I needed to cover my 3rd graders eyes. Kinda raunchy and a bit foul languaged but that is the norm here!

One of my favorite lines that summed it up....."A joke's not a joke unless you have tears running down your legs."

Saturday was the children's Christmas party for Derek's squadron. Unfortunately I didn't take many pictures. We had Mr. Marvel, a magician, come to entertain the kids. He seemed to like Allie as he was always picking on her and having her come up to do things. Derek and I were relieved to have that happen because Allie really wanted to go to the church Christmas party instead. Blake thought Mr. Marvel was hilarious. It was so cute!

Tonight we made some cookies for the Airmen Cookie Drive tomorrow. Another very busy week this week and lots of fun things planned for Winter Break! Stay tuned for more pics!