McKay's and his best friend Ezra have such a good time playing together. Their very favorite thing to do is play superheros. McKay has become quite obsessed with Captain America.
We went to a fun neighborhood lights display and it included a live nativity. It even had real animals, which we all thought was awesome. We had the missionaries with us and started noticing that there most of the houses in Georgia have wreaths on the windows. I don't mean a few windows...EVERY window. We decided to try and find the house with the most wreaths on it. We found a house with 19 on it!!
Lincoln had to do a project where he put an egg into some contraption that he built and it was thrown off the roof of the school. He was pretty excited that his egg was safe and sound in this little ditty even after they kicked it off the roof!
Palmer's first meeting for the play. He was pretty excited to get things started!
We had a cooking unit in preschool and we all made cookies together. The kids loved it.
One night McKay told me that next year he was going to be naughty because he wanted coal for Christmas. He's so silly.
This is what we made for the boys classmates.
I got to help with Lincoln's class "winter" (they don't call it Christmas) party.
McKay was pretty excited to be included as well. Lincoln is always so cute with him and let him tag along with him.
Our elf scout always ends up getting into all sorts of trouble. They boys love it.
We gave our boys' teachers hot chocolate on stick for their present.
This was our Christmas card this year.
I went to a Christmas cookie exchange that our bishop's wife threw. It was a lot of fun. I brought chocolate dipped gingerbread cookies. It was fun to bring home all sorts different cookies home and give them to our neighbors.
We took our boys to a concert by the Georgia boys choir in Atlanta. Some friends in our ward are part of it.
The whole things was so beautiful and the church was decorated so lovely that I was in absolutely heaven. The boys liked it too (although McKay and Lincoln were asleep by the end of it). I was so impressed with how quiet the boys were. Even McKay was so good.
It was one of my favorite Christmas memories from this year.
Our boys all decked out for Christmas Sunday.
We were invited to go Christmas caroling with our friends the Coffeys the Sunday before Christmas in their neighborhood.
The sister missionaries came with us and we all had so much fun.
On Christmas eve we went to our Bishop's house for dinner and a white elephant gift exchange. These were the fun gifts that we came up with.
We did our annual Christmas tree scavanger hunt. For some reason the boys wanted lacrosse sticks in the picture. We did it polar express style and got in our pajamas and went to Starbucks to get yummy hot chocolate and then we went to see what we could find. We found a lot of things on our list.
Our favorite things was this house. There was a sign that told us to turn our radio to a certain radio station and the lights came on and off to music. The best were these singing trees. It was so much fun.
Hunter got this fun "Rip Rider" for Christmas, but McKay quickly took it over.
Palmer has been very into cooking lately and can make pizza all by himself, including the crust from scratch! Pretty impressive.
McKay is such a creative kid. One night while we were playing games as a family, McKay was super quiet in the other room. When we went in to check on him, he had built a "pirate ship" out of boxes and used a calendar we got at a Chinese restaurant for the sale (he snuck the scissors to attach it at the top).
Palmer and his friend making pizza.
Fun hand tatoos the boys got in their stockings.
Palmer got these funny cheese spreader knives for a white elephant gift at a party we went to. They have teenage acronyms like LOL and TTYL (talk to ya later, I had no idea what that one was). The boys all went crazy for them and Josh made them little sheaths for them out of duct tape. They all wore them around on their belts all Christmas break.
We love getting a date to the Atlanta temple! It doesn't happen enough!
Silly boy found this old cookie monster hat of Palmer's and wore it every day along with pjs and his Captain America boots.
I was worried that December would be extra hard as we were missing our family so much, but thanks to finding some fun things to start for traditions, we enjoyed our first December in Georgia.
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