December 11 of our 25 Days of Christmas!

<==Baby Steps

Up early again today! Did not make it to church due to our little teething monster! Annabelle helped make pancakes for breakfast, she even made us a pot of Coffee all by her self lol! She had the idea of making Christmas pancakes so we made Angels and Gingerbread boys :0)
Day Two of her Chore Chart and I am so happy with her progress! Her room is staying as tidy as an 8 year olds room can when they have every toy and doll made lol.
Day Two of no bottle for Clayton! I wanted to cry this morning watching him eat pancakes like a big boy and using his sippy!
After breakfast clean up we did the chore chart and I organized Clayton's room while we listened to Christmas Music of course :0)
We practiced walking with Clayton for a while. He does so well with his walking toy and takes steps alone when he does not think you are watching! But never lets me catch to many on video!
After lunch it pretty much turned into a lazy day at the Bear Den. We started off watching Polar Express my favorite Christmas Movie! Then while Ananbelle helped her Daddy with cows and Clayton took a nap I watched a Christmas Kiss, good movie! We watched more of our Christmas movies we had recorded before story and craft time!
Craft of the night.. yep Salt Dough lol I am very pleased with Clayton's hand print do over! I let Annabelle go wild with her glitter tonight on the others we made! We love salt dough ornaments. Tomorrow night we are changing it up a bit though.
Story of the night-a Golden Book: Baby's Christmas. It went very well until Clayton decided it would make a better snack!
Our new Elf on the Shelf should be here any day! I am so excited! I have so much planned for that little guy haha! Annabelle has been begging for one so it is going to be their early Christmas present and mine too ;0)

Story Time

Clayton's new Handprint!

Annabelle's glittered out ornamet

One we did together :0)

Our Christmas Pancakes!

Well it is time to get everyone  ready for a movie and bed time!

December 10th: 15 days until Christmas!

Early Blog because we are having an early bedtime! These kids have been up since 6:30am and we have been going every since then! Clayton went all day with no bottle! He did very well with a sippy cup, bitter sweet I want to cry because he is getting so big! We started a new chore chart with Annabelle who was actually very excited about her own checklist and point system! She feels grown up! So far so good though! She got a lot done with out complaining!
Santa's beard is filling up quit nicely!! Only 15 days until Christmas!
Guess what kind of craft we did today?! Okay I will tell you ;0) Salt Dough ornaments of course! This is my new obsession! Give your kids cookie cutters and let them go! I enjoy them too! Usually I am very Ocd about paint lol but today I let Annabelle and Olivia be free to paint with any colors they wanted to use! This was very hard for me! But I did my own ornament and stayed quiet!
After our ornaments we watched Tangeled, very cute movie, The Santa Claus 2 , the Miracle Maker and Veggie Tales! We created Candy Cane Popcorn and even added candy canes to our hot chocolate! The girls enjoyed that! The kids had a video chat from Mexico tonight while watching the IU & UK game which was fun! Annabelle is yelling at the TV because she is an IU fan tonight lol.
Bed time is soon, but I have some Christmas Movies recorded to watch and since I was nice and let TR go hunting he will be watching those with me although he does not know that yet!
I do enjoy these litle moments.. Clayton is waving and laughing at his reflection in the window, Annabelle yelling and jumping about a basketball score and TR trying to explain basketball to Clayton who is not listening :0)

My Gingerbread his name is Edward hehe

Annabelle's ornaments for Kelsey, Haley and Ethan

His beard is filling up!

Well my daughter is convinced IU won because she was cheering for them lol So I think I will end on that note lol!

December 9th: of 25 Days of Christmas!!

Not Perfect but I like it :0)

Well I did a craft alone tonight. :0( Miss Annabelle came home sick after school! Fever and Stomache Bug how fun! Clayton is cranky from teething sooo it is a family movie night! Every one needs to know the true meaning of Christmas so we are watching The real Christmas Story, not the "you will shoot your eye out story!" lol. Then we are going to watch some of the ones we recorded on DVR. So we are pretty boring tonight! Hopefully everyone will feel better tomorrow! Upside my house is staying pretty cleaned up since no one is playing lol. Craft tonight more Salt dough Ornaments! Love that stuff!

December 8th I love Handprints :0)

Yes I know I am late ;0) But we had a busy day and night! First Clayton borrowed Baby Jesus from my manger and It took a while to find him lol! I needed to catch up on some work outs while My little teething monster took a nap! I still can not believe he has Molar teeth in!!
So I did a craft also when the kids did! I loved the idea but last night I dropped my frame so now we will be redoing it :0(. We did peppermint hand print keepsakes! I love doing hand print crafts! I will always have those little hands to look back on and of course cry haha.
Annabelle read us Twas the Night Before Christmas, we had left over Hot Chocolate and watched all the Christmas Cartoon Movies on Abc Family! We recorded some to watch over the weekend! TR's 7 days off started sooo guess who has time to help with crafts now? :0)

<==Craft Poem!

<==Kids craft!

<==My craft!

<==and I did this with Clayton's pic Erin took

We had a pretty calm night besides the meltdown Mr. Clayton had when his sister tried to move his toy he was walking with lol.  I love having all this Family Time! I dont think there is anything better and there is no place I would rather be!

December 7th: Hot Chocolate and Handprints :0)

Got alot done today! We listened to xm radio Christmas music on Dish lol while we picked up toys and finished up homework. Annabelle helped get our Crock pot Hot Chocolate ready which was very yummy! Thank you Pinterest!!Our new Scentsy scent White Out really made it smell like winter! Weird right? lol. We made Peanut butter Chocolate Bars recipe from the Cake Doctor, but we used sugar free ingredients :0) Still good by the way! After I cleaned up messes and had supper going it was craft time!
We made Salt dough Hand prints! Ours did not look a good a the picture on Pinterest but oh well we are going to try again onetime soon, but the giggles while doing it was fun to hear! We even made Lucian one! Annabelle's idea is we should take one of Lucian's paw and one of hers and her brothers to her Uncle Greg's grave, that way he knows Lucian is happy with her! She is a very sweet little girl and so strong for what she has been through! So this weekend we are going to go take one to the grave yard with her!

<==Lucian's

<==Clayton's&Annabelle's

After we started the baking process of our crafts we did bath time, play time and supper clean up. Had some Hot Chocolate and dessert. The kids talked to Mamaw Kathy who was rubbing in the temp in Mexico lol but it i okay we want snow!! We added another cotton ball to Santa's beard, which still excites Annabelle each night! Then watched some TV before bedtime. Both kids were out by 8:45! I guess I wore them out this afternoon! Well I guess I will catch up on Dvr while they sleep! Same time tomorrow :0)

December 6th:(yes a day late! These kids keep me busy!)

No craft today :0(
Due to Annabelle's school Christmas Program we had to skip a craft tonight! Annabelle did help me make Homade Veggie Soup though! Then while getting her massive head of hair curled lol we watched The Sanat Claus 3! Very amusing time listening to Clayton try to sing Fa la la at the top of his lungs along with his sister, even Lucian covered his face lol!

<---Lucian had to have a picture too!

<---He look like a little man!(kind of blurry from my phone!)

The Christmas program was cute! They did Twas the Night Before Christmas. Best part of the night was when Clayton spotted his Sissy on stage and very loudly continued to yell Sissy and clap and laugh! he waved once then tried to hide behind another kid haha! I love watching both of them together! he i a very good sister jut want to try and play mommy sometimes! I hope they always stay this close! Oh he even let him wear hi sweater that matched her dress! Very impressive :0) Yep we are very blessed to have these two with us!

Christmas Card Pictures

I decided to dress the kiddos in their Christmas outfits to do a picture to send with our Christmas Cards with the dog lol. Wow what fun that was lol. I will be sending two pictures after I was looking over them and found teh best picture ever lol! It shows the true them! Annabelle making kissie faces, Clayton pulling at the tree and Lucian playing with Clayton! I love those 3! They make me laugh atleast once every few minutes!