Pre-Christmas Fun

We loved having Dan around from mid-December to mid-January! He had a month off from school, and it was amazing having him around each day. It was great for him to be with the kids more, go fun places as a family, and to have help at home. I got to run errands without kids a record number of times! Here are a couple of the things that we were up to before Christmas:

Playing at the Children's Museum:

The Church Christmas party: Elena was one of the angels and we couldn't find her any wings at the stores that we went to. We were worried that they wouldn't have enough at the church, so genius Dan suggested that we make our own with stuff that we already had around the house: a couple of hangers, white fabric, a garland, and a glue gun. It was fun.

Didn't Dan do a good job shaping the hangers into wings?

This is how Elena dressed up her angel wings at home. Complete with princess dress, crown, and The Last Airbender Happy Meal fan.

Elena's preschool pancake breakfast and Christmas party. Kevin enjoyed himself too.

We were geocaching in Virginia before Christmas and I just had to have a family picture in front of the Ocean Breeze ape. We happened to be parked nearby, so we ran over for a quick photo-op.