Some Seasonal Crafting

Reece's family decided to have a homemade gift exchange for christmas.

Each child was assigned an adult to help them make their gifts. We helped

little Jonah and Enoch make gifts for grandma and grandpa. We helped them

make handprints in paint on aprons, which I embroidered a "to" and "from"

next to with matching thread. We also got tote bags and fabric markers

and let them decorate a tote for each grandparent. We then rolled up the aprons

and put them in the totes with tissue paper for under the tree. I did make wooden

block ornaments to tie into the ribbons on each of the tote bags' handles. Each

ornament had a picture of the child on one side; brown, cream, and gold decorative

papers "modge podged" on the other three sides; a ribbon loop for hanging on top;

and a ribbon tassel hanging from the bottom.

Jonah was decorating Grandma's tote, he asked what she liked and we said anything french.

He didnt know anything french so we pulled up some pictures of france to give him ideas,

here is his eifel tower.... and we helped him with his french spelling. He did all the coloring

by himself. I thought it was amazingly adorable. And as you can see.....it was a lot of hard

work.

My family got together one night to do our annual decorating of gingerbread houses.

The little kiddos got busy eating the candy, Kitch and I focused on our houses.

The argyle roof design that I thought up too way longer than I thought but

it was still super fun. I loved the vintage dear that came with the kits.

Jenny dressed up her little boy Sammy as Santa. He was adorable.