Santa's Mailbox and Homemade Presents

This week the girls wrote their letters to Santa and we took them over to Santa's Special mailbox that delivers their letters to the North Pole. Emma said she wanted a new bike with training wheels for her baby sister, isn't that sweet! Chloe said she wanted a bird, strawberries and dolly's.
Money is tight this year so I got some ideas from my crafty friend Sarah and did some homemade gifts. This one is some hand sanitizer that Emma helped me decorate for her Kindergarten Teacher.
These are Cocoa bags I put together for the sisters I visit teach. I also attached this poem with it. http://www.sugardoodle.net/Christmas/Hot%20Cocoa%20poems.shtml
This is a notepad for a friend of mine. It says "Merry Christmas from our "Pad" to yours."

I made these church bags for the girls for Christmas.
This is a Quiet time Gospel ABC book for the girls to play with during sacrament meeting.

This is an I Spy bottle. I also made a little picture flip book of the different items that are in the bottle for the girls to find.
This is a catch glove game for the girls to share.

It was a lot of work, but a lot of fun. I hope the girls like their stuff.....

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Ice Ice Baby!

For Family Night on Monday we had the opportunity to take the kids to the Ice show at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine. The theme is "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and everything is made out of ice. The carvers spend a month of 12 hour shifts transforming 2 million pounds of ice into these awesome displays. It was amazing!
They keep it at 9 degrees so it is freezing! They give you these big blue coats to put on top of the coat you are already wearing. Chloe kept falling over and she couldn't get up, we couldn't stop laughing cuz she looked like Randy on The Christmas Story.

"Honey does this coat make me look fat?" Hahahahaha

The girls loved the slide room.
Chloe wouldn't lean back so she went really sloooow.










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