Monday, December 15, 2008

Home for the Holidays

We have been having fun this holiday season! Beginning with Halloween, kids LOVE to dress up! This year, Alex was a ninja, AGAIN. No surprise there. Camryn did surprise us with her choice of the dead bride..far cry from years past. We made silly pumpkins the lazy parents way. No scooping or removal of seeds involved! And the kids thought their pumpkins were better than the carved ones. They celebrate Wyoming Day here (who'd a thought!) and Alex's class all did research on people that had an impact on Wyoming history. They dressed up in costumes like the people they researched and read about what they did and how they shaped Wyoming history. Our son chose Custer...it was kind of hard for us to come up with a costume being city slickers and all...we had to borrow the hat! Thanksgiving was great. We had a dinner at home with just the 5 of us. The girls helped with the turkey. Camryn loves to make the stuffing, and she always names the bird. Her very favorite part is rubbing butter on the poor thing. She never gets enough of giving the turkey a massage. We put the tree up late, we have been very busy. But that is no excuse to our children. I have made up by letting them decorate the gingerbread house Grandma Peg sent. So far so good...and all my shopping is done!!! Bring on the Santa!