December Days

The days of December always seem to fly by!  It is such a fun time of year.

Bubble baths were Ava and Will's favorite past time.

 There was a lot of Ho ho hoing going on with their bubble beards.

 We made gingerbread houses one Sunday evening.  I was lazy and just bought a kit this year.  It was a kit for a gingerbread village, so all the houses look more like gingerbread shacks.

 Here's the whole gingerbread village completed.

 We had tithing settlement on a Tuesday night.  I was just going to take the kids in their jammies, but Mr. Ex-bishop said that the bishops office and the chapel are the two places in the church building that you should always be in Sunday dress.  Who knew?  Not me!  So we got the kids dressed and forced Will to wear a tie.  And I am glad we did!  He has loved wearing a tie ever since!  He went from absolute melt down about a tie to being so proud of wearing one!!  Blessings of obedience! :)

 We had to wait a while at the church for our appointment.  So Will was super entertained by redecorating this Christmas tree.

 So handsome in his tie!!

 The girls were entertained by the discovery of the selfie!

 Scary discovery!

 Oh that crazzzy Ava!

 Lily took these close ups of the ornaments, I thought they were quite artistic!

 This lady from another ward was thoroughly entertained by my kids antics.  She kept giggling.  They were pretty funny.

 I like this one with the tree and the picture of Jesus.  Such a great representation of the season.  

 And here is our great bishop. The only way we got Will to put on his tie is that he thought for some weird reason he was going to get a backhoe (I didn't tell him that, sometimes I do lie to my kids to get them to do something, but this time that was not the case!)  So during tithing settlement Will kept saying, I'm going to get a backhoe! Lucky, for us, the bishop had lots of treats that he was very liberal with giving out.  So Will got chocolate instead of a backhoe.  :)

Thank goodness for bishops!