Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Happy Birthday Brian!

Brian turned 40 on the 17th of December. We got together on the 19th to celebrate with brownies and Ice cream

~Happy Birthday old man~

Jared and I got him a gift card to one of his favorite woodcrafting store

I hope that he had a great birthday.

The Elves

On December 19th my mom and decided to go to Gardner Village to find all the elves. It wasn't really cold and it was fun walking around and going in all the shops


Candy Cart


A piano playing elf


Ice skating elves

He fall down go boom



An elf trying to light up the Christmas tree


The two elves trying to hold up the elf putting on the lights



An elfish camp


Snorin' away


Bubble bathing elf


A barber elf



Trimmin' the tree


Ropin' elf


Elves hunting trees



Merry Christmas elf


Elf selling candy canes

Elfish band
decorating elves



Just Gardner Village



Gathering letters


Mistletoe elf

Sledding elf



Spectator elf


Announcer elf


Score!!!

We missed seeing the elf with the airplane so I had to go back. This picture was taken with my cell phone.

I like all of the decorations that they have at Gardner Village and it is fun to just walk around, especially during the holidays

Monday, December 21, 2009

Gingerbread houses

Every year the kids come over and we put together gingerbread houses. We hav been doing this for a few years now and the kids really enjoy it and I do as well.




Jared got involved this year by helping the kids put the houses together.














Cheyenne really got into it this year








The final results are in


Kaitlyn displays her finished product


Cheyenne and I worked on this together



Eryk's house



I think they ate more candy than the put on their houses