Family Fun

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Gingerbread House

Kate and I (with a little help on the building from Dan) put together this gingerbread house this morning. I actually cheated and bought the kit online. Kate had fun "gluing" the candy on. Overall, it doesn't look nice and neat but it was a successful first try.

Dan's Man Space Makeover...

My parents flew here a couple of weeks ago to build a storage loft in our Garage for Dan as our Christmas present. Dan's Dad drove down for the weekend as well. Here are a few pictures from the project:

Here is one more from the Children's Christmas Party...to show the decorated helicopter:

Dan and I got dressed up for the adult party and tried to take a few family pictures before we went out. Not the best idea I've had but here is one of the better pictures:

HSC 22 Children's Christmas Party

A friend and I were not using our "pregnant" brains very well and volunteered to organize Dan's command's Children's Christmas Party. We (with A LOT of help from the command and other spouses) decorated the hangar and one of the helicopters to turn it into sort of a Christmas Carnival. There were games and craft events and most importantly, Santa's arrival via helicopter. I think these children will grow up thinking Santa delivers his presents from a helicopter but it was fun for all (including the adults). Here are a few pictures from the day.

This was our back drop set up in one of the helicopters for pictures with Santa:

Santa's arrival:

My Mom graciously volunteered to man the playdough booth. I think some of the adults enjoyed it more than the children:

Kate's visit with Santa:

Dan and Kate (with her binoculars) looking for Santa:

Trying to catch up...

It has been a while since I updated this. Life just seems to get away from me sometimes. I'm going to post some pictures from our December events. The first is from Kate's school program. The teachers did a wonderful job preparing the kids and Kate really did a nice job. The program was mostly singing of fun children's christmas/holiday music (including Kate's favorite Frosty the Snowman and the Dreidle song) followed by the kids that take a dance class putting on a little dance show. She did really well. Here are a few pictures from the dance portion (the singing ones didn't turn out very well).