Christmas Crafts

When we were still in Nashville we started to plan out all of the things we would do in Vegas. The nativity, play in the snow, look at lights, make crafts every day. We were rather successful with most everything but when it came to a craft a day... FAIL! I was horrible. We still get our creative juices flowing but not like I had planned. 

 First item of business was to make play doh! (Go figure, E {loves} play doh!) She was really excited to help Grammy make up a batch.

She then got to pick her colors! And off she went to play.

A few minutes later we had to do some surgery. Grammy is awesome and got all of the dough out without having to wash her hair. 

We decorated the door.

We made a few Christmas ornament. E loved picking out the buttons to decorate her tree!

Correction... Trees.

 

We went on a play date to Aunt Shellie's and made ornaments, some of which included a gingerbread man, ghost, and owl. E and I made thumbprint hearts. 

We made a marshmallow Santa. The difficult part was gluing faster than E could eat them. If there was any delay she would gobble them up.

Manfred was all about reaching up on his tippy toes and sneaking the bottoms ones. And that's a wrap! Like I said, I failed but I loved the crafts we did do. Such a busy time of year!

Kids Activites

This week was a bit crazy. This kids got sick and so they stayed home from church, we had the Elders over twice, Jakob flew to Little Rock for an interview over night and Mom Tobler arrived on the 21st. We were in full get-ready-for-Grammy-and-to-travel-to-North-Carolina mode but that didn't stop us from having fun. 

Monday:

I asked E if she wanted to make hand print turkey's. She said no thank you so I decided I would make one. Once she saw me making mine, she had to have a turn painting her hand. She was so cute!! 

I just love the paint on her face. A true artist. 

Our final product. Gobble Gobble.

Tuesday:

 I read the following meme's on Facebook and I had to share. This is pretty much how our day went. 

This one especially relates to Duke. So instead of cleaning we did this...

Nothing quite like emptying all of the toys out of the toy box and playing hide and seek. :)

Wednesday:

E and I make a footprint turkey. She decided that she didn't want to make the center footprint so I just used my hand to make it. He turned out pretty cute regardless. 

Thursday:

E has been making me cakes all week for my birthday out of play doh. She gets them all pretty, adds some frosting, sticks a candle in them, insists that I wear a birthday hat, and then sings me happy birthday but she gets to blow out the candle. It is so cute and if a truly ate as many cakes as she has made for me, I would be the size of a house!

Friday:

Both Grammy and Daddy returned home and we did a lot of playing. E's new favorite game to play with Grammy is "Hide and Seek Princess" where Grammy hides her pegs princesses around the house. So glad that Mom and Jakob and back!! So looking forward to going to North Carolina for Thanksgiving!!