The Muppets

We took Kellen to see his first movie in the theater, The Muppets! He did a lot better than I expected. He sat on uncle Keith's lap for most of the show and only got antsy the last 10 minutes or so. Looking forward to watching many more movies together.

Hand-made ornaments

I had several people ask me about the recipe for the home-made ornaments. It's very simple:

1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1/2 cup water

Mix ingredients and roll out. You might need to add extra flour if too wet. Use cut outs. I chose to do hand imprints, so I made cut outs with a circle, then pressed Kellen's hand into the dough. If you want to hang ornaments, use a toothpick to make a hole in the dough before baking. Place on cookie sheet, bake at 275 for 2-3 hours (until dough is hard). Cool cut outs for several hours. I used acrylic paints to decorate. After paint is dry, I sprayed with polyurethane. Let dry. Thread string through hole, ready to hang.

Dirt Digger

My little man loves digging in the dirt. We are enjoying the warmer winter in NC. It's a week till Christmas and the temperature was 69 today!

Gingerbread House

We had quite a time decorating a gingerbread house this year.  Kellen was all about the candy.  He was so sticky by the time we were finished that his hair was even spiked up.  Even so, it still turned out nice. 

 

My Little Elf

Kellen has been having so much fun digging through all the Christmas decorations.  He tries to be very helpful...

oops, this one wasn't a "real" ball. 

Our Christmas tree before decorations,

 and after.

Its a little smaller than usual, but still looks nice.  I love coming in the house and smelling fresh pine. 

Happy Birthday Daddy

Billy celebrated his 30th birthday last week.  Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of the birthday boy, but I did get pictures of Kellen tearing up a piece of chocolate cake and icecream.  YUM - MY!   

Happy Birthday to a wonderful husband and father!  We love you, even if you are 30!

Home Made Ornaments

Since Kellen is getting a little older now, I wanted to start some holiday traditions with him.  So one of the projects that we've done so far is making home made ornaments out of a flour salt dough.  Of course I thought it would be a great idea to do his hand print before he gets to big.  Caution:  This was not as easy as I thought it would be.  Trying to get a toddler to sit still and put his hand in dough was very difficult.  With that said, I still think they turned out pretty good.