And here goes the third or fourth round of Christmas candy. This time it was orange/coconut fondant to dip in chocolate with our already made mint fondant. We made our second batch of fudge which was succesful and also a double batch of peanut brittle. Kyle and Katie were more than happy to jump in and help.
Here's a snapshot of nightly teeth brushing. Katherine usually misses the sink and spits onto the counter.
We were going to use the gingerbread house kit for FHE but Sunday we needed an after church activity so we dove into the project. I'm surprised the house was finished despite Katherine grabbing candies and eating them every chance she got.
The kids spent an evening with Santa at a company Jeff works with. They got their faces painted and sat on Santa's lap. Well, Katie wouldn't go near Santa but surprisingly Kyle jumped right up and gave a complicated but very detailed description of a flying helicopter that does this "bzzzzz" and has two missiles and so on.....I'm sure it was quoted verbatem from the barrage of toy commercials.
The first time it snowed the snow wasn't wet enough so our snow man is a miniature. Next we made our Christmas countdown chain. I loved doing that in school. The snow stayed around long enough for the boys to sled also. Kyle thought that was so much fun.
Here is the first good snow of the year. For the first time in 3 years the snow was wet enough to pack into a snowman. Jeff and our neighbor Chad had quite a hard time getting the body on top of the base. There was a lot of grunting and blaming for the snowball not moving an inch. Our snowman's hair was made out of chocolate twizzlers--good idea huh?
Here's the boys entertaining themselves with games after church.
Grandma Clark came up to our house Thursday and we made
Here are the boys helping 
