christmas countdown: Day 11, 12, &13

**we have been hit by the violent, vomit flu monster all weekend until today (thurs)

so that is why these posts are all together, we've still been doing activities,

just haven't had time/energy to post them. **

Christmas Countdown:

DAY 11:

make gingerbread houses at Grandma's house

it takes sheer dedication to cram as much candy as possible onto one lil' gingerbread house,

u go Piper...u go.

Belle did well,
 ate as she went but was slow and methodical in her candy placement.

Presley, "helped" everyone by sitting and eating the candy out of the bowls

stinkerface...

Lily made hers pretty perfect and aesthetically correct.

as it should be, ahem.

candy overload!

but they loooooove putting these things together

and the days of nibbling afterwards. figures. ;)

DAY 12:

Make Paper Snowflakes

Fold and cut and fold and cut

these are a few that they did but by the end of the night we had

like 500 bajillion. no joke.

hooray for simple paper & scissor crafts. :)

DAY 13:

Polar Express!

There is a railroad about an hour away from us, up in the mountains that does a 
“Polar Express” ride.

Kids wear jammies and ride the train to the North Pole where u pick up Santa!

On the way they serve you cookies and hot chocolate and sing Christmas carols.

Then Santa gets on board and goes to each child and asks what they want for Christmas and hands them a jingle bell, to "believe" just like the movie!

It’s really sweet and the girls had a lot of fun and were SO EXCITED to do this activity!

Definitely an activity to remember!!

I’d have more pictures but my phone doesn’t have a flash,

and it was dark in the train.

My mother-in-law took some pics so I’ll post those when I get those off her camera. 

i’ll post day 14, 15, & 16 tomorrow!