The 12 Days of Christmas! Part 1

Partner Author for this Post: Natalie again!

The 1st Day of Christmas in the book!

2nd Day of Christmas in the book! (We organized and put away all our presents and packed away all the non-Christ centered decorations.)

We are making Thank You cards for the 3rd Day of Christmas! 

The 3rd Day of Christmas in the book!

The 4th Day of Christmas is making gingerbread houses. 

Seth's gingerbread house.

Caleb and his friends Sebastian and Anthony' gingerbread house.

Jenna's gingerbread house. 

And my gingerbread house! It was a chocolate factory!

The boys eating their gingerbread house!

Mom's sugar-free gingerbread house. (Sort of. This is just within the criteria for sugar levels of less than 10 grams of sugar per serving and not 1st or 2nd ingredient sugar.)

These are Dutch waffles!

Me eating my gingerbread house!

Not pictured: Handel's Messiah Sing-A-Long for the 5th Day of Christmas! 

Caleb and Dad playing Wii on New Year's Eve. 

These are our journals. We read our blessings and make goals for the new year. 

Here are our family goals!

We are using sparklers as part of New Year's Eve! 

We had a glowing balloon fight! 

We were having an unknown explosion so me and Uncle Jonathan were hiding on the far end of the table. 

Not pictured: The fire alarms went off at midnight after the power went out for a few seconds, and they woke everyone up and everyone was terrified!!

Happy New Year! 

Merry Christmas!

Partner Author for this post: Natalie! 

It was Sunday on Christmas, so we had to go to church for one hour. So we did things a little bit differently. This is Dad opening his upstairs Christmas present. We usually get legos up in our room so Mom and Dad can sleep in until 7. 

We had breakfast in my Mom and Dad's room. 

Seth and Caleb were building their lego sets. 

Me and Jenna were building Jenna's lego set, because I had already finished mine. 

Jenna had laid out her Christmas outfit the night before, and so did I. 

It snowed about like 5 inches on Christmas! We didn't snow shovel so it was hard to get out to the car. Our dad didn't want us to see our Christmas presents so we had to go out the front door. 

This is me in my Christmas dress. 

This is Caleb in his Christmas outfit. 

This is Jenna in her Christmas dress. 

And here's Seth in his Christmas outfit. 

After church we changed back into our pajamas to listen to the rules from Dad about Christmas Day. 

And we were really happy about it! 

This is me opening my presents from my stocking. 

Jenna opening her presents from her stocking. 

We are opening our first presents. 

We are opening the presents from each other. 

I gave Dad a backpacking backpack, and he loved it! 

Opening presents from the cousins. 

I got a bunch of pillows and blankets for Christmas, so I made a large nest in the corner. 

Caleb and Seth got nerf guns, and they nearly destroyed some of the ornaments. 

Seth got stickers and books about trains. 

Jenna got a dress!

I got a book called The Strange Case of the Origami Yoda, and also an origami kit. 

Seth got this adorable owl stuffed animal and he loves it. 

Jenna got her first real bike! 

Abby, our babysitter, gave us a present- a dice game. 

Jenna got this awesome doll castle for her Anna and Elsa barbies that she got earlier. 

And she got the furniture for it. 

I helped her put them all into position. 

Caleb got his own Axis and Allies board game. 

I got an American Girl lego set! 

Dad got a fitness watch thing and he really likes it. It actually tells him when he has calls and stuff!

Mom got a painting. 

And some snacks that hardly have any sugar. 

We got a bounce house! 

And I got an iPod! With sports earphones! 

Caleb got a new iPad because on the other one the screen was cracked and it was really hurting his fingers. 

Jenna also got an iPad! Because she didn't have one. 

Christmas dinner! And Jenna was trying out sparkling cider! She said it was fuzzy. 

Merry Christmas!! And a Happy New Year!