Budding Artist?

Upon arriving home from work the other day, I found Sunshine hard at work drawing on her easel.  She really loves to draw using chalk! I can hardly wait until we have a permanent place to keep this set up all the time for her!

I was astonished at the person she drew! It is her first one and I am so proud of her!!!  Look at all those body parts: eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hair, arms, and legs! WOW!!!

O' Christmas Tree

Our tree is step up and awaiting the arrival of baby Jesus and Santa.

As I pulled all of the ornament boxes out of the basement, Sunshine was like a kid in a candy store! So cute and excited to place them on the tree!  She kept grabbing ornaments and asking if they were glass or not. She was so careful as she placed them on the tree.  Of course, several were dropped, but thankfully none broke.  

Bright Nights

We (DH, Sunshine, my parents, and myself) took the VERY long drive to go see Bright Nights on Dec 4.  It was a lovely evening that included the singing of Christmas carols and the noshing of popcorn.  It is about a 2 hour drive for us so we stopped on the way down for dinner. On the way home we set up a Christmas movie for Sunshine to watch with Nunny and Papa; I had made a couple of bags of microwave popcorn before we left for them to enjoy while watching the movie.

Bright Nights was AMAZING and well worth the drive. Sunshine oohed and ahhed from the back seat as we drove through the park.  We saw many sights, including dinosaurs, snowmen, the Cat in the Hat, Santa, and many others!!

Here are a few of the pictures:

Christmas Fun Fair!

Our good friends Evan and Sheryl told us about a Christmas Fair that was happening this past Friday at the school Sheryl teaches at. It was REALLY cute! There was one room that you could go shopping in and another room for games/crafts.  The crafts and games were all on a ticket system; each ticket was .25 or 5 for $1.00.  She chose to decorate a ginger bread cookie and make two crafts.  One of the crafts was a penguin thermometer and the other a foam snowman.  

Book Exchange

We recently took part in a Christmas Book Exchange hosted by The Activity Mom.   Sunshine's book arrived Dec 1, which tied right in with our Advent Calendar! Here is Sunshine opening her book!  

As you can see, she was quite excited about her new book!!!  

Thank you to our partner!!!!