Christmas fun

We have had such a fun couple of days.

The kids were able to make some fun crafts at school and they all had some fun parties in their classes.  Thursday they got to ride the bus to the district office and watch Santa fly in on a helicopter.  The whole school got to go as a reward for doing all their reading. Then they were out early Friday to begin their Christmas vacation.

We had an ugly sweater contest at the Branch family Christmas party as well as a visit from Santa.  We had so much fun visiting with old Saint Nick (aka Rory Bradley) and decorating our ugly sweaters.  Rory actually won the Ugly Sweater contest and his took about 30 seconds to make and wasn't even an actual sweater (see picture).  The day before the party Debbie, Nicole, and I took the kids down to the church to bake.  The boys played ball in the gym while the girls helped us bake in the kitchen.  We made a variety of goodies and they all turned out so yummy.  That night I went to a girls night to Britt's and watched the Time Out for Women broadcast.  While there I was able to make Christmas gifts for my Young Women.  I found this awesome saying on Pinterest, so I printed it out and put it in a frame and tied a cute ribbon around it.  I think they turned out so cute and I was so excited to give the Young Women a gift from our presidency that I felt was very meaningful.

 The elf on the shelf has continued to visit us and play silly tricks on us.  Just recently he hung Christmas lights around the bathroom mirror and wrote a note to the kids.

We have had such a wonderful holiday season and I can't believe Christmas will be here in 2 days.