December, part the first

So exciting when the Christmas presents start to arrive.... this was a project that deserves its own blog post.  😊

When Perrin plays with the Nativity set there is much growling and people falling over. 

It snowed! 

They played in it briefly. 

Perrin wasn't too sure at first, but then he didn't want to come inside.  He looks like he's ready to go winter camping in the Boundary Waters with Grandpa. 

Perrin needed a hair cut.  I attempted to give him a hair cut.

Poor boy, Bob said he looked Amish.  Haha.  So we called Aunt Mike and she was gracious enough to do a little fixing.

The three middles planned a ballet and were busily rehearsing...

and writing up programs...

Note the asterisks at the bottom. 😂  Unfortunately, their creative differences were insurmountable and the performance was cancelled.  Hehe. 

We went Christmas caroling and ended up at Linden and got to see Christina at work!  That was fun, and helped the girls not to be so uncomfortable... mostly.  :)

We were at the farm for Jack's birthday and I was trying to figure out what kind of sockets this fixture needs and thought this angle was kind of cool.  :)  (The cloth covering on the wires is disintegrating, so I'm going to attempt a rewire at some point.)

 

And because I'm becoming an antique lighting geek- I found the original catalog page for this fixture!  And mom casually mentioned that there were two more in the attic!  What?!  Haha.  So originally at the farm the sunroom had the three light fixture (still there), and the dining room and living room had matching five light fixtures.  So cool. 

 

 

I took the older three to the Hometown Christmas.  It was pretty fun. 

The lights were so pretty, and it wasn't super cold.  We didn't attempt to eat there, just did some crafts.

And met Olaf, and sang carols. 

Buster Brown busy 'helping.'

Aunt Shelly made my Dad a Wyss Farms shirt for Christmas, and we all got them too.

The girls fell in love with the Maileg mouse house and thought they neeeeeded it for Christmas, but it's expensive and there was a black Friday deal on a similar, unfinished house.  So even though I didn't need another project, I ended up decorating a cute little mousy house for them. 

Trees always look smaller at the lot...

Such good help.  :)

Perrin was asleep while we decorated- ooo, look! look! 

Just a little painting.

And coloring on top of sisters art works. 😜

We baked and frosted cookies.

There were even some cookies decorated a la uncle Jakey.

One of our Christmas books is a retelling of the Christmas story with matching Christmas hymns and the pictures are of kids practicing for and putting on a Christmas pageant.  So they set up their own scene. :)

Perrin behaved about as well as the 'baby Jesus' does in the book and it made me laugh. 

 

So the loggers finished all the logging!  It was a new crew and they worked 5x as fast as the previous crew.  I took a few of the kids out to check it out the next day. 

One perk is the nice paths that the equipment leaves- makes walking easier, even in the mud.

They had an order for sycamore wood, and asked if they could take two of ours... 😢

Quite a stack of logs. 

We managed to be ready for the Christmas program in time to take a picture.

Or something. 😂

For our anniversary, Bob asked Megan if she would be willing to do a custom painting for us, since she's a really good artist.

Four seasons, based on our backyard.  :)  They're so cool.  Now I just need to figure out where to hang them. 

 

The day after the church program was the Grade school program.  Perrin and Miri spent the whole time crawling all over the bleachers.

And Grandma brought stickers, so that helped.

I took the two littles with me to pick something up across the river so we went out for lunch.  Perrin spilled chocolate milk down his shirt twice.

And Miri needed to go the bathroom which is always stressful with a toddler in tow. 

Day three of programs/concerts was the Middle School band and chorus concert.  Perrin stayed home with Bob because there is no way he would be quiet enough the third night in a row.  :P  The girls could have been quieter too, but we had more stickers, and Julia was there also...

Three eye appointments- the only one who needed glasses got the exact same pair as last time, and the two who don't tried on every pair they could. 

Why yes, I did let Perrin eat a springerli by the Christmas tree, because, he was eating a whole springerli! 

We let the girls pick out gifts for their siblings at Dollar tree, which is always funny. 😋

Blessings.