Making the Holidays Sweeter

The girls were not really interested in helping me make the holiday candy. Which was fine with me since it ends up being more of a chore and a mess with all the extra little hands. However, Lola was intrigued when she heard the banging start and had to come investigate. Next thing I know I had a little girls VERY eager to help. She really enjoyed "crushing" the candy canes for mommy. I just hope she wasn't picturing Sophie while she was banging away.

Yes...that is a Mr. Hanky in the midst of the gingerbread men and bears.

These are the Christmas ornaments I made for everyone this year. They are old wooden spools that I painted then stamped names onto. Then they were strung with twine and I added some strips of material for decoration.

The Great Present Race

I was in charge of Lola's Class Holiday Party. The game I decided to do was an unwrapping relay race. The kids were divided into teams and raced across the gym. They had to unwrap a present, pull out the beaded necklace that was inside and wear it, then throw away the paper and race back to their teammate and tag them.
They had a blast...unfortunately I didn't get very many good pics of the race due to the chaos. The rest of the pics are from the rest of the party, which also happened to be the girls last day at Durbin. Lola was very sad to leave her best friend Ellie.

Lola and her BFF Ellie

Ellie Lola and Avidon (he was in love with Lola)

Lola and Miss Pinkus

Santa on the Square

I decided to take the girls to the square in downtown Noblesville to try and take a picture for a holiday card. When we parked we noticed a few people standing outside of the cottage. Guess who was inside....SANTA!!!! The girls were so excited. Sophie asked for the book, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Dog Days" and Lola asked for a pink Nintendo DS.

You may be wondering why you never got a holiday card from us. No, you weren't left off of our list. I never got around to actually making the cards. I did get some wonderful pictures of the girls though.

Durbin Breakfast with Santa

The girls got to meet Santa...again. This time at the Durbin breakfast. We enjoyed pancakes then the girls got to go from table to table to table to make Christmas crafts.

They made frames to hold their pictures with Santa.

Lola and Mommy Time

Lola and Mommy got to decorate her gingerbread girl to be hung up in her classroom at school. We could use anything but markers, pens, pencils or crayons. We ended up using Pez, coffee filters, whole coffee beans, green sugar, spaghetti, macaroni, poof balls, sequins, red twine, yarn and of course a drink umbrella.

We decided to have fun one morning and roll Lola's hair in curlers before school.
Super Cute!

Matthews Thanksgiving 2010

Lola made the table decorations and place cards.

Cody Kyley and Leah

Avery Eme and Soph

Sophie took a picture of Nana

Kyley with Uncle Brice and Aunt Cascie

Kyley and Eme playing together

Nana and Sophirella

Nana and Lolabug

Lola loves Maw's hands

Brian and Paw

Family Thanksgiving Hands for Lola's Class

Lola came home from Kindergarten with brown and yellow paper. It was a family project. Each member had to trace, cut-out and decorate their own hand. The we were supposed to connect them all together to hang in Lola's classroom. (I have to admit Brian's is my favorite.)

Sleeping Lola

Lola fell asleep in our bed with her balloon that she got at the surgery center.