The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year!

Brandon and I love baking and making fun Christmas treats! John is very happy that we enjoy baking so much because he loves to eat the mistakes! ;) This year we made some "krispy trees" for the Cub Scouts.

For Brandon's class we made Rudolph cookies. :)

The other morning it sure felt like Christmas! It almost looked like there was snow on our roof!

Brandon's teacher always has such creative ideas. For the class Christmas party she had them all "sew" big stockings. Then everyone brought in 30 little prizes (one for each child in the class) so they could help fill each others stockings.

After the party, the second graders put on a special Christmas program called

"Elfis and the Sleigh Riders." John and I sat in the front row. :)

Brandon is in the top row, second in from the right.

John's first school event as a dad. :) It is just awesome having him in our lives.

The next day was Brandon's first day of Christmas vacation! Yahoo! We sent a letter to Santa asking him if he could come early to our house. We told him that we would not be home on Christmas day, that we would be in Southern California visiting our family. He got the message and so we prepared for his arrival by making muffins.

A plate for the reindeer. Brandon arranged it all by himself. :) A tiny carrot for each reindeer (except Rudolph gets two!) and a big crunch bar (plus a couple veggies on top) for Comet.

Muffins and broccoli for Santa. Brandon really thought that we should give

Santa some broccoli for "health" as he put it. ;)

My boys just snuggling.

Our Christmas morning! Santa came and brought Brandon some great stuff! He was one happy boy. He loved the shark hat and slippers most! He just had to wear them over to his buddies house later that day.

Edible snowflakes?!

Our first Christmas as a family!

We had a great little Christmas together.

We can't wait to see our families and celebrate all over again!