Christmas Week Festivities

With time off from school, Christmas festivities are in full swing. On Tuesday we iced cookies that my wonderful friend, Ann, sent the boys. She not only made sugar cookies, but she sent the icing and sprinkles for the boys to decorate the cookies with. They definitely had a fun time with that!

Casen's decorated cookies

Camden with his decorated cookies

The boys were invited again this year by Shawn's sister, Valerie, to decorate cookies with the McAnear side cousins. So basically Camden and Casens' cousins (Mason and Braden) cousins. Does that make sense??? Anyway, it is a fun tradition they do and we have been fortunate enough to be invited to be a part of it. I always enjoy visiting with my sister's in-laws, and the boys enjoy playing with all the other kids. I think Casen felt a little overwhelmed, since he is the youngest, but he sure took a liking to Grandma Diane. 

The cousins decorating cookies

Casen with his current 'smile for pictures' face

Mason and Kelsi

Braden and Camden

Valerie letting Casen help her pop popcorn
for the popcorn balls

Camden was having a great time

Playing the Pie Face game - Braden got pied
each time it came around to him

Casen was not so sure about the Pie Face
game, so Grandma Diane held him 

While all the other kids were on the trampoline,
Casen was enjoying playing in the pool

When the boys woke up on this morning, they found that Cooper had left them some new pajamas so they wouldn't forget him through out the year. They were really excited and could hardly wait to be able to wear them tonight.

Nana brought the boys a gingerbread house on Monday to decorate, so we took some time today to do that. Camden tends to be a bit OCD like his mother, so he was very particular about where he placed his candies. Casen decorated some, but Camden did the most of it and did a great job!

After going and looking at Christmas lights tonight, the boys put their new pajamas on and said good bye to Cooper. They are already looking forward to his visit next year. They laid out cookies and milk for Santa in anticipation of his visit tonight (which I completely forgot to take a picture of). Here's to hoping they receive toys and not coal this year!