Christmas Shinanigans

The kids decided to have a little get together to exchange their gifts with the "BFF's".  We did all kinds of crafts and fun stuff. We started off making little Christmas trees out of pine cones and glitter.

 This is Shelby and her friend Justine working on theirs.

 I honestly didn't think the boys would want to do the crafts, but they actually came over and decorated a tree. Now granted, the girls took a good 25 minutes to decorate theirs and the boys took a good 25 seconds...but Hey, they did it!

 After our first little craft, the suspense was KILLING them, so we had our gift exchange.

 Shelby gave Justine a matching Aeropostale shirt. Justine was quite stoked about this!! Shelby was pretty excited for the 5th Diary of a Wimpy Kid book!

 Preston and Zac! Preston got a bunch of plastic bugs and animals. He really liked those but he wanted to make sure that I understood that the plastic lizard wasn't gonna cut it for Christmas...he wants a real one!!

 I just love these 3 girls!!! Tatum is the one in the green socks and Ryann is in the teal. You know how 3 is usually a crowd with little girls? Well these 3 work perfectly. They can all play for hours with ZERO bickering or leaving one out. They all like each other equally which, let's face it, generally doesn't happen.  We got quite a kick out of Ryann and those socks. She's very tiny, so the knee socks covered her ENTIRE leg with a little extra at the top!!

 I even made home made cookies...from scratch..not pre-made dough....I KNOW, RIGHT??? Stop the presses!!! I'm not a baker! I can cook..but I can't bake to save my life. BUT these cookies were dang good if I do say so myself!

  

Next we did another craft.

The boys weren't at all interested in this one though. They LOOOOOVE to play the Wii together. (Preston wanted to stay with "Jana Miwwett" while the rest of us went to Disneyland this summer so he could just play Wii with Zac all week!)

 What would a Christmas party be without a snowball fight? Well....the weather hasn't exactly been cooperating with us lately on that front, so we decided to have an indoor snowball fight. By snowballs I mean white foam craft balls! (For the record:those suckers kinda hurt when you get smacked in the face with one!!!!) This was towards the end of the fight and Justine was on sensory overload, so she had gone into Shelby's room to play.


The kids had a GREAT time!!!!