My mom came to visit us during the first week of December. It was her first time out here during the holiday season so it was fun to share some of our traditions with her.
Of course no visit from Grandma Julie would be complete without a little gift straight from her suitcase...
The kids loved having Grandma come to school and eat lunch with them up on the stage.
They were even more excited that we brought Subway sandwiches with us!!
Abby enjoyed showing off her competition wear for gymnastics...
And even demonstrated some of her amazing flexibility!
My mom loves the fact that Abby and Landon are so creative just like she is. They spent many hours creating lots of fun craft projects together!
There is something about these curlers that kids really like. They built some pretty elaborate creations with them.
On Friday, December 6th we attended our Ward Christmas party. It was a nice evening complete with dinner and some spirit-filled entertainment.
The next morning we headed over to Home Depot to do another Kid's Build project.
This time we made some Tic-Tac-Toe game boxes to take home.
Even Nolan enjoyed getting in on the action!
After Home Depot, we headed over to Jason's work where Citi was holding their annual Kid's Christmas party. This year's theme was Candyland and it was adorable!
Jason helped to build this fun maze out of appliance boxes...
And no Citi party would be complete without some balloon animals/swords (even if they did start to pop within 10 minutes of getting them!)
Our annual picture with Santa didn't turn out quite as planned. Nolan wanted no part of the big red man nor his wife and Landon decided he would rather not get near him either so at first it was just Abby who was our only willing participant.
Then a promise of a lollipop created some extra motivation for Landon to join in on the fun (no, we are not above bribing!!) But no amount of bribing could convince Nolan!
This pet kennel comes in pretty handy to control this little animal as well!
On Sunday, we got a pretty good amount of snow and church was cancelled. We stayed at home and enjoyed working on projects and watching church movies all day. School ended up being cancelled on Monday and Tuesday as well which was perfect for the kids to be able to spend more time with Grandma before she headed to Virginia to spend a week with my sister and her new baby. During their time off from church/school, Abby and Landon completed these fun little plastic canvas projects which they were quite proud of...
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What a fun Grandma they have. Looks like y'all had a blast while she was there.
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