Gingerbread houses

Every year we decorate Gingerbread Houses. I had figured we couldn't afford three separate Gingerbread houses this year, but yet I hated to give up our tradition. I was thrilled when I found a mini village for the price of just one house. Yes, the houses are mini, but they were perfect for us. Below is our village. As soon as Papi and I decorate our houses, it'll be a complete village.

E chose the challet and she is ready.

Each piece of candy was purposefully placed on the challet.

I loved seeing E covered in her frosting and candy!

D chose to decorate the church.

He had a plan in mind.

Doesn't he look so handsome in this picture?!?!?

L chose one of the houses.

Her finished decorated house showed her creativity. I love watching E use her imagination! God has truly gifted her in this area.

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

We had fun decorating our tree!

So proud of their decorating job!

Happy Birthday to you my 3 year old!

"3" cinnamon rolls
Papi lights candles.

singing Happy Birthday

gifts

L watches as E opens a gift from her.

D also picked out a gift for E.

E inside her new tent.

Ballerina Girl

Happy Birthday!!

E turned three this past weekend!
She's showing 3 fingers (in case you couldn't tell).
Check out her cute outfit. She chose it.

Ballet slipper pinata

and birthday balloons!! E was so excited to have balloons for her party.

L enjoyed the balloons as well.

My two ballerinas

First Game: Pass the ballet slipper

Musical chairsCousins

Ballerina cousins

Pinata time!

E blows out candles on her ballet slipper cake

Birthday presents

E models her new ballet outfit

Thanksgiving

Since our turkey meal was to be on Saturday this year, we were able to spend the actual Thanksgiving day in a non-traditional way. I was so excited because I have wanted to do this for so long, yet it's never worked out.

We had the opportunity to serve at Mission Arlington. Here we are ready to go.
We stood in line with lots of other people also waiting to serve. After about 1 1/2 hours we were given our assignment.
We gathered the turkeys and food boxes and delivered them to two different houses. It didn't seem like much, but I'm so glad we got to participate as a family!

Keeping busy in November

We have been so blessed to be part of a homeschool group. They normally do one kid day a month. However, this month they slipped in an extra day, a Pumpkin Party! L was at school so D and E got to participate.

The first activity was decorating cookies. I was so glad to see they could eat the frosting and sprinkles. So,
I let them decorate and then

lick off the frosting. They were in heaven!!

We played hot "pumpkin" and D was the first one in the middle.

Then some pumpkin bowling followed by...

Mini "pumpkin" golf and to end it all

Parachute pumpkins!

Next activity was just for L...a POW WOW at her school!

This is the Turtle Class (L is on the front row on the left).

L was so excited when she walked into the pow wow.

She then sat with her clas and learned about the Indians. At the end her class did the cutest turkey song!

Then, just today, we went to a First Thanksgiving Feast. This was with our Homeschool Group and the idea was to recreate the first thanksgiving with foods they would have used, games they would have played and clothes they would have worn.

D chose to be an Indian Chief.

E poses with her Indain headdress.

L wore her Indian attire from her pow wow. All the kids got to make a "toss and catch" game that the pilgrims and/or Indians would likely have played.