So, trying something new again here.
I thought it would be fun to share a few pics and update on what we did this week. The plan is to do this every week, but, well, you know how good I am at posting on my blog. Ha!
Anyway, here's a bit of what we did this week. We've been having unbelievably nice weather for December, so we've been spending lots of time outside. LOVE it!
The beginning of the week we got out our tree and did some decorating for Christmas. We have a small fake tree that we had for our small Oregon home. Last year we went with a real tree which was amazing, but decided to be lazy and just use our fake one this year. Since it's so small, there's not really room for everything on it so we decided to put up a string on a bare patch of wall to hang all of the cute ornaments the girls have made over the years. I love how it turned out, and the girls like that all their work is on display.
Ellie is our little artist and was messing around with our dry erase boards one day and came up with this. She has been working hard on writing her letters and asked her sister to help her spell "Merry Christmas". Then she added a reindeer (Rudolph to be exact) and a tree.
The girls also helped me make our favorite peppermint fudge this week. They love to be in the kitchen learning how to make things. You can find the recipe for our fudge here.
Since the weather was super nice all week, we hurried to get our school work done in the mornings so we could spend the afternoons outside. We took a walk or bike ride almost everyday.
We had fun checking out the plants and how they look this time of year, and also just enjoying the scenery. The sky has been so amazingly blue!
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On one of our walks we gathered a bunch of sticks for making rustic stars. I can't take full credit for it as I saw something similar on Pinterest. But we certainly had fun making them our own.
Hannah came up with the idea to make hers into a snowflake instead. She did a fabulous job! And of course I somehow don't have a picture of the finished product. *sigh*
Ellie had to have a little help, but she did great too!
It was great to sit out in the yard in our t-shirts and soak up the sunshine while we worked!
This next week is looking like it's going to be a fun one too...
Working on Christmas presents, making "crystal" snowflakes, maybe some ice skating, and then going to the Nutcracker ballet with Nana!
Hope you all have a blessed week! Be sure to check back in case I follow through with another post! LOL!
Blessings!
