Our Weekend

We had a nice weekend, but again very busy. Saturday morning Andy was helping a friend move. Then we had the children's Christmas choir rehearsal. Kara gets a few words and then she just opens mouth and pretends to sing. Aaron, however, is quite the caroler. He knows the words to two of the four songs. The other two songs he knows most of the words and he was very good at singing. I can't wait to hear them sing at church. It will be nice.

Then we had Aaron's pack meeting. They had a cookie making contest so Friday night Aaron and I baked chocolate chip cookies. He was really a good chef. He didn't like putting them on the cookie sheet though, so I did that part. Anyway the meeting was cute and chaotic. They played a game called snowflake, where the boys eat powdered donuts but they can't use their hands. That was funny. Aaron had powdered sugar on the back of his shirt.

At the ready:

Listening to the instructions:

There it goes:

Success:

Yummy!

On Sunday we went to Landmark Park for their Victorian Christmas. They had demonstrations at the blacksmith shop and they were making syrup too (not at the blacksmith shop but in a different cabin). My favorite part was the schoolhouse. They had crafts set up where you could make your own turn of the century Christmas decorations.

Here is Aaron stringing popcorn and cranberries.

Here's us learning to make a simple corn husk doll.

Aaron hanging his doll on the tree.

Here is Kara's doll.

They also had a craft where you could make your own mistletoe decoration, but the kids didn't want to do that. For that one you took a sprig of mistletoe, a small pine branch and a stalk of cotton, then tied it together with strips of fabric. It was very neat looking.

After that we went on a wagon ride. We were pulled by a team of two Clydesdale horses. Very pretty but very huge animals. It was a very nice time.

The Wagon Ride: