keeping it real

i kinda feel like we're doing even more christmas activities over here to make it feel like christmas since it doesn't really look like christmas outside or in our house, and we are loving it! christmas "wreaths" at the family center.....

put some spray foam in a cup wrapped in tin foil and stick branches and decorations into it and voila.....christmas wreaths!

thankfully, the family center has a little park in the back for the non-wreath making type, and if anyone has some good stain removing tips, i'm hoping to get some serious stains out of my play hard non-wreath maker can't sit still for longer than a minute little maddie boy!

we can't do christmas without gingerbread houses! we missed the $10 kits for sure and our poytress/lujan gingerbread crew for sures, but we made do just fine :)

beckam was in his element while dust took tips along the way....

and maddox, well he was just into the decorations themselves!

dust's "house" was more like a box in the end, but maddox didn't care as long as it was covered in icing and candy and put on his tray!

beckam was meticulous about his decorating and aggressive about his tasting - love it!

sadly.....our masterpiece didn't last :( 5 minutes after the finished product picture was taken, it looked like this.....

and i know have a new favorite picture thanks to the crashing gingerbread house! we were kinda sad it fell down.....

haha didn't really matter since the ants discovered and swarmed it a hour later, but making gingerbread houses with christmas music in the background with our little sun tanned caribbean family was pretty awesome :)