A Failed Attempt/Preston is Lame

Tonight we headed out to do Christmas Activity #8. Every year we go to Preston to see the Christmas lights. There is a house there that we have been going to for several years. You may have seen it. It's at the Hollingsworth farm. They have amazing lights and several cute scenes featuring various Disney characters. Well, this year they didn't put up all their decorations. They had lights but none of the scenes. Major bummer. To try and salvage our night of looking at Christmas lights, we headed to the Preston city park area where they usually have some cute Christmas displays. But this year, no - nothing but darkness. We headed to Arctic Circle to get brown toppers for the kids and that was that. Now I will have to try to talk Kile into going to Willard to see their light show. I think that perhaps I will check in advance this time to make sure there is actually something to see.

Activity #7

Tonight, we wrapped Christmas Presents.
Destrie is really excited and asked if he could open his present today.
Waiting until Christmas Eve is going to be hard for him.

Activity #6

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING!!!

Each year we draw names in our family. I am happy to say that tonight everyone found and bought a present for the person they have this year.

Kile buys for Madee
Jen buys for Destrie
Kiley buys for Jen
Madee buys for Kile
Destrie buys for Kiley

Yay! So glad to have that done. One more thing I can cross off my list.

Activity #5

We watched "Christmas Vacation". This show is hilarious! We watch it several times each Christmas Season. It is always funny no matter how many times we watch it.

Activity #4

Today we wrote letters to Santa.


A note from Kiley.



Madee's letter.



Kiley's list.





Destrie's letter to Santa.

Activity #3

We listened to Christmas Music while we cleaned. Anyone know where to find some really good Christmas Music? The stuff on on our TV was kind of hit and miss.

Activity #2

We read the "Night Before Christmas". We also put up Homer Claus and turned on the outside lights. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!