Church Christmas party

Grandma was in town for almost three weeks over the holidays!

She and my Dad came for Thanksgiving and then she stayed to

take care of the boys while we were gone on our redneck honeymoon. hehe

It is always a treat when we get to spend time with the grandparents!

Our ward party was also a real treat. Someone was a genius and had

the all the fixings for graham cracker houses sitting out on all the tables

for kids and families to work on while waiting for everyone to arrive the festivities

to start. Any LDS person will tell you that this time is usually filled with

kids running through the gym and playing on the stage and true chaos.

So this was Brilliant!

Please don't get worried looking at Callan's expression that he didn't get a house. He has that  perfectly good house sitting there on the table, made by yours truly, but  he had fallen asleep in the car on the way there and was too grumpy to participate for a little while.

Our fabulous babysitter has 2 daughters and one of them is named  Chelsea and she and  Callan flirt endlessly and are best buds and will most likely get married someday.
So here they are sitting and watching the primary nativity program.
 A friend of ours made this special hat for Callan out of the napkins because he was sad that he too
didn't have a costume to wear like his brothers. I don't know what kind of character he thought he was, but boy it was a special one!

Creed had the honor of being Joseph in the program. A role he took very serious. He stood their stone faced the entire time and had the appropriate amount of hand/shoulder contact with Mary throughout.

The boys in their getup. Another great use for the Jedi robes my mom made them a few years ago for Christmas!