Christmas Eve

Every Christmas Eve we go to Gma Cathy's house! We eat lots of snacks, watch Christmas movies, and play the dice game. 

The dice game is you all sit around in a cirlce with a whole bunch of presents in the middle. You take turns rolling dice. If you roll a double, you pick a gift from the middle. This goes on until all the gifts are gone. Then there is a minute long round where if you roll a double, you can steal a gift from someone else. At the end, you open the gifts you have.   

This year we watched A Christmas Carol (the one with Patrick Stewert), Elf, and Home Alone.

Then we played the dice game! Lots of fun little goodies and treats. 

The rest of the evening we spent watching the Christmas movies, Timothy and Gma played the piano, and we all snacked until our bellies were bursting. 

After getting home from Gma Cathy's house, we took our annual Christmas sweater family photo! Usually we do this way earlier in the month, but the day we were suppose to do it I had a headache, and then we got busy and had to leave it till the last minute! Thankfully we had the time to take one. I love looking at all of our Christmas sweater photos from years past, and I would have been really sad if we had forgotten to take on this year!

Time to get the hosue cleaned up and ready for Christmas! The kiddos might feel too old to make and leave reindeer food, but they're not to old to leave out a drink and cookies for "Samta." hahaha

It was a wonderful, relaxing Christmas Eve. We are ready for Christmas! 

With love

Mama Hauck 

Our Christmas Advent Fun

We had a lot of Christmas advent fun this month! I didn't get photos of every day, and to be honest, we had to skip some days altogether due to busy schedules, but the activities we did log this month were extra fun! 

We.......

Played the story telling gift passing game! 

Baked cookies! 

Went to a movie! We saw Ghostbusters. 

Baked and decorated gingerbread ninjas! Houses are too hard, lol. 

Had a family hot tub night complete with fire, hot chocolate or a soda, and Christmas music! 

Had a family game night! We got the kids a game about meme pictures and phrases. We had a great time playing while laughing our butts off, lol. 

Had a family movie night, complete with popcorn, drinks and other goodies! We watched one of our favorites, Daddy's Home 2, haha. 

Got donuts for breakfast! 

Got to open new Christmas T-shirts! 

Opened our secret santa gifts! Papa got socks from Molly. Anthony got a hat and book from Papa. Timothy got a Robux gift card from Anthony. Molly got some new bracelets from myself. And I (not pictured) got a little DIY coupon book from Timothy. I loved it sooo much! It was so sweet. 

We went out to lunch at Bake My Day! 

We went sledding! 

The kids got to open one gift early! Mainly because Timothy's biggest wish was an air hockey table, and we were able to find a used one for a steal! So of course we had to give it to him early! And then all Anthony wanted was a tv in his room to game on, and I didn't want to wrap it, so he got that early as well. And then I didn't want Molly to feel left out of the early gift opening, so she opened her figit toys she had asked for. Yay, fun! 

Take our family sweater Christmas photo! 

We did other things as well.....like the kids worked the soup kitchen with FFA, we baked cookies so we could make cookie tins to give to friends, we went to a Christmas party, we went to the movies a second time (and saw Spider Man!), we attended Anthony's jazz band concert and Timothy's Christmas recital.....

The month definitely flew by too quickly! I'm not quite ready to see Christmas come and go! 

With love,

Mama Hauck