Its Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas

We let the kids decorate a gingerbread house for family home evening and it was really difficult for me not to take over and do it myself. I tend to be a perfectionist with these sort of things and it was hard for me just to let go and let the kids have fun with it. It was worth it though because Mason said "this is my favorite night ever!" after we were done. It was probably because he got to eat so much candy.


Santa happened to be at the Park Meadows Mall last weekend so we took the kids to see him. I predicted that Peyton would freak out and refuse to even look at Santa and Mason would talk his ear off about all the toys he wants. It was the exact opposite. Peyton sat and smiled for pictures. We had to force Mason onto Santa's lap and he refused to look at the camera. As we were leaving he yells back at Santa "I want a mote trol (remote control) Lightning McQueen, and my sister wants a baby doll." This from the kid who gave Santa hugs the first time he met him.