Day of Crafting Fun

For those of you who don't know me, Martha Stewart has more craft sense in her pinky toe nail than I would ever hope to posses in my life so today has been quite a stretch for me as a mom. We started off our "day of crafting fun" with making ornaments with pinecones and lots of glitter. What a mess that turned out to be; and mainly because when I tried to take the cap off of the green glitter I spilt it everywhere!!!! Then Shelby grabs the purple glitter and ever so gently twists off the cap and hands it to me. Not a single piece of glitter came out......go figure!! Anyway, Shelby had a great time painting on the glue and then sprinkling glitter on the pinecones. Pratt also joined in the fun and made one for himself. I just supervised.

Once Shelby got bored with that we went out on the back porch to put ribbon on our Clemson Tree. Shelby supervised as I cut and tied the Orange and Purple ribbon on the tree. I don't have a picture of the tree just yet so I will show that on a later post.


Around 12:00 my dad came out and we loaded up the kids for Hampton Lake. We enjoyed a wonderful lunch there. JP loved just looking around at all the neat memorabilia they have hanging up and we even got to hear a stuffed moose sing a Christmas carol....I know, who would have thought. After lunch, Grandpa took on the task of keeping JP entertained while Shelby and I decorated a ginger bread house. It was great fun....no, I didn't eat all the icing and candy, but I can tell you some one who did enjoy a couple of gum drops....Shelby. Yeah, it is a Christmas miracle that she ate them, but she told me, "Those are my favorite."



Santa came by for a little visit; and as interested as Shelby has been in him, she wanted nothing to do with him. In fact, she didn't even want to be in the same building; so grandpa came to the rescue and took her outside while I took JP to get his first picture with Santa. Isn't he so cute??? He was a little unsure of this big man with a hairy face, but he didn't let his lower lip hang out too long. I think that he is even halfway smiling in this picture.