Making cookies: Kieran helped Mommy make peanut clusters. (Super easy recipe for the clusters on my Mom Thoughts blog.) Kieran & Marisa helped me make over 60 sugar cookies. Once they were frosted, we had fun delivering them to the neighbors.
Family is here visiting...more pictures to be posted after Christmas on this topic. Below: the kids made a train out of their chairs and Mommy & Grandpa volunteered to ride the train. We also had our last post placement visit for Marisa on this same day. Now, both of our kids are done with post placement visits!
One of our advent activities this past week was to make a snowman. We didn't have any snow, so Mike and I took the kids on a day trip to the mountains. It was Marisa's first time to play in the snow! We did a bit of sledding, made a snowman, wandered around in the powdery snow, and had fun throwing snow up into the air and pretending that it was snowing on us. After our adventures, we drove to the nearest Starbucks and the kids each got a hot chocolate. (I actually only gave them each half a cup and added a some water to cool it off.) They managed to drink most of it and the rest was accidentally poured all over their shirts and coats. :) A great time was had by all!
