The Gingerbread Disaster

The weather was freezing, so we skipped the Keller Tree Lighting and decided to stay home and make a gingerbread house. We had a kit and it seemed easy enough.

My Junior Baker was dressed and ready to go.

Our architect team was ready to go.

The only problem was that 5 of the 7 pieces were broken. The directions said simply glue them together with icing and everything will be ship shape. Wrong!

We tried to repair it with little hope.

Kaden and I moved on to decorating the ornaments that were also included.

The repair team continued!

Tah-DAH! The tree is complete!

It was also kind of tasty, but also a bit hard!

When did he get so big.

We decided it couldn't be saved.

I was very sad. After the two broken roof tiles wouldn't stay on, Becky attempted to make a Ritz roof. Also no good!

A side view. Meg decided to make stained glass, looks more like the windows are bleeding!

My side! There is the tree Kaden and I made. Turns out it was a bit heavy and was blamed for the walls collapsing.

Still having fun!

It is quite beautiful really and open to the starry sky.

Ritz nose!

A side view.

Doesn't our look just like the box?

We decided to turn the broken roof into a driveway. Fittingly we put a fire truck in the driveway!

Kaden carefully placed peppermints on each corner.

A view from above!

The building crew in a timed shot. We are thinking about giving up our day jobs to enter some contests.
Kaden was over it by now!

Our house is hideous but we had fun and made a nice big mess!

Premier Christmas Program

Last week Kaden has his very first Christmas program. The 3 year olds got to sing 3 songs. His class was featured in Frosty the Snowman!

His class was dressed as snowmen. He was quite excited about it as you can see.

Ain't he a stinker!

This was the last time he has the whole outfit on.

After singing Frosty at the top of his lungs for weeks, he froze up on stage!
Oh well there is always next year!

Baby Punkin at 12 weeks!

We had our first sonogram on Wednesday! This was a prescreening for Down Syndrome. We will receive the results soon. We are confident this lil Punkin is healthy but wanted to make sure!

It was fun to see Punkin kicking around. This one is very active! When I start feeling it, I am in for some fun! It even had it's hands up by it's face like Kaden always used to do!

By the way, Punkin is the name Kaden has given the baby. Actually it is Punkin Punkin Jackson Rhodes. he is pretty determined it's a boy. Hopefully we will find out soon!

Christmas Tree Lighting in Southlake!

The Santa Breakfast was a bit disappointing but the tree lighting was awesome!

We drove around for about 20 minutes to park but still arrived right in time for the tree lighting!

They had all kinds of free stations!

Kaden loved the cookie decorating one. I think we had more icing and sprinkles than cookie!

yummy!

Allison "helped" him make a hand reindeer.

Good job Allison

I was nervous about the ornament painting...but no need....

Notice the perfect stripes he painted on his candy cane!

Kaden's entourage!

Becky and Issy!

ahhhhh sisters!

Writing a letter to Santa! Kaden added in a husband for Allison, so thoughtful!

Ready to mail!

Reaching high!

Love my big guy!

Thanks for coming everyone!

We had a lot of fun!

Breakfast with Santa

For the past 2 years I have wanted to take Kaden to a breakfast with Santa. This year he hasn't been totally terrified of him so we headed out for some breakfast and fun!

We checked out Santa's sleigh on the way in. No gifts for us on it but I am sure the elves are working hard on them!

Issy and Kaden enjoying the tree

Breakfast was 3 cold muffins and our choice of juice or milk. Not the hot breakfast I was imaging. Kaden did enjoy the giant sucker though!

yummy muffin!

The man of the hour!

Rudolph! I guess he is finally getting over his costumed people fear!

I had a better pic of him and Frosty ready to take but some lady walked right in front..I instead got her hiney!

Kaden enjoying some sweet SWAG!

Raising his hand to participate in the hula hoop contest, after 3 minutes he changed his mind.

Trying out the BMW!

On the way in they had a red carpet laid out. Kaden loved the nutcracker so we went back to take a picture of him.

While waiting for our turn for Santa Kaden's name was called for a door prize.He chose this annoying flashing wand. There were movies, but he insisted on this. Gun times.

A nice self portrait!

After waiting 2 hours for our turn we found out that no one was actually checking the scrap of paper that gave you your group. Needless to say this is the best picture we could get.

He did tell him what he wanted. A Mickey train, a watch and binoculars!

All in all it was fun but we won't be rushing back next year!