Little Barretts: December 2008

We made Gingerbread Houses a week ago. They were kits that came with everything. The Gingerbread already formed and cooked, the candy, the frosting and even the stand to put them on. It was fun.

Eric concentrating.

Jimmy's Gingerbread Santa.

Helping Grandma with her house.

This Finished products.

This is Eric's and Jimmy's.

This is the one Grandma, Jimmy and I worked on. Grandma had to leave in the middle to go help take care of Grandpa Clark. He was having another nauseous spell.

This is Cindy's. She got a little frosting happy!!

This is from our Ward Christmas Breakfast. We of course had a nativity program with music and shepards and wise men and Mary and Joseph and ....... Jimmy the sheep. You can see him lying on the ground looking at baby Jesus. The other little boy who was a sheep somehow only ended up with his ears on.

Then he decided to crawl around.

Now he is just chilling.

He made a great sheep!!!

We actually get a picture of me. Jimmy did pretty good with his pictures. I am moving furniture around to decorate for Christmas.

Mom is helping me move furniture and yes we are doing this on a Sunday. Eric and I had already put the tree up, but there wasn't very much room to walk between it and the couch, so my interior decorator (Mom) helped me figure out what to do with the couches.

This is the tree. It is a pre-lit with 400 white lights, plus I made Eric cram 700 colored lights on it. We call it the beacon. It looks fantastic from outside. We put the tree up on a Friday and we didn't get around to putting the decorations on it until Monday. All it had was lights on it. We were going to decorate it Saturday, but we were sidetracked by Kristin. It just wouldn't be a Thanksgiving weekend if Eric didn't have to go over and put Christmas lights up on Kristin's house. Kurt had actually done some, but of course he didn't finish. Their new house roof line is much friendlier than their old one and Eric didn't feel like he was going to fall off of the roof while he was putting the lights on. He did get scared when he went to get off of the roof though. There was quite a distance between his feet and the ladder. Kaitlyn had to guide his feet onto the ladder. I have never seen him scared of anything before, but he was scared. He is not afraid of heights and shimmying right to the end of the roof, but something about dangling his feet off of the edge was scary. He survived though. We also helped Kristin put her Christmas tree up and her tree looks very beautiful. I don't have pictures, but maybe she could post some on her blog.

This is what happens when we let Grandma loose with Christmas lights.

These pictures I took, not Jimmy. I am so thankful for my beautiful Front room (Celestial room or the Useless room) to put my Christmas decorations in. One of my obsessions in house hunting was having a front room window that you could see a Christmas tree in.