Entries Tagged 'holidays' ↓

This year we built our gingerbread houses in December instead of January.
Quite a bit of frosting and candy was eaten, but a lot of it made onto the houses too.

Pie making with Aunt Amy

Pillow art with Grandma Liz

The lighted tree in Downtown Downers. We found some of the ornaments Ezri’s Brownie troop made for the tree though we couldn’t identify hers. We think it’s probably up high. It has a unicorn on it.

Ezri helped a little with preparation of pie and mashed potatoes this year.

We played Apples to Apples Junior, climbed trees, colored pillows, built LEGO ATV racers, read books and both kids ate a piece of all 4 kinds of pie.

There was a delicious feast with squash, turkey, green beans, gravy, stuffing, yams and all the best things. Ivan mostly ate turkey but Ezri likes stuffing and squash and cranberries.

It was nice to have family together and we have a lot for which to be thankful.

Black snakes and smoke bombs

Sparklers

Ezri liked gefilte fish.
Ivan did not.
Ivan loved matzah.
Ezri thought it was okay.

Everyone liked singing with family and the meal.
Passover observed in full – with full hearts and bellies.

Each year in December our local bookshop does a program where you can select a book to give to a child in need. This year both kids were interested in selecting a kid around their own age and picking out books.

I forgot to note here on the blog what the kids selected. December is a busy time.

Ezri got the book Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier for a 4th grade girl.
Ivan got a DK Sticker book about vehicles and I Wanna Be a Great Big Dinosaur for a 4 year old boy who likes trucks and dinosaurs. They did not have the book Dinotrux which clearly would have been the ideal book. We solved it by getting two books.
I got the book Nameless City for a 7th grader who likes adventure and graphic novels.

Dreidel game at the grandparents’ congregation’s annual holiday party. Other highlights included the unique materials menorah competition which featured a light sabre menorah and a frog menorah crafted by Ezri’s Grandma Liz. Singing Hanukkah songs together and feasting on latkes is wonderful every year.