Adventures of the Loveless Family

Molly's preschool class put on a Christmas program. The kids all lined up on a little stage and sang us some of the songs they've learned this year. We were all very proud of how well Molly did.



Waiting for the show to start...she looks nervous!

She was happy when the bells were passed out - not really singing anymore, but happy :)

Molly with the other girls from her class - Emma, Isabella, Molly, Haley and Kylee. She loves going to school and she loves her friends. I can't count the number of times she hugged them all before we left!

For the first time in the past few years, we got a big snowfall yesterday. The girls were so excited that they didn't even wait for it to stop snowing to go out to play in it. When all was said and done, we had 7-8 inches, I think. Let's hope it sticks around till Christmas!



Attempting to make snowballs...it didn't pack together very well.

They were working together to do something...but who knows what! That's our neighbor Andy in the background. He's a little older than Megan and they really enjoy playing together.

When we started to talk about going to get a Christmas tree this year, Megan started to balk. She said she didn't want to go cut down a tree. She wanted to use a fake tree so that we wouldn't have to cut one down. So, even though I really wanted a real tree, we agreed to get a fake one. We had one we had used last Christmas, but I didn't like how small it was. A very generous co-worker offered to loan us a 9 8-foot tree she had that was too big for their apartment. We have 9 8-foot ceilings, so of course we said "Sure!" *Thanks for straightening me out on my facts, Scott!*

The girls were impressed to watch it get put together, with all the different color coded branches. And "fluffing" them was an event all on its own. Once it was up, we started in on the decorations since it is pre-lit :)



Here's Megan stretching to get a candy cane up high.

The girls and I made clothespin reindeer ornaments this year. They thought it was the coolest thing ever.

The finished tree. Yes, the star touches the ceiling. And please don't mind the bottom unlit section. We wiggled and jiggled the plug with no luck - that section would not light up! At least it's at the bottom and not in the middle!

Megan's school put on a Christmas Event called Winterland of Gingerbread. Each child was invited to decorate and bring a gingerbread house to the event which had several holiday themed activities. So I bought a kit and a few days before the event, Megan, Molly and I built and decorated the house.


Both girls were very concerned about the construction. They were convinced that the icing would not hold the house up. For a while, I was concerned, too...but eventually, we got it built!

We decorated both sides of the roof with the same pattern of icing dots. Then each girl decorated one side.

Here is the finished house. We did add some little plastic trees the next day. We glued sparkly pom-poms on the top of them...they added a nice festive touch. We really had a lot of fun decorating the house and I would like to try to make this an annual tradition.