Christmas at the Fire Station

Our local fire station does a Christmas event every year and this is the first time we have been able to go. It was awesome!

Sitting in a firetruck

Decorations

They were trying to pretend it is cold.

More fun backdrops to pose with

Parachuting Santa!

Every year our town hosts Santa and an elf as they parachute into the town square. This is the story of 2015 or How Inconsiderate People Ruin Everything. (*Note, this is a dramatic title. It wasn't ruined, but it could have been better.)

Here he comes!

The Elf lands first

You can see the crowds surrounding the landing field. We were held back by ropes and a sense of community - at least in theory.

 The elf lands!

Shortly after this, people rushed the field. I'm not kidding. It was no longer safe for Santa to land here. Santa ended up landing in another field, out of our sight, where he wouldn't hurt anyone. It was a great decision based on the safety of everyone, but needless to say we were less than thrilled that we didn't get to see Santa land.

There he goes

Christmas Crafts

December really does seem to be a month full of crafting! Here are just two of the many projects the kids worked on this month.

Decorating their own foam gingerbread houses

Tiny tree!

This was a really cool project. The tree it self is a wooden dowel with silver pipe cleaners wrapped around it. The tiny ornaments are Shrinky Dinks! In case you don't know what that is. There are outlines of pictures on plastic. You color in the pictures then place them in the oven. They curl up, flatten out, and are now tiny hard plastic ornaments. So much fun!

Wordless Wednesday

He asked for a photo (She photo bombed).