Pre-Christmas Happenings :)

 

We have had so many fun Christmas activities this month and I haven't even gotten close to puting all the fun things on here... ;)

 

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The Saturday after Thanksgiving, Bryson went to the Dallas Athletic Club with Grandma and Papa for an exciting afternoon!! They made a special gingerbread house!

 

 

 

They mailed a letter to Santa

 

He got to make cookies with the chef! They took all the kids on a tour of the huge kitchen and even went into the walk-in deep freezer. Melony said he kept shivering and telling her it was so cold in there, it was making his apron cold! :)

 

 

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We usually put up Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving, but I just never got to it. I was just flat out exhausted after work everyday. Well into the first week of December, the only thing that was in our house was a bare Christmas tree and a billion full boxes of decorations.

Well, we were at my parent's house one Sunday (who already had all their decorations out) and were talking about Santa and how Bryson gets to ask Santa for something for Christmas. He told us he just needed to "ask Santa for ornaments for our Christmas tree at home." Oh goodness, talk about worst mother of the year!! I felt SO bad!! SO, the very next day, the second we got home from school, you better believe we decorated that little Christmas tree of ours!!

He was so excited to decorate! His areas may or may not have been heavily concentrated with ornaments ;)

 

 

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He made a Christmas wish list at school. We got a kick out of the last one ;)

 

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We were getting ready for our ABF Christmas party and Bryson noticed we had changed out of our work clothes and suddenly excliamed, "oh!! I almost forgot to put on my party clothes!!" he ran out of our bedroom and came back wearing a swim shirt, new underwear and a swimsuit! HAH! Apparently, those are his "party clothes"!! He refused to take off his shirt. I'm learning to pick my battles, folks, and this was not one I was going to fight! Fortunately, we got him to put on khaki pants and I threw a sweater on him, but about 2 mins after we got there, he took it off. So, our lovely son wore a (insideout) swim shirt to a Christmas party. HAHA!

 

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We went to Michael's big work Christmas party and Bryson got to stay home with Aunt Steph and Trey! He loved playing with them! (This was a few days later...what is his obsession his this swim shirt!?)

 

 

We ate entirely way too much and played a lot of Poker! It was fun spending the night away with Michael :)

 

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We had a little Christmas fondue and hot chocolate at Ray and Alicia's house a while back. Bryson ate his weight in marshmellows and chocolate. Surprise surprise!!

 

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Michael's work team had another smaller Christmas party and rented out a room at Dave & Buster's. It was a family party, so Bryson loved loved playing all the games!!

(he's going to think we go to arcade places all the time- Chuck E Cheese, Dave and Busters, and Gatti Town!! ha!)

 

 

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We went on our yearly drive to look at Christmas lights. We went to Deerfield and holy moly, everything was outrageously decorated! It was so fun watching Bryson get so excited about everything.

 

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We made our Christmas pretzels again this year. I have the best little helper, he always has to be right in the action. He was great at rolling the dough, he told me it was just like his blue play-doh :)

 

(he had to have a wardrobe change...he's obsessed with changing clothes!!)