Feliz Navidad!

What a great, relaxing Christmas we had. It was so much fun spending time with Grammy and Papa.

After much anticipation, Joshua, Grammy and Charles finally made a gingerbread house (actually it was a train) Thomas helped for about 5 seconds, so that really doesn't count. Joshua was the only one who hung in until the end. Charles lost interest about half way through.
Here is our masterpiece!











We went to church on Christmas Eve (Grammy and I went an HOUR early this year, so we finally got a spot up front) Then we came home and opened some presents. But first a few pictures in front of the tree.



And finally Christmas morning arrived. It turns out Steve was up half the night putting together a bench that mom and dad had bought for me which was a surprise(what a great guy!) so he was exhausted. But other than that, nobody was sick and we all had a lot of fun. There are too many pictures to show, so here are a few favorites.

More Christmas fun

We have been busy this past week with lots of Christmas activities. First was Charles' Christmas program at preschool. He did great. He sang, and did the motions and hung in there in, even when the girls behind him starting losing it.

Here he is at the beginning:

And doing the Jesus Loves me song..."they are weak but he is STRONG"

Still smiling, til the end!


Next we all went to see Santa. Yes, Santa!! Thomas told everyone that the shorter the list the better because Santa wouldn't think you were being greedy. Then he proceeded to ask for twice as many things as the other two! The cutest part about it all was that Thomas took a shower and put on his Christmas sweatshirt that he made last year in Kindergarten before going to see Santa. That was all his idea.

Some of the things they want: a new bike (Josh) DS games, WII games, a ripstick, geotracks...whew!


And yesterday was the annual Flower Mound Christmas parade. It is a really fun parade, and we go see it every year if we can. This year the cub scouts got to participate if they wanted to. Thomas was very excited to be in the float. Joshua chose to watch from the sidelines since he was already in the Homecoming parade earlier this year for student council. (He really just didn't want to miss out on all the candy.)

Thomas took this very seriously. He sat and waved the ENTIRE time, and yelled Merry Christmas. By the end, most of the others were just goofing off. Not Thomas. He was so cute. When it was over he asked me "how did I do?" This was a big deal to him. He will be a great employee some day.

Here he is before we took off. The float had a fake fire and the boys pretended to roast marshmallows.

And here is the whole gang that participated. Thomas is front and center.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

The Kall boys are giddy with excitement as soon as the first Santa appears on a lawn anywhere within a 20 mile radius. So, we have been decorating and singing and talking a lot about Christmas. And it's only December 3rd! It's so much fun though.

Check out Charles in his new gingerbread apron. He is patiently waiting for Grammy to arrive from Florida so they can make a gingerbread house together.

And here are Thomas and Charles showing off their new nutcrackers. This has become a tradition of ours. The boys get a new one each December 1st. This year Joshua got a Mexican nutcracker, Thomas got a cowboy and Charles got a pirate. They just love these things. They play with them like barbies. Now if I can just convince them that they don't really crack nuts!




We decorated the tree last night too! The boys couldn't wait another second to put up the ornaments.