Merry Christmas

We hope you are all enjoying your Christmas with family and friends.

Jokesters

Evidently our neighbors don't think our house is decorated enough for Christmas, so they took it upon themselves tonight to augment our yard with light-up plastic lawn ornaments.

Game on, Clawsons.  We'll see who has the last laugh now.

Field Trip

On Thursday, Kari's class got to take a field trip over to the Union to see the Christmas tree and gingerbread house.  Because of liability, field trips at their school are few and far between, so this was quite a special occasion.  I took the day off to help chaperone the event.  We took a City Bus over, and according to the majority of the field trip attendees, this was the best part of the day!  The college students who normally ride the Gold Loop, I'm sure, were not so sure about our overwhelming presence.  I know I saw at least one student double-check he was on the right bus as soon as he caught sight of the 20 pre-schoolers bouncing off the seats.

 

Tis the season...

With the weather being unusually warm and hardly any snow having fallen on the ground in central Indiana (as I type it continues to rain and is in the upper 40's), it's not been quite as easy to tell Christmas is around the corner. (Snow pic)

This was our only snow on Nov. 29

So we've done what we can - when we can - to get the kiddos in the Spirit. It started with a quick trek around town to look at Christmas lights. No one was able to out-do Uncle Herby's spread, though. Our good friend Ryan Harber has a Clark Griswald-esque display at his West Lafayette abode.

We then ventured off to pick out a Christmas tree from a nearby farm. After Kari found several that were beautiful, we reminded her that if she wanted to attend a nice college it might be more prudent to stick to the $30 ones :)

Once home, Kari and Bryce helped Mommy set up decorations, lights and stockings. With the house all set, I took the kids to Purdue this past Saturday morning to see Santa and some elves. The Union has an annual meet Santa and eat pancakes type of day, so we stood in line and then downed a few hotcakes.

This should tell you how big the gingerbread house really was! I think Bryce ate the doorbell...

Both kids stared at Santa but didn't want to sit on his lap. Instead, they ventured in and out of large gingerbread houses and stood next to the 40-foot tall Christmas tree.

Happy Holidays everybody!

This weekend the kids will get to spend time in Indy with Gran and Beep Beep, while Kevin has his office Holiday party. Christmas day will be spent in West Lafayette, then a few days of work before bringing in the new year in Chicago with family.

We hope you're all having a wonderful Holiday season!

Christmas in the Union

Ahhh! The annual gingerbread house is well under construction!