A great weekend filled with Christmas activities .

I had a great weekend filled with Christmas activities. Kelly came over on Friday to spend the weekend. Friday afternoon we went and had dinner with my Mom. After dinner we left the kids with her and we went and finished Kelly's shopping for the kids. It was very surprising how many people were out shopping and the amount of things they were purchasing. You would never know that the economy is as bad as everyone is talking about. Then Saturday morning Thomas and I made our famous hot chocolate for Kelly and Noelle. After breakfast Kelly and Thomas worked on the countdown to Christmas chain.

Then he and I worked on a foam Gingerbread house. It didn't work out so great. It came with the wrong pieces so we had to make some changes but it was still fun to work on. My Dad came at 11:00 to help decorate the Christmas tree. That was a lot of fun. Thomas is at a fun stage. He is enjoying singing Christmas songs, making Christmas crafts, and he has even enjoyed buying his friends gifts. He even wrote his first letter to Santa and signed his name himself. So the Christmas tree decorating was a lot of fun. Noelle helped but mainly by taking the ornaments of the tree and giving them back and playing with the hooks. Everyone had fun with what they were doing except.....

Indy wasn't so excited about joining in.

These (and the ones up top) are some of my favorite ornaments

After the kids naps we went and did some shopping at the mall. Thomas had been talking about his friend Kelsey and wanting to get her a gift so we took him to the store and picked out a couple of things and let him help pick what we bought. Then we let them ride the little motorcycle.

That evening Kelly and my Dad took the kids out to dinner and then to go see Christmas lights in Manteca and to see Santa while I went out with some friends.

Sunday morning we woke up and made a nice breakfast and then headed to my Mom's for Christmas pictures. Then we headed back to my Dad's for a nice relaxing afternoon and one of his fantastic Sunday dinners.

It was a great weekend filled with family, laughs and Christmas memories.