This was a busy weekend for us but tons of fun! Saturday morning we had a primary activity where the kids made gingerbread houses! It was a blast and I just had to show off some of their houses. I was seriously impressed with how well they turned out! My friend in the presidency actually BAKED all the gingerbread from scratch and cut out all the pieces for 50 HOUSES!!!! Plus she made all the icing! (She's Martha Stewarts Protege and one day I want to be just like her!) 
That evening we attended our local festival of lights, which is basically our Christmas Parade! In these pictures we are completely bundled up... in fact you would think that we are in -20 degree weather (Celsius). Well, let me tell you... it FELT like -20!!! I could not stop complaining about how freezing it was, even with my hot chocolate. Well, we were surprised when we got home to discover that it was actually +5 out. (???????) I swear it was colder than that! So I guess we are true Californians now. Wussies to the core.
We were all wearing mitts too, and Sophie has like 4 layers on, including tights under her jeans! (Seriously..... +5?????)
One of our favorite parts of the parade was the Star Wars Float with Christmas decorated Storm Troopers. Now what more could bring out the Holiday Spirit?
One of my favorites were the flame baton twirlers! Soooo cool, but very hard to photograph. This was the first parade that we've seen that had a huge line up of cars that did cool stuff. (Okay I am a girl and I'm not even going to try to spell hydrolics. Okay I tried). But anyways, what I'm trying to say is the cars went on two wheels and bounced up an down and stuff. Hopefully that didn't sound too pathetically girly.
Anyways, it was loads of fun... besides being freezing... and totally got us in the Christmas spirit... even with the Storm Troopers! We'll leave you with this video of Sophie singing her new song! Have a great week everyone!
4 comments:
How stinkin Cute! She'll have to teach Jonas popcorn popping and we'll teach her the reverent song that we sing. Can't wait to get there, you did get my message right?
Cute picture Jess! And I forgot to answer your earlier question, but I got my card table at Walmart, they were on "roll-back" for 44 for a table and 4 chairs, not super good quality, but it works dandy for the playhouse. And I just saw that Target has the tables on sale for $28 this week.
It's so cool to see you training your parents Sophie, to sing. Now if you could teach them to sing in tune...Glad to see that you're in the Christmas mood. 'Can't wait to head south to warmer Lethbridge to see Manda/Carson & Ben. Hopefully the roads will be driveable. Keep those Blogs a comin' & hope we'll see you soon.
Love Grandpa Rob
Sophie is so cute...and you're a great singer too Jess!
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