Nana's Christmas Presents

December 22nd.
This year we decided to open up Lydia's gifts a couple days before Christmas. A couple reasons were: to give the kids something to do. They were bored and because Jake and I were still quarantining they didn't get to participate in a whole lot of Christmas activities this year. And this also simplified things on Christmas Day. Which shouldn't have mattered since we weren't going to Grandma Harvey's for Christmas-but still... Here we are: The kids got a bunch of slime sand for Christmas (which they love-by the time I am posting this). William also got cars and a roadmap puzzle mat, Sydney got clay, and Lizzy got a tool set and a book. Jake and I got a home video projector.

 

Frosting Fun

 Friday, December 18th
I was making a Christmas cake for my family's Christmas party the next day. And so I had the kids take some of the frosting and make trees for me to decorate with on the cake. They had a lot of fun putting the sprinkles on.

 So the kids were making the trees for my cake that i was making for the Christmas party. After the kids went to bed, we put the frosting decorations in the freezer. We have learned from past creations that homemade buttercream frosting melts super easy. The cakes were sitting out to cool and one of our cats (were guessing Rocket) ate the cake. So I had to remake the yellow cake at like 11 pm. The photos of the cake fully decorated are from the next day after we put the cake together. My husband is literally the best. He helped make the decor. Helped me remake the cake. Helped me put the whole thing together. Gave me encouragement. I really do love him and am grateful for his support.

And while I make the bread, it wouldn't taste nearly as good without Jakes drizzle. I've had people tell me that. So here we are making bread for the neighbors.

Remaking the cake.