Dry Gulch Christmas Train

"You’ll get to hear the true story of Christmas like you’ve never heard it before as you take the 10-minute journey around the Dry Gulch property on our authentic, narrow-gauge steam locomotive. It may be the main event, but The Christmas Train is so much more than just a train ride! Take a stroll down main street and stop in at one of our specialty Christmas shops, or head over to Grand River Theater and enjoy a holiday puppet show! You and your family can head to the park area and take a ride on our carousel, bumper cars, or go-karts, and then finish the evening off right with a delicious cinnamon roll from our bakery. There’s lots to see and do."

We finally were able to get tickets for a night on the Christmas Train. We were told that they sold 50,000 tickets in just under 8 hours. The kids loved this place, the adults loved it too. The little ones loved the pony rides and the carousal. The big kids loved the ropes course and stagecoach rides. Everyone loved the train ride. I will be up at midnight again next year trying for tickets.

Pajama Party

A few weeks before Christmas we decided to put on a pajama pizza party and decorate gingerbread houses. I think the best part of the party was finding the perfect pajamas. Landen found several awesome onesie pajamas but I wasn't willing to pay their price. The girls got their Christmas pajamas back in October so I really wanted to work around Santa and the elves. Two days before the party, Landen found some matching adult pajamas for us. 

Decorating houses was fun. The kids had a better time eating as much candy as they could get away with. We used the finished houses for the dining room table decorations. Our little girls would be caught red-handed multiple times sitting on the table picking candy off the houses. 

Children's Museum

Incredible Fun

December In a Nutshell

Mylea being silly while being photo bombed by Daddy.

Chance officially became a Holmes. His adoption finally was complete.

Landry loves wearing Daddy's hat.

Landry and Maribette shopping together.

Maribette ' s favorite place to be is sitting by the Hallmark tree.

Caught red-handed sampling some snacks.

We found Landry 's nickname on a shirt.

Group snack time

                  Our elves, Pilot and Snowflake,
                            Came back for a visit.

 All three girls sleeping together.

Lots of playing going on.

We met up with some of Landen ' s family for lunch. My and Brayson were glad to see each other.

Yes  that is a train stuck in Landry ' s hair.

 Chuck E Cheese with Daddy.

Maribette hanging out with Sophia.

Clearing before the NYC ball drops.

Ran in to Brayson at CEC.

Sweet little ones.

Big Hero wasn't available at Disney so we found a photo spot at the movies.

Annie......best movie ever!!!! Love Landen's pose.

The girls demonstrating the it frozen powers before church. 

Believers Christmas Creations

Way back before life got busy I had good intentions of keeping this blog up to date. I have recently been reminded that nothing has been updated since our trip to see Mickey. So here goes.....

Our homeschool group, Believers, put on a Christmas Creations party for the elementary and preschool kids. There were around 80 kids participating.  I took Mylea and Landry and left the other two with mom.

Our first Christmas Creations stop was making oreos balls. The kids did everything.....smashing oreos,  mashing in cream cheese with their fingers, and dipping the ball in the chocolate.  Landry was not happy when she was told to smash the cookies. She just cried as she smashed. All she was interested in was eating the cookie. Mylea enjoyed this station and keeps asking to make more at home.

Next we headed to the craft station. Mylea went with the older kids while Landry befriended a junior high girl in the preschool craft room. Each girl made several ornaments for their Christmas trees.

Our last station was the best. One family in the group baked 400 sugar cookies for the kids to decorate. The girls had baker bags of icing, bowls of icing, candy and sprinkles to choose from. Mylea had fun using the baker bags while Landry wanted her entire plate covered in sprinkles.

It was a fun day with the big girls.  We are so thankful for our homeschool group and all the wonderful acticites they plan every month.

M-I-C-KEY MOUSE