Santa's Lap and Christmas Party with friends

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If you ever have to relocate to the state of Michigan, try to get as close to Chelsea as you can!  It is by far a great town to live in.  We love it here.  Just a small town feel with a great sense of community!  There is always something to offer here for families with kids!  At Christmastime they host a Hometown Holidays festival full of fun activities.  We were out of town last year so we are so excited to take part in it this year!  It started with cookie decorating at the Teddy Bear Factory.  The boys loved licking all the frosting and pouring lots and lots of sprinkles. 


Next we walked over to the train station depot to do all the Christmas crafts for kids.  They created pinecone ornaments, coasters, marshmallow snowmen, and reindeer food.  The boys were loving it but it was jammed packed to the crizzzack and I was sweating!


Needless to say these marshmallow snowman didn't even make it home!

The next morning we headed to see Santa at Rainbow Childcare.  This is a great fundraiser.  They ask for a $5 donation but you get the image emailed to you and you can duplicate it however you'd like. I was a little worried because last year Landon was very scared of Santa and cried the whole time.  Carter was so pumped to tell Santa what he wanted.  He said I would like a remote control car with shooters on the side.  Santa replys, "Well I will be sure that my elves put that in the sleigh for you." Yeah, I want to kick Santa for agreeing to that for sure.  Landon was giving Santa the crazy over the shoulder look when we first entered the room but once he saw Carter sitting up there he jumped right on.

This year our friends, The Lokers, hosted a Christmas Party at their home.  There were very brave.  There were seven families with a total of 11 children.  It was so crazy  but we had such a blast the whole time.  We all walked down to see the Christmas parade come through town, unwrapped presents, and ate.  Our boys had a blast!

Before opening presents the kids all got on their pjs.

Carter quickly opens his presents

Landon is stoked about his remote control car!

Kids relax while watching a Christmas movie

It was a great start to a wonderful holiday season.




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