12 Days Till Christmas - Team Lopez Style (Day 9)

We've got four days till Christmas,

so you all get to see...

Nine sugar cookies,

Tomorrow is for decorating!

Eight things on our to do list,

1. Buy a few more presents (Yay for presents!)
2. Wrap presents 
3. Go see Santa
4. See the Christmas lights on Christmas Eve
5. Find the elf each morning...and say goodbye on Christmas Eve.
6. Crafting, crafting, and more crafting
7. Take a gift to the Toys for Tots donation bins. 
8. Be Merry

Seven words about Christmas,

      Me: Jack, what is your favorite thing about Christmas?

      Jack: Merry Christmas! I like Christmas! Very much.

Six holiday kid crafts,

Shawn: the stocking and Santa
Jason: the ornament and snowflake
Jack: the tree and star

Five sto-ock-ings,

Four gingerbread houses,

Took some doing, but they were finally able to clean up their neighborhood.

Three handsome boys,

How cute are these boys?

Two cozy parents,

Cookies and hot chocolate--Yum!

and another year of fun with Elfie!

Elfie's prize wheel!

12 Days Till Christmas - Team Lopez Style (Day 8)

We've got five days till Christmas,

so you all get to see...

Eight things on our to do list,

1. Buy a few more presents (Yay for presents!)
2. Wrap presents 
3. Go see Santa
4. See the Christmas lights on Christmas Eve
5. Find the elf each morning...and say goodbye on Christmas Eve.
6. Crafting, crafting, and more crafting
7. Take a gift to the Toys for Tots donation bins. 
8. Be Merry

Seven words about Christmas,

      Me: Jason, what is your favorite thing about Christmas?

      Jason: I like spending time with my family.

Six holiday kid crafts,

More ornaments for our tree!

Five sto-ock-ings,

Won't be long before we get to see these guys filled!

Four gingerbread houses,

Our version of a ginger Radiator Springs.

Three handsome boys,

Jack was taken by this tree.
I love this picture of them!

The big boys got to go to a classmate's birthday party today.
Shawn ROCKED this arcade game and won 336 tickets!

Jay played the game, too, and won a jackpot of 25 tickets.
This was part of his jackpot celebration. :)

Two partying parents,

Woo to the double whooooo!
Partying hard at Chuck E Cheese! ;)

and another year of fun with Elfie!

Elfie wanted to show the boys that he liked the Nutcracker, too,
the night before the big boys went on a field trip to go see it.

12 Days Till Christmas - Team Lopez Style (Day 7)

We've got six days till Christmas,

so you all get to see...

Seven words about Christmas,

      Me: Shawn, what is your favorite thing about Christmas?

      Shawn: My favorite thing about Christmas is Santa!

Six holiday kid crafts,

Top row: Jack's snowman ornament and picture of him, Santa, and a tree.
Top row (cont,): Shawn made the present ornament and the tree ornament.
Bottom row: Jason drew the tree in the snow storm and made the wreath ornament.

Five sto-ock-ings,

Four gingerbread houses,

There seems to be an invasion in our ginger town.
Run, ginger people, run!

Three handsome boys,

We played in the rain today.
Jason was more of a mud man. What you
can't see here are his very, very, VERY dirty hands. :)

Shawn had fun catching raindrops on his tongue.
He laughed and laughed!

How sweet and innocent is this face?
He did, however, break the umbrella. lol

Two goofy parents,

Sleep deprivation makes a person a little loopy.

and another year of fun with Elfie!

Elfie climbs mountains to get back to Santa.

12 Days Till Christmas - Team Lopez Style (Day 6)

We've got seven days till Christmas,

so you all get to see...

Six holiday kid crafts,

The boys each did a tree, but the bottom row was all done by Jack!

Five sto-ock-ings,

Jack couldn't resist. ;)

Four gingerbread houses,

Lots of action in our ginger town tonight.

Three handsome boys,

Two happy parents,

We're on vacation, people!

Elfie took a break and went fishing.
He wants to be on vacay, too!

and another year of fun with Elfie!

 

12 Days Till Christmas - Team Lopez Style (Day 5)

We've got eight days till Christmas,

so you all get to see...

Five sto-ock-ings,

This makes me so happy!

Four gingerbread houses,

Jack made himself a Sweet Shop, while our
group house is the family Chalet. 

Shawn's Santa House and Jason's Bank. I say that pretty much
defines their personalities right there. lol

Three handsome boys,

Shawn looks so sweet here!

Jason is begrudgingly smiling for me. The mamarazzi is
such a bother, you know.

Two seconds before this picture, Jack's life
was falling apart. Then, voila! All is well in the world
when mom eats your foot. ;)

Two snacking parents,

Yummy cookies made by grandma are an excellent
nighttime snack, if we do say so ourselves...

and another year of fun with Elfie!

Elfie and Sugarplum relaxed a little while
they bowled at the Candy Cane Lanes.

 

12 Days Till Christmas - Team Lopez Style (Day 4)

We've got nine days till Christmas,

so you all get to see...

Four gingerbread houses,

The boys each did their own houses. We all contributed to the fourth. 

Three handsome boys,

Jack checking himself out in the mirror after his hair cut. I think
he likes what he sees. lol!

The boys singing "Jingle Bell Rock" at their Christmas program yesterday!

Two tired parents,

All this merry making is exhausting!

and another year of fun with Elfie!

Elfie made the boys some cookies.