Gorton Family Christmas Party

Winter Fun for the First Time

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Trevor's 6th Birthday

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Ginger Bread Train

It was time for the annual building of the ginger bread house except this year I think that Trevor convinced Brigitte to get a train instead so this year it was the ginger bread train. It was great because the kit came with all ready made frosting so we did not have to make it. That is always such a pain. I built the train up and then let the kids decorate it.

The kids were having fun decorating the train. They started by handing the candy to me to put them on the train.

But then they started getting into the decorating on their own.

Maya always had to show us the piece of candy before putting it on the train.

I had to add more frosting where they wanted it to give them more places to place the candy.

It got to a point where the candy had to be tested in the mouth before it went on the train.

Trevor was deep in thought as to whether the train was complete or not. He had to make the decision because there was more candy but they wanted to eat it.

The final train decorated. I would usually cover the whole thing in frosting but was not in the mood to do that this year. Besides the kids got to the frosting before I got a chance.

Christmas Tree Time

Well it is that time of year again. Time to decorate the tree. This year we decided to get a real tree. And because we had enough room we wanted to get a big tree. We had heard that there was a self choose, self cut tree lot close by so we thought that we would go try there. It was fun looking at all the trees but they just were not what we were looking for. When we found on that we like from the front we went to the back and it was dead because it had grown so close to the other trees. We decided to go find a Christmas tree lot. We drove for a while and then ended up going to Home Depot. They had just what we wanted, a 9 ft tree that was perfect. Got it home and then decorated it for Family Home Evening.

Alexa and I are putting the ornaments on the tree.

Trevor just had to get this ornament at the top of the tree. He is getting to heavy but I was able to get him high enough.

Alexa was having so much fun. Brigitte got two huge balls and this is the one that Alexa got to put up.

It was time for the kids to go to bed but they insisted that this picture be taken.

The Christmas tree finally finished with tree skirt and all. It is one beautiful tree. Don't you all agree?