Family Time

I underestimated just how boring it was going to be for the kids to make their own Christmas ornaments. Last week (maybe the week before) Hobby Lobby was having a 40% off sale on their Christmas crafts. The Martha Stewart in me decided that getting the family to sit around the table and make some of our own ornaments would be a fabulous idea. Not so much. I picked up a kit that came with styrofoam balls of various sizes, pins, beads, and three colors of sequins! Wow! All that for less than $10!! Oh.My.God. Every tiny little pin had to be put through a single tiny little bead that then had to be put through a single sequin. Sounds fun, right???

Here are the boys...

while Kaia was...

not to poke herself with the pins....

After what seemed like hours and hours, I finally had...

At least, there was one finished project... Neil didn't finish his (I did)...Kaia was done in another few days...and Chris was done with his first one after I had finished my second one...

That night we finally lit...