Christmas Bokeh

One of the moms in my LensBaby group invited us to her house yesterday to take pictures that have that beautiful Christmas light bokeh.  She set up some white lights covered with a shimmery white fabric in the background to give our pictures the "snow effect".  I had been wanting to try this so I was so happy when she invited us for the play date.  Here are some of the pictures I took while we were there.



{My favorite little Snowman}





{My favorite Snow Princess}





{Some cuties from our group}
Seems like forever ago that mine would sit and pose for pictures so sweetly.  :-)



Christmas Cookies

Some of our LensBaby friends came over today to make Christmas cookies with us.  There were seven 2-year-olds here cutting out, sprinkling and decorating cookies.  And I have to say they all did so good!  I was so impressed with them.  We have little chefs in the making for sure!  :-)



Waiting for the cookies to come out of the oven...



Making a snowman...
{I think playing with the dough and with the sprinkles were her favorite parts.}

I was a little worried about doing this because of the possible mess.  But I have to say the mess was minimal and we will definitely be doing this again soon.  In fact, we will be doing it again in 17 days (Christmas Eve - let the countdown begin) so we have some cookies for Santa when he arrives.  (And hopefully I'll get some good shots of my Mister in action too.)  

Christmas Feet

This week's I Heart Faces Challenge is "On Your Feet".  Since we've been having so much fun with our Christmas tree and mommy is picture happy around the tree, I caught a few picture of our Christmas "Happy Feet".  :-)

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You can check out other entries on the I Heart Faces website as well.

Listening to Christmas Music

My friend and I got the kids together this past week for a musical Christmas themed play date.  We decided it was a good time to introduce them to all the fun Christmas songs.  We used You Tube to listen to the songs and then we did a fun Christmas activity that went along with each. 



Song:  "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
Activity:  We dressed up like Rudolph with antlers I found at Target and painted our noses red.
(This is Little Miss's favorite because it has Santa in the video.  She calls this one the "Ho Ho Ho" song.)  :-)




Song:  "Jingle Bells"
Activity:  We all had jingle bells to play along with the song.



Song: "Frosty the Snowman"
Activity:  We made snowmen out of marshmallows and pretzel sticks. 
(This was probably the biggest hit of the day.)



Song:  "The Little Drummer Boy"
Activity:  We used wooden spoons and couch pillows to play our drums along with the song.
(Little Man loves this song.  He always wants to watch the "Baby" video since it has Baby Jesus in it.)





Song:  "Oh Christmas Tree"
Activity:  We decorated our Christmas trees.
(I found this idea for felt Christmas trees on Pinterest.  I thought it was so cute and super simple to make.)





Song: "Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow"
Activity:  We used our snowflakes to dance with the music.



Lunch:  We had reindeer quesadillas.
 (Left over turkey instead of reindeer inside though.)  ;-)
We had a ton of fun!! 



Oh and I have to share.  Our friends made us this advent calendar and yummy cookies as well.
(I'm so excited about this calendar!  She is so creative.  Check out all of her Nik's Naks.) 



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Linking up to Tot Time and Wordless Wednesday. 

 

I Heart Faces Challenge WINNER! Yay!! :-)

I am so excited to have had my picture chosen as one of the I Heart Face's winners for the "Bust a Gut" Challenge.  I always love entering their contest each week and seeing all the great pictures that are submitted.  Hehe...and I'm a little giddy about being chosen as one of their finalists. I feel very honored actually.  Thanks Amy & Angie for hosting such a fun contest!!



This picture was chosen for 8th place.  :-)

   

Happy Fall!

I know it's time to say goodbye to Fall and to bring on the crisp, cool fireplace weather (which I love!)  but it was nice to get one last chance to get some Fall pictures in with my LensBaby group this week.  We went to a small Elementary school park in McKinney and took a few pictures of the kids in the leaves.  But mostly the kids played on the play ground there.  I asked them later if they had a good time and they told me "Yeah, yeah!" so I think it it's safe to say we all had a great time.  :-)  Here are a few of our pictures from the play date and Happy Fall! 

More Christmas Fun

Christmas is definitely one of my favorite times of year!!  So I couldn't pass up the chance to go with a friend to take some more pictures of the kids dressed up in their Christmas cuteness.  We took the kids to the Heritage Museum in Frisco and had such a great time!!  Here are some of my favorite pictures from that day.



Of course I enjoyed taking pictures of my babies.  But it was also fun to take pictures of my friend and her little girl.  She was trying to get some pictures for her Christmas cards.  I'm so glad she took some great pictures that day though.  I didn't get to share any of mine with her since my computer was on the blink.  :-(  But it was still a lot of fun!  Isn't her little girl's outfit just too cute??