These pictures are totally out of order, but I'm pretty sure you can all deal with it. :)
Mia and Lennon came up with this ice cream pie, so we made it one day for a movie night. It had a chocolate cookie dough crust, a layer of vanilla ice cream, a layer of frosting, another layer of ice cream, then topped off with peppermint bark chips.
Uncle Jeremy came for a nice, long, two week visit and we luckily got plenty of sledding time in
My kids adore their Uncle Jeremy!
Mateus was Fritz in The Nutcracker, so we went with a group of homeschoolers to see the awesome performance
Lennon was at school, so it was a fun little mother/daughter date
Last year we strung cranberries on the tree and loved it, so we did it this year too.
Gaga, Granmommy and Aunt Hillary all came in for various of Mia's performances. When Gaga was in town, we went out to a cute little tea house for brunch one morning while Lennon was at school.
In front of the Wenham Tea House
Chloe and Naomi are two of Mia's best and longest friends, and they both came on the same night to see her as Sophie in Auntie Claus
The cast of Auntie Claus went out to get frozen yogurt after their last show
Mia got an incredible amount of loot from all her doting fans
We had a movie night with Gaga and Lennon insisted on having me build him a "boat" to view the movie in. We took a laundry basket and filled it with cozy blankets. I also put a soft, blue blanket under him as the water. He was in heaven!
Lennon was having a hard time getting along with the older kids at a party we were at, and so he decided to lay down. As you can see, he was pretty tired, as he fell asleep right in the middle of the party.
Making reindeer food for Christmas Eve
We went to Old Sturbridge Village, a living history museum set in the 1860's, for an event they call Christmas by Candlelight. We had wanted to do this for a long time and it was super fun.
This is a silly little video Mia made of herself
One of the projects at Christmas by Candlelight was to make these little Cornucopia tree ornaments
Lennon and Zebree with the reindeer food. Zebree came with us to look at Christmas lights on Christmas Eve. Our tradition is to put out the reindeer food, drive around and look at lights while drinking home made hot chocolate and then come home for some take out Chinese food. This year we did things a little bit differently because Holly had given us an awesome gift card, so we ate out at a Southwest restaurant called Masa.
Mia delicately sprinkling reindeer food
Our favorite, crazily decorated house
The kids and I made gluten free molasses cookies this year for Santa. Lennon didn't ask any questions about why we were making them gluten free, and later that night I got some cookies!
No fire place? No problem!
Lennon has been wanting his own baseball cap for a very long time. He was thrilled to open this one from Gaga
Mia and Rebecca in their brand new matching pajamas, robes and slippers. Thanks, Gaga!
Holly came up around mid morning and we exchanged gifts with her. The kids love their adopted Aunt Holly. She gave Lennon an old, no longer used laptop which he was pretty stoked about.
Christmas breakfast: Super Berry Coffee Cake, bacon, sausage, coffee and orange juice. Perfect!
Lennon has built quite a few towers at this point with his Contraptions kit.
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