Fridays, Fundays, Friends, and Parties: what more does any homeschooling family need?

We host the parties for our Friday Funday co-op. I was busy keeping 12 children from 2 - 12 supplied and assisted during the gingerbread house making so I didn't get any pictures until later that evening when I got the house all cleaned up. Imagine it, and relish in the joy and fun that was, while you feast your eyes upon my children's masterpieces. They will feast on them tomorrow night for Christmas eve with Mr. Krueger's Christmas and pizza, one of our favorite traditions. Hopefully they won't be too sugared-out to put on their fabulous nativity presentation. It gets better every year and the best part is, Sam and I get to sit back and watch what they create. Granted, it's about 2-3 minutes long, but oh what a grand 2-3 minutes :) And this year we were smart and stayed up last night until 1:00 a.m. instead of keeping everything until Christmas eve. We are learning, slowly. It was out of necessity this year though, can't claim any stroke of genius. The children get to sleep in front of the tree (last year they chose the fire), with the smaller space we didn't know how we'd pull off our elfness. Hence, last night, and now we are done and get to go to sleep with the little ones and wake up well rested for all the festivities!

Zackary's

Ellie's

Jacob's

Addie's

We kept the McKnight's to play and then return to their parents later that night at the church Christmas party. The Knutsen's had to go because Nate is the Branch President for the spanish branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in this area and Sarah was in charge of the hams for their party, which happened to be on the same night. We wanted them to stay longer but the ham's gotta be done when the hams gotta be done :) Zack and Maxwell thought eating sheets of ice was cool. Pun intended for sure!

Jane, Addie, and Ellie had a real tea party with real tea cups and real saucers. It was so fancy they could hardly stand it :) Chocolate milk for tea and goldfish crackers for cakes, a gourmet feast fit for princesses for sure. Even better, they watched Barbie as The Island Princess, a surprisingly good movie. They just might have been in heaven.

Jake and George had fun too I just don't have a picture of them somehow. They were outside on the trampoline. Yes, you can jump on a trampoline in the winter, after you shovel the snow off.