Christmas Activities

I Love the Holidays!

Lights of Tanea

If you live in the Reno/Sparks area you know what a cool place this is to see.

It's one home that really knows how to decorate for the Holidays.

The lights are set to the music of TSO.

MJ ready and waiting to go!

I always try to get at least one family picture.

Summit Tree Lighting!

There are a couple of tree lighting's in Sparks/Reno. This one is my favorite.

Smile say cheese!

Thank Goodness Mark has long arms:)

Of course MJ and his fairy wand fascination.

My 2 favorite men.

I am very lucky that I found such a great man!

MJ was so excited to see Santa. I wasn't quick enough on the clicker to get the pic of Santa shaking MJ's hand.

Tree Lighting



Christmas Is Upon Us

Christmas Crafts w/MJ

Another Christmas tradition in our home is MJ and I make a few handmade ornaments for our tree. This year we decided to make dough ornaments. Super easy and MJ loves playing with dough.

All you need is salt, flour and water.

1c Salt

1c Flour

1/2c Water (more or less)

Kneed and roll out dough.

Then using cookie cutters (hand for Santa Ornament) cut out your shapes

bake @ 200 for 3 hrs

Paint, seal and ready to hang

I rolled this our to about 1/4 inch thickness

Using a cookie cutter, cut out desired shape. I used a wooded skewer to make the hole to loop the ribbon.

After cutting our shapes, line a baking sheet with parchment paper and bake @ 200 for about 3 hrs

Once the dough is completely cooled, we are ready for paint.

This was MJ favorite part. Why is the messiest task always the funnest for my little Monkey?

MJ finished painting all his ornaments.

I added all the detailed work.

Lots of fun and they make great gifts!

Just make sure your mark them fragile and use lots of bubble wrap when you mail em :)