... here are some piccies of some of the Christmas festivities in the Davies household! Timmy was one of 3 year 1 children chosen to have a 'going on the stage' part in the school Christmas play 'A Tale of Two birthdays'. He did a fabulous job of being radiant & angelic!
Luke was in the party guest crowd & did a marvelous job being enthusiastic, singing loudly (when he knew the words well) & looking like he was joining in with the songs with great gusto when he didn't have a clue what the words were! 10 out of 10 for miming skills! :o)
After much deliberation & difficulty we decided to buy an artificial Christmas tree this year. The kids had a lot of fun decorating it. Annie-Joy put all the gift box decorations in one corner of the tree! Every day someone would secretly move the decorations around so it never looked the same on any two days. It was jolly cheerful!
My favourite Christmas decoration is the lovely wooden nativity scene that my mum bought us last year. It is very popular with the children too- especially Baby Jesus.
The sheep didn't come with the scene originally but were a gift from Lee's parents to me after a holiday to Australia. I think they go with the wooden set perfectly, don't you?
The children & I made grandparents, Godparents & the boys teachers boxes of chocolate truffles for Christmas. I had fun creating the gift wrapping & my new polka dot bag was just right to hold the boxes when we went out delivering them to everyone. We made the milk chocolate truffles into little Christmas puddings with a blob of melted white chocolate & some holly leaves & berry sprinkles. They LOVED putting those on the top!
Luke helped me to bake the Christmas cake which we took to share at my parents house on Christmas Day.
Annie-Joy helped me to ice it with royal icing & I put the sugar Mary, Joseph & Jesus on top along with a gold candle, gold ribbon & some glitter! Not bad for a first attempt!! LOL!! We had a wonderful day celebrating Jesus' birth with my parents & we all really enjoyed going to their rather high Anglican church Christmas Day service. The boys took their Dr Who Daleks to show which rather delighted the vicar I think!
At New Year Annie-Joy made some Christmas tree biscuits with me. She loved sprinkling the sprinkles onto the icing & putting a marzipan star on the top.
And the last of our festive baking was this gingerbread house that Jordan & Luke made with me. Timmy helped with the house construction & snow placement! We were all pretty delighted with the results. We ate it when my mum came up to stay when Lee & I took the boys to their first pantomime, Peter Pan, at Liverpool Empire Theatre (which they LOVED!!). All in all we had a lovely Christmas full of fun family times. I am very thankful to God for the gift of his son Jesus & for the opportunity to remember his birth at Christmas time. :o)
... here are some piccies of some of the Christmas festivities in the Davies household! Timmy was one of 3 year 1 children chosen to have a 'going on the stage' part in the school Christmas play 'A Tale of Two birthdays'. He did a fabulous job of being radiant & angelic!
Luke was in the party guest crowd & did a marvelous job being enthusiastic, singing loudly (when he knew the words well) & looking like he was joining in with the songs with great gusto when he didn't have a clue what the words were! 10 out of 10 for miming skills! :o)
After much deliberation & difficulty we decided to buy an artificial Christmas tree this year. The kids had a lot of fun decorating it. Annie-Joy put all the gift box decorations in one corner of the tree! Every day someone would secretly move the decorations around so it never looked the same on any two days. It was jolly cheerful!
My favourite Christmas decoration is the lovely wooden nativity scene that my mum bought us last year. It is very popular with the children too- especially Baby Jesus.
The sheep didn't come with the scene originally but were a gift from Lee's parents to me after a holiday to Australia. I think they go with the wooden set perfectly, don't you?
The children & I made grandparents, Godparents & the boys teachers boxes of chocolate truffles for Christmas. I had fun creating the gift wrapping & my new polka dot bag was just right to hold the boxes when we went out delivering them to everyone. We made the milk chocolate truffles into little Christmas puddings with a blob of melted white chocolate & some holly leaves & berry sprinkles. They LOVED putting those on the top!
Luke helped me to bake the Christmas cake which we took to share at my parents house on Christmas Day.
Annie-Joy helped me to ice it with royal icing & I put the sugar Mary, Joseph & Jesus on top along with a gold candle, gold ribbon & some glitter! Not bad for a first attempt!! LOL!! We had a wonderful day celebrating Jesus' birth with my parents & we all really enjoyed going to their rather high Anglican church Christmas Day service. The boys took their Dr Who Daleks to show which rather delighted the vicar I think!
At New Year Annie-Joy made some Christmas tree biscuits with me. She loved sprinkling the sprinkles onto the icing & putting a marzipan star on the top.
And the last of our festive baking was this gingerbread house that Jordan & Luke made with me. Timmy helped with the house construction & snow placement! We were all pretty delighted with the results. We ate it when my mum came up to stay when Lee & I took the boys to their first pantomime, Peter Pan, at Liverpool Empire Theatre (which they LOVED!!). All in all we had a lovely Christmas full of fun family times. I am very thankful to God for the gift of his son Jesus & for the opportunity to remember his birth at Christmas time. :o)
2 comments:
Glorious! Have you backed up these blogs so you'll always have this brilliant record of the 'Tribes childhood? It's really great!
Love
DaddyO xxxxxx
Jolly delicious and fun! Even though we still have ice and MORE snow it feels a long time since Christmas. It was good eh? The truffles were delicious- only snag was there weren't enough!!!LOL
Enjoy a relaxing day with that little girl of yours.
Mum xx
ps the twins look 'angelic' hehe
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