December re-cap

This past December was really fun.  I don't usually say that about December on a whole because I am definitely not a snow person and love the summer and sun.  It may be due in part to the fact that we haven't had much snow up here this winter so far, or that we had a few days that hit 50, but what I really think it was, was all the fun stuff we got to do with the boys this month.

We started the first weekend of December with a drive that took forever to get us to Santa's Village.  I was a little apprehensive about this trip, because it was so far, it would cut right into the middle of nap time and my husband's family was going with us, mother in law, father in law, brother in law and his new girlfriend.  Plus I had never been, so I had no idea if there was going to even be anything that the boys could do.  I was planning on spending less time there than it had taken us to get there!

Little did I know that we would have so much fun!
The first thing the boys wanted to do was go on the sleigh ride that takes up over the park on a little tour of the park.  I was totally unprepared for them to want to do this, but totally prepared for a meltdown once they realized what we were actually going to do.  This is how it went down:

And continued on like this:

And ended with a visit to Santa after waiting in a line that lasted forever and the kids had more patience for than I did:

We then headed home and stopped for a yummy dinner at the Muddy Moose in North Conway.  I love it there and they have an excellent kids menu.

The boys lived off the excitement of that for the next week until it came time to start planning how the boys were going to celebrate their Uncle Kirk's birthday.  The boys decided they wanted to make crowns for the birthday boy:

And cake:

They were very determined the entire time that they were doing the decorating all by themselves and did not need help from either me or my mother in law.  I think they did a pretty good job! 

So the next day we got everyone together and headed out to Newfields to find the perfect Christmas tree.  This is a bit of a challenge... as my mother in law is very particular about what kind of tree we get and it has to fit the perfect parameters that she sets... we usually see every tree in the whole farm before she finally decides it was one of the ones we saw when we first walked in... here are a few shots of what it looks like while the family picks up the trees and Nana makes her decision: 

Until FINALLY the tree is found, cut and wrapped: 

And we headed back to the house to give Uncle Kirk his birthday presents, crown and cake.  The boys had to escort their individual cakes over to Kiki all by themselves so we helped them carry their cakes over so they could present them to Kiki.

Now that I am looking at this post... I think that will be all for now and I will do a separate Christmas recap a little later.  I will be writing about splitting holidays with families and how to survive Christmas with two two year olds!