Growing Up

Sent my oldest off on his 9th grade dinner cruise in Seattle tonight. All the kids who I've seen since he was in 2nd grade have grown up so much. Young ladies in heels & dresses with their hair all done. Young men in suits & ties all about 6ft tall. I was just amazed & very proud mom as I dropped Hunter off for his night of fun.

Then I came home to round up all of Jacob's friends for his 10th birthday sleepover. My youngest is getting so big as well. As he said no more single digits for me soon !

Birthday money from Ommie & Pawpaw. He was super excited! He got tickets to a Sounders game in July when dad is home from mom & dad. No birthday cake until dad arrives home safe he said, so we hope to have the cake soon!

It's fun & exciting to watch all my boys growing up. But it really does go so fast. Not sure where all the time has gone.

Lots of Gingerbread

My rather amazing best friend Sam decided to invite everyone in the neighborhood it seemed over to her house to decorate homemade gingerbread houses. She makes the houses from scratch every year & this year I think there was about 16 houses made waiting in her kitchen for little kids.

 

Here they all are lined up waiting for children to be creative

The teens sat at a seprate table because they could not sit with little kids, geezzz

 

Of course I had to decorate one of the extra houses because it is just to fun to pass up! I also ate way to much candy, I can't believe I don't have a stomach ache yet.

This was almost done- the other side I added a skittles Christmas tree .

Look at all those fabulous gingerbread houses! It was so much fun eating candy & hanging out with the kids. Bekah was a little worried so she had to have a sip or two...

It was a good time for everyone & in the end all the houses look great!

Hope everyone is enjoying their week leading up to Christmas as much as we are so far!