A CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN!! Yea! Thanks Mom! Everyday the kids opened a new box with some sort of surprise in it! It makes it feel like Christmas all month long!
These are the pictures the kids made for Ross and Rosina and we took a picture and emailed it because it is so expensive to mail stuff to them in Slavakia.
Here is the kids opening one of the Christmas coundown boxes.
Eliza makes sure her birthday gets attention amid the Christmas season. She does her own birthday count down and asked for weeks if she could invite a couple friends.
The Miller Birthday spanks. It's a hard tradition to kick.
My attempt at making a birthday cake for Eliza. She had been checking out books from the library and showing me what cakes she wanted. I am not good at decorating and did my best. The cake wasn't the best. It was really crumbly and was hard to spread icing on it without it just falling apart. Not the best, but not too bad either!
Bethany is by Aaramie and Julia is behind Eliza. The other girls live a few blocks away. I don't really remember their names.
Christmas Morning with Arletta and Edwin and Andrea! We just love that Santa hides our stockings!
Eliza got an Apron, hula hoop, neck scarfs, Journal, activity book, wood flute, paracord bracelet making kit, long johns, colorful duct tape, and baloon art kit.
Aaramie got a lot of clothes and also got an apron. I spent hours looking for a shirt to match the skirt that I sewed for her and am very happy with the result. She got a binder, sheets, skirt organizer, pencils, umbrella, and clothes.
Andrea made all the kids a special balloon. Rick got a Ninja Turtle, Hyrum a dinosaur, Eliza an Elsa (from Frozen), Aaramie a Anna (from Frozen), and Vienna got a beautiful flower.
Rick got a NICE camping sleeping mat, a shirt and sweater, a compass, a leatherman multi-tool, and a really nice scooter.
Hyrum got a big exercise ball and all the kids fight over it. It is a fun toy. He also got a nice pump, alarm clock, pencil sharpener, nerf gun, and nerf darts.
Vienna got a light brite, etch a sketch, little cash register, dress up shoes, brush, and playdough.
And a little cell phone.
William got tools, shoes, charger, compass, and shirts. I got a jacket, neck scarfs, oven gloves, and several really neat things that Arletta got in Slavakia. She got an olive wood nativity that has a star you can twist and then it plays silent night.
It was pretty fun to see William and Edwin play Skylanders together.
Andrea is a balloon artist and showed Eliza how to make several balloon animals.
We had hoped for Snow when Edwin and Andrea came and we got it! Yea! We got a lot all at once and it was great for sledding, snowball fights, and making snowmen. I didn't get a picture but we made an Edwin and Andrea and baby snowman.
