On Sunday December 15th, after church, we hosted our First Christmas Ornament Decorating and Cookie Swap at our house. I hope this will become an annual event. We had a great time and I hope all who attended did too. The pictures above are Rachel helping me prepare the Reese's fudge for the cookie swap the night before and Rebekah taste testing a sample. Can you tell she approved?!
We had 30 of our church family and friends come and we were so excited. We fed everyone lunch first, lots of chili and chicken noodle soup to be had. I was not feeling the best this day. Thanks so much to all who pitched in and helped with serving, preparing and clean up. I appreciated it so much!
After lunch, we headed up to the playroom and spread out all the ornaments ( Thank you to Melanie for contributing most of the ornaments!) and all the fun things everyone brought to decorate them!
Here is the kid friendly table where the stickers, glitter glue, icicles and plastic snow were a huge hit!
Here is the other table where the icicles, ribbon and glitter were a big hit too!
Here are the older girls with their creations. They did a great job!
I just got one picture of the cookie swap after we decorated ornaments. Probably because I was busy filling our plate with all the goodies...
After we finished with the cookie swap, all the kids ended up back in the basement to play. Actually, we figured out a little later, they were actually practicing their music for the Christmas play at church
Here they came to serenade us with Away in A Manger, complete with the manger and Amaya playing the piano. They did a great job!
Thank you to all who came to share this time at our home. We had a great time and look forward to next year already!