Little Boys

I had a fun filled Saturday and Sunday. It started with this cutie coming to my house to play with me first thing in the morning! Bode and I had a great time and he got to make his first gingerbread house with me. He would poke a piece of candy on it and then get busy toddling around and then later come by and poke another piece on...

And of course he got to taste a few...thus the drool. Bode and I had a good morning!

By later afternoon we met up with Amy and Garrett and Ethan to watch the Chandler Lighted parade. They have such a great parade going with floats and lights and all kinds of great things. A few years back we always went with Amy and the boys and boy has there been an improvement to the parade in that time. We bundled up with quilts and watched for Aiden to come by, he was with his boy scout troop, they each had battery lights on them and Chris was walking along with Aiden and his Santa hat . All my photos from the parade were BAD, hurry back camera, the I phone doesn't do so well at night!

Then the rain moved in....so once Aiden came by then we all went back to the car as it rained and rained. What an adventure, we don't get to walk in the rain to much. We peeled wet clothes off little boys and got them in our car with the heat on to warm up, Aiden and Chris found us and Ken and I brought the little guys home with us for a spend the night! The washer started, shoes out to dry... You never appreciate how cute that is to see those little bitty shoes all lined up when you are the parent so now I even take a picture of how cute that is....isn't being the Grandparent the best!

Everyone was up bright and early on sunday so we got right into some fun. They got to make their gingerbread houses... Here is Garrett with his.

Aiden and his masterpiece...

Ethan looking so proud...
Back to Garrett working intently on his masterpiece. They took a ton of time this year and seemed to really enjoy it.

Ethans chocolate santa kept shrinking....... this was all before b-fast! Shhhh don't tell!
Garrett was building an outdoor firepit on his!

Aiden and Garrett loved being able to do their own frosting. I had built them the day before so we could just do the decorating and not have casualties.

And in between they all enjoyed the train being up. Ken and I stayed up late the night before getting it up so they could play with it. Ethan got to drive this year with supervision, a first for him.
A good time for us all to start our holiday fun. Ethan realized the little candy balls we had to decorate the houses would bounce ......I"m off to hose out the house!