A little Christmas, a new sunbeam, twins day and more!

First, I'd like to say Thanks to everyone who responded to my call for help! I really appreciate it, it helped calm my nerves a little to know people out there would support me if it came to that, but we found our last runner, and I think we are set for RAGNAR! Yeah, look out April 15th, there will be a major blog about that!
So I figured I would try and finish the updating! Starting off with Twins day at the kids school. I dont actually like to support these kind of things, because I think it makes some kids feel left out if they dont come up with a close friend, so on that note, I never mention it, remind them, or bring it up to the kids, because either way it just wasnt a big deal! But this year, they both had good friends that they arranged things with. Jake apparently could have given me a weeks notice, but instead his friends dad had to let me know a couple days before, and then Lily sweetly let me know the NIGHT before! So we didnt come up with anything really great but it was a lot of fun for the kids to have a "twin"! Even funnier, Jakes friends name is Jacob, so they even matched names they said!

Here is CODY the SUNBEAM!! Another reminder that my baby isnt a baby anymore. I was so excited for this day and super nervous! He has actually had a rough time with me being in nursery. I never had any problems with him until I started as the nursery leader. Anyways, he was not looking forward to the idea of leaving me and being in a new class, so I made it this big fun deal, had a little graduation for all 10 of the leaving sunbeams, gave them candy, sunglasses. The parents loved it, some kids liked it. By the time they walked into the primary room though, several kids were crying, including Cody. He wouldnt let me leave his side. He is still having a rough time, and Nephi is constantly called back to helping out a little. Sad, huh? Oh well though, because neither Jake nor Lily ever cared that I was around. At least this shows he loves me :) Doesnt he look like he is up to some trouble though in this pic?

Okay, and here are some Christmas pics, of course we made gingerbread houses... or graham cracker houses I mean... well graham cracker creations... apparently my family was in a little bit of a funny mood, because there were all sorts of creations that night! Everyones favorite though, was Nephis AT-AT walker... complete with gummy bear Luke hanging from a rope underneath.

We had houses, a nativity scene, forts, castles, modern art, an AT-AT walker, but mostly we had lots of fun! Cant wait to see what we all come up with next year! We should make this a competition.. that way the Alders can still compete with pics!