The build up to Christmas

Our house has been a hive of activity the past few days. Yes I've managed to do a bit more scrapping (2 more pages) but have also done some tidying up too.

On Monday Aaron helped me to make mince pies.... yummy

Yesterday was some last minute food shopping for me... got the fresh stuff for the makings of my lunch for Thursday..... spent the afternoon scrapping. Even Aaron has managed to scrap 3 pages over the last few days.... (I promise that I will post all these scrap pages soon soon... just need to scan and then upload.)

In amongst that Aaron has helped me make some table decorations for Thursday too... will show you after the event!

And so it is on to Christmas Eve.... boy has it been busy. This morning I cleaned house!! Yip vacuumed and got the dust bunnies all collected. Even scrubbed the upstairs and downstairs bathrooms.... so it's all nice and clean for my folks to come stay. Then I spent the afternoon cooking.... did our gammon and made three salads. Just got a dressing and the pud to do in the morning.

After supper tonight we found this site awaiting us outside:

Stunning or what??? We might not have a star to guide us to the Lord Jesus tonight but He sure gave us a beautiful sunset to show us that HE IS LORD!!

Keith and Aaron even found time for a quick game of Chess.... they've played a few games over the last two days and each one gets a bit easier for Aaron to comprehend the rules. Nice to see Father and son bonding.

And then it was bath time.... with bubbles.... and so it seems like Father Christmas arrived early in our house....

Oops, my mistake.... it's just Aaron having fun in the bath.... hehehe.

And lastly before bedtime Aaron put our milk and cookies for Father Christmas... or at least a mince pie... and only one mind you as Father Christmas has all those cookies to eat at all the other houses too!

So now just a last few gifts to wrap before heading for bed. Sleep tight and sweet dreams.