Twas the week before Christmas...

Silas and Avery are so excited about Christmas... or, maybe they sense the mounting excitement and aren't sure why, but love joining in the spirit of the season.  I've always wanted to make a gingerbread house but haven't mustered the guts to try one from beginning to end.  This Mickey and Minnie Mouse Gingerbread Kit sounded like just what we needed.  A little silly girl found it "hiding" in the pantry and was beyond excited.

We attempted the "no-fail" gingerbread house and followed instructions included (well, sort of)... and carefully placed all the candies on the cake while Mimi held the walls up (so the icing 'glue' could harden).  Then about 5 minutes after the event:

Oh well.   We will call in the professionals next year.

Last week at FBCJ, we were busy in the preparations for Keyboards at Christmas, a fabulous concert with six grand pianos, the big Quimby organ, and about 60 musicians.  Silas and Avery came to a rehearsal with me one night and lucked up on our first piano lesson!  Thank you Mrs Eva!  (Note: Silas and Avery don't do anything without snacks ready and waiting:-)

Silas came home and practiced a little bit.

Impromptu photo session:

Grace and Micajah hosted their first annual Christmas party at their house - what a fun night!  Ralphael and his crew (our fellow Grenada native:-) entertained us with Christmas jazz.  The Gore gals even did a number with the singing butcher Marvin (if you haven't shopped at the Kroger meat counter, you've been missing out on Marvin's songs!).  Jingle Bells!

All in a day's work at MSMOC.  DEUCE!