Easter

I only got pictures of finding eggs at my parents house

Plus here's the video of finding baskets at home in the morning.

Easter Eggs

We always dye/color/decorate eggs a few different ways each Easter

Here are some of the ways we did it in 2015

Sharpie Markers:

Food dye with mini paint rollers:

We also just dipped them the traditional way, put on stickers and created reactions with baking soda and colored vinegar to color the eggs.

New Years Eve

Our New Years Eve for 2014

We had activities and snckas and such sorted into these brown paper bags, each with a time written on them. (About 15 minute intervals) and when would open the next bag each time and do what was inside.

Snacks, sparklers, coloring, etc

Christmas

Christmas eve at the Murphy's

Corin and Mommy jumping on the trampoline

The Denny's made their annual ornament and let my kids make some, too

Opening presents:

Christmas morning (with Parker and Aria in their new PJs) before heading downstairs

At the Tiemans Christmas day

We had a brunch and a gift exchange

Just a couple pics of my kids while we were there

Christmas Stuff

A bunch of pictures of our activities leading up to Christmas 2014

Decorating the big tree downstairs

The downstairs tree

The kids also got their own tree upstairs that they decorated their own way, and mostly with their own homemade decorations

The kids tree

Contact paper and green cellophane

Color sample Christmas trees

Making glue ornaments

A few of the glue ornaments after they dried

Trees made from foam and stickers

Parker just made these on his own.
Little presents with yarn to hang them on the tree

The kids also helped me make cinnamon dough, and we rolled and cut out Christmas shapes.

After they dries we painted them

Finished cinnamon dough ornaments

Handprint Santa Claus

The handprint Santa's were actually done at Glendale Glitters.

Speaking of which....

We went to Glendale Glitters. A friend who teaches dance was asked to set up a flash mob for on of the nights and we got to be a part of it. 

So Parker and I were part of a flash mob dancing to Justin Beiber at Glendale Glitters

If I can I will add the awful video of us dancing, but here are some pics of the night

Anna and Elsa were part of the flash-mob as well and the kids wanted a picture with them

Then There's the food:

We baked sugar cookies together and the kids decorated them for family home evening.

Cookies

And of course, we ate them afterwards

For family home evening another week we tried to make graham cracker "gingerbread" houses. 

A bit of a fail, since they wouldn't stand tall, but the they were fun and got decorated/eaten all the same

A lot of the treats from our advent were just candy but we got creative with a few:

grape/strawberry Santas

Banana Strawberry candy canes

Our ward had a Christmas party and only a couple of our kids would go sit with Santa, but that's ok, since he isn't real anyway ;)

We played with goop (cornstarch and water) dyed in Christmas colors and scented with peppermint for a little Christmas themed sensory activity:

At the Childrens Museum they made wreathes that also ended up on the kids' Christmas tree