Frontier Homestead Night

I heard about the Frontier Homestead here in Cedar from the Newspaper. That do a few Christmas Activity Nights that you can go and do old fashion holiday stuff, and see Santa Claus so we went Monday night for Family Home Evening.

We walked around the cabins and heard a Christmas Story by firelight, made Christmas Cord (rope with Christmas colors) and made cloth dolls. In the last house we saw Santa Claus and traced around the kids heads and made silhouette.

It was a really fun experience. The cabins are usually history exhibits but while we were there the stoves were warm, fireplaces lit and oil lit lamps everywhere. We also made Christmas cards with the printing press and wrote with feather and ink quills.Then of course there was Santa. Parker asked for trains and Kora only got close enough to get the Candy Cane.

Gingerbread Tradition

We weren't able to do the big Gingerbread house party at my Aunt's house this year but no worries, my mother helped me make the gingerbread during our trip for Thanksgiving.

We brought it home to put it together with the kids and . . . Well . . . it's a much simpler version this year.

We were doing great while the kids were making their cookie trees, the walkway and putting up the Christmas Lights but then they crashed! It was fun while it lasted and boy did we have a sugar rush afterwards.