It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.....

We made gingerbread houses at home.  Luke and Finn were partners.

Finn also made gingerbread houses at school and I went in to help.

First time on the ice!  Its gotten a little warmer over the last few days (mid 30's) so we will have to wait awhile on skating, but the rink is getting close to being completely frozen.

Luke won Player of the Game at his tournament last weekend

Fun hockey moms on Luke's team

Luke's team won 3rd place at the Lumberjack tournament last weekend.

Flashback...Ran across this earlier in the week and thought it was hilarious

Finished Gingerbread houses

Finn and I at school making his gingerbread house

Liam and Aiden were partners

Finn and his buddy, Haakyn

We have had a fun and busy couple of weeks leading up to Christmas next week.  Finn enjoyed decorating gingerbread houses both at school and at work.  I was able to go to school and help him decorate (or eat as much candy as possible!).

We also decorated gingerbread houses with his brothers at home.  Finn and Luke were partners while Liam and Aiden worked together.  Let's just say that Finn is not everyone's favorite partner, but Luke is very patient and always volunteers to work with Finn.

Luke's team was in another tournament last weekend.  His team faced some very good competition and managed to finish in third place which wasn't bad considering they had a very hard tournament the weekend before and finished in first place.  Luke played well in the tournament and had one game where we finished in a tie 1-1, but Luke got the Player of the Game award.  It was a tough game where he made several very good saves at the end to keep us in the game.

Our backyard ice rink is very close to being 100% functional.  John filled the rink last weekend and it took several days for it to begin freezing.  Thankfully, we had some really cold temps with no snow and a lot of freezing took place before the temps started to rise a bit over the last 24 hours.

The boys are excited for Christmas!  School finished for them today and they are counting the days until Christmas.  We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!  Enjoy your time with family and friends.