Lately: It's Almost Christmas!

Our last week before the long holiday break was jam-packed with fun activities. Here's a peak at what we've been up to lately:

Our winter Cub Scout campout was at Texana Park, but last weekend's forecast was a rainy one, so we loaded up the car and headed down to the park on Friday night. Several of our Cub Scout friends joined us and we spent the evening running, playing and exploring. On Saturday morning, with bellies full of breakfast tacos, the boys went fishing for the first time! We also completed a three mile hike and a service project before heading back to Houston.

Will's week was a touch stressful. He competed in the grade-level spelling bee on Wednesday morning.

He spent hours practicing and did really well, but misspoke when spelling "pomposity" and was eliminated. I was SO proud of how hard he worked!

Will also had his Name That Book team tryouts this week, which ended in a tie-breaker on Thursday morning. We are excited that he is on the team again this year and he is already busy reading and rereading the 30 books required for the competition.  

This monkey lost his tooth on Wednesday, so now he can sing, "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth!"

The boys had their holiday parties/service projects at school on Thursday. They enjoyed a pizza lunch after decorating and filling bags for Kids Meals, Inc.

The boys also brought home ornaments that they made at school. Will decorated this wooden heart

and Henry spent over two weeks sewing this felt ornament.

On Friday night, while out to dinner with a group of friends, Santa walked up to our restaurant and sat down to listen to gift requests! We were thrilled since we hadn't see Santa yet this year. Will asked for a robot and Henry asked for Magformers.

Yesterday, we were invited to a showing of Star Wars: The Force Awakens at Studio Movie Grill.  

We ended the evening at the Houston Arboretum's Winter Solstice Party. We enjoyed dinner with Gramma and Grampa, walked the trails and looked at the night sky through telescopes and made these cute cork reindeer.

Now that school is out for the winter break, the boys are counting down the days 'til Christmas!