Christmas time with the Drapers 2011

So this Christmas the Draper household was definitely a full house! Altogether we had 13 people staying in our 3 bedroom apartment! The Hammonds from Boise area came and Lois's mom and one of her sisters came also.

Juanita and Kira arrived on Tuesday the week before Christmas. The Hammonds got here the following Thursday night. The on Friday Robert worked til 1pm and the family went to the Tautphaus Park Zoo!  It was a special day because they have never opened during the winter. The animals are particularly active during the winter time and some even got Christmas gifts and treats to open and eat. We saw a very young lemur who was constantly trying to get a treat out of a stocking! It was so fun and cute!


So the following pictures are of the things we did on Christmas Eve.

Grandma Juanita and the girls are starting to make bread.

Grandma Juanita and the girls are kneading the dough.

Cheri gave the boys, much needed, haircuts!

LET THE SLEDDING BEGIN!
It snowed on Wednesday...just enough to stick and to play on. Not pictured is Robert and Sam because they were in the garage putting together the toy kitchen set that Grandma Carla got for her. Thank you Grandma Carla...for hours of agony!)

CHRISTMAS MINUTE TO WIN IT!

So Lois and I have never actually seen the t.v. show Minute to Win It, but we've seen commercials and heard of others doing it. So Lois put together our Christmas Eve activity and we had a blast! It was boys vs girls. One of the rules we had to follow was if you were doing one of the challenges, you had to be wearing a Santa hat!

In this game the objective was to stack some metal nuts as high as possible using only a candy cane in one minute!

The objective here was to stack the cups as high as you can in...you guessed it...one minute!

This challenge involved people, noses, lotion, pom poms, string and a certain amount of time....go figure.

In the voice of Bill Cosby: You see...you take the cookie and you put it on your face. Then you wiggle your face like it's hippin' and a hoppin' and a bippin' and a boppin' til you get in your mouth!

Into the game we incorporated the tradition and opening one gift on Christmas Eve. It went from youngest to oldest. But the challenge was to open a gift while wearing ski gloves or some mittens and if you didn't do it in the time allotted, then you didn't get the gift til Christmas day!

Jasmin was the exception to the glove rule because she took long enough anyway! But she wasn't exempt from the Santa hat rule!

 

Jasmin loved this gift...when it finally got unwrapped!