Boulder City has a fun little Santa Train for a few weekends every December. We have been going since Avrie was a baby. This is the first year they actually wrote a letter to Santa and dropped it in his mailbox!
We had to get a picture in the cute little sleigh, even if not one person was looking at the camera!
On the train!
Don't they look excited? :)
Finally, Santa made it to our train car! Chase (in the left corner) looks a little bit more excited now!
Noah had his family birthday party at Grandma and Grandpa Robbins!
He loves those handcuffs!
We went with the Jappe's to the Magical Forest at Opportunity Village. If you haven't been, you need to! It was so much fun, even if it was in the low 30's. There seriously were snow flurry's out there! Avrie said the train ride there is "way better than the Santa Train!"
We didn't even tell Noah to kiss Macie. Seriously, this boy just loves to kiss. I won't complain...until he gets to be a teenager.
They have a big wheel race track that the kids loved. I wish we would have got a picture of them going down the Alpine slide. It was huge, and these three dinky kids came flying down. They all had scared looks as they were coming down, but they all wanted to do it again!
Finally, the highly anticipated Robbins Family Christmas party. We start out at the church at about 11:30, and get home at about 9:00 that night. Sounds like a long time, but it flies by!
Avrie and her beloved gingerbread house that I will never be allowed to throw away!
As much as this little girl gets into trouble, how can you just not love that little face?
Pinata time! Avrie insisted on being on the big kid Pinata this year. I don't quite know why, she would have had more turns if she would have stuck to the 5 and under pinata!
To wrap up the evening, there is always a special guest! Santa calls each kid, and couple up to sit in his lap! We all get a gift and a candy cane! Macie had no fear, she walked right up there when her name was called!
Noah told Santa he wants cars. Whoops, looks like Santa is headed back to Walmart!
The close up picture of Avrie was blurry :(. She wants Pixo's, what a relief! 
Here is the huge Costco cake that he picked out. There is tons left over if anyone is craving Costco cake.
His face was just so funny in this picture, I had to throw it in there! He looks so happy about that gift!
At the beginning of the month, the kids started putting one leaf on our "Thankful Tree" each night before bed. It was really fun to hear what they had to say every night. Here are a few of my favorite's:
I was at the bookstore a few days ago and noticed these little guys. I know Noah would love them, but I just can't see paying $6 a piece for these 3 inch plastic guys. Does anyone know of another place to get them for a better price?
Even though we did the push in faces (best thing ever), I decided that the best part is taking the goop out. I cut off the tops and let them take out the goop. I don't think they enjoyed it as much as I used to!
Look at Macie, doesn't her face just say trouble? And yes, that is all she was during the de-gooping of the pumpkins. She just liked to put goop where it didn't belong!
We visited Grandma and Grandpa Robbins,
and Grandma and Grandpa Ashby before heading off to Trunk or Treat!
I had to throw this picture in because it wasn't as fuzzy as the last one!
Lincoln, Chase, Noah
