Ally's class Christmas party

Ally's class celebrated Christmas with a Happy Birthday Jesus party at school. The kids decorated angel sugar cookies, played candy cane bingo, and made miniature Jesus in a manger ornaments. We wrapped up the party with a book gift exchange. Ally was given a darling little girls bedtime stories book that tied shut with pink ribbon. Not only was it a book of cute stories, but those pink ribbon ties helped Ally finally learn to tie her shoes! We practiced tying that book shut over and over and over.

I guess she's been wearing TOMS, ballet flats, and Uggs for too long. None of her shoes have laces, so she never had to learn.  Thank you Sophia for the cute book, and the perfect way to practice tying our shoes!

 

 

 

 

It's not Christmas until you make fudge.

We made four giant batches of fudge to deliver to the Everett Gospel Mission....minus maybe a half batch that we saved for ourselves. Ally and Hudson were great helpers!

 

 

Hudson's Christmas program

Hudson's program was the night after Ally's. He was excited for his big performance and assured us he knew all his songs and hand motions. The show started and all that work practicing fell at the wayside once he saw Dan in the audience. "Daddy! Daddy! Daddddyyyy!!!!"

Hudson spent then entire program (all seven minutes of it) frantically waving his arms, smiling, and greeting his daddy.

This kid loves his dad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Christmas star

Not surprisingly, Ally turned down a "part" in the Christmas program this year because she didn't want to wear the costume. Lol. That's my girl, she would rather wear her fancy Christmas dress. She looked beautiful up on stage singing and working those hand motions with her sparkly bracelets glistening in the lights. Love her.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

date night turned Christmas shopping

 

Santa's Secret Workshop

In December, I had the pleasure of participating in the 2nd annual Santa’s Secret Workshop in West Hollywood, California. The incredible event was put on by my friends Bill Horn and Scout Masterson, held at the Andaz Hotel in West Hollywood. Stars gathered to benefit LA Family Housing and were treated to manicures from mom.me, photos with Santa from HP, crafts from Joann Fabrics, and cookie decorating with Jenny Cookies! In addition to our cookie decorating station, we created two dessert displays for the guests to enjoy. The mom.me lounge housed a chic white and silver dessert bar filled with snowflake sugar cookies, snowball cookies, sparkly cake pops, coconut cupcakes, and our signature rose cake. In the main room, we created a North Pole Bakery dessert table overflowing with holiday themed desserts such as red velvet brownies, candy cane marshmallows, Christmas tree rice krispy treats, holiday fudge, oreo cake lollipops, santa hat sugar cookies and more. The event was so much fun. I had the chance to meet fellow Seattle-ites, Bachelor alums Jason and Molly Mesnick, and chat about their upcoming baby due this March. Pregnant Malin Akerman was just as cute as can be and even whispered the sex of her baby to me. Eek! So exciting. My sweet friend Tiffani Theissen came with her darling daughter Harper, who loved our cookie decorating station. Gilles Marini remembered us from last year’s event and left his family behind to sneak treats from our North Pole Bakery table. And my home away from home LA family, the whole Spelling/McDermott crew came out to kick off the holiday season with us. I always love seeing my girl Stella, the most fashionable 4 year old around! Already looking forward to next year's event!