Christmas in August!

So what do you do when your kids are driving you up the wall during summer vacation and you have run out of ideas to entertain them? Why, you have Christmas in August of course!! I had a strange craving to watch a christmas movie and it kind of snowballed from there....it kept us busy all morning and then we all took a fabulous nap!  Here are some highlights from our holly jolly day :)

We had some super yummy hot chocolate...and made pumpkin muffins...which we enjoyed while watching the single most amazing Christmas movie of all time.....

thats right, A Christmas Story....the boys especially love the running away from the bully scenes ("Scut Farkus....he had yellow eyes! so help me God, yellow eyes!")  Sigh.....I love it so much it's a little scary...the only problem with letting the kids share my passion is having to lie to them and tell them that he did actually say fudge ;)

We also wrapped presents of course - they had a blast running around the house finding things to wrap - and i must say, they have inherited my talent for wrapping - (i mean, come on....it's going to be ripped open anyways, who cares what it looks like??)

We decorated the tree while listening to Christmas music after I retrieved everything from the pit of despair that is our crawl space...they were totally into that part....(I mean watching me fight off the mammoth spider that apparently felt lonely for human contact, although the decorating was fun too)...

The two younger boys went right to "sleep" so Santa could come (Gavin in my bathrobe)...

And then we opened our presents....

and Emmy girl checked out the tree (from a distance)....

When it was all said and done the boys begged me to leave it up so they could play again, which is why there are still ornaments strewn all over their bedroom....but it was worth it...

So what crazy things have you done to entertain your kids??