The McMahon Family

We did it! We baked our Christmas cookies last night. It was fun and I only had one two meltdowns when Patrick spilled red icing all down the counter to the floor and they got a little silly. Luckily, Mac saw me about to lose it and rushed in and cleaned it up. Actually, they both did and by the time I got there, there wasn’t much for me to do. Other than that, we had a great time. They were HUGE helps in the kitchen this year! I mean huge. They did their own rolling, cutting and decorating. Mac helped me with my peanut butter cookies including prepping them for the sheet, putting them in the oven, taking them out for the Hershey kisses, and moving them from cooling rack to cooling rack to make room for more. And Patrick helped pick up and put them all away in containers for me. I was amazed! Quite a successful night.

It says Doodle!

After decorating for awhile, Patrick looked up and said, “I’ve done 7 and you’ve only done 3!” Yes, my Patrick. That is yet another picture of you two. You work like a tornado. Your brother is meticulous and detail oriented.

My happiness

Mac plays the the trumpet. When he started playing guitar, he had to practice at home a lot. His lessons were only a half hour on the weekends, but he had to work all through the week at home. Because of that, I got to hear him progress. With band, he does most of his practicing at school. I mean, they have band every other day. That’s a lot of playing in a week, so he doesn’t practice a lot at home. So with the band concert quickly approaching and I hadn’t heard him play much at home, I started to get a little nervous that it wasn’t going to go well! Then he started practicing more at home to get ready and I was pleasantly surprised! He can play the trumpet! 🙂

https://youtu.be/_x-1yw08aW0

Dressed and ready to go! SOOO handsome!

Matthew’s band played after Mac.

Enjoying Matthew’s concert.

I was also pleased at the concert that they could play songs as a band! The song I selected to share shows his enjoyment. Here he is enjoying the music while he plays. 🙂

https://youtu.be/E2pSCfjwSpQ

Like any other family, our boys love to drive around and look at Christmas lights in neighborhoods. I saw on Facebook that there was something called Mcintosh Christmas Lights Show. I thought it was a neighborhood light show. But when we got there, it was just one family that does their house and sets it to music. If I had researched better, I would have known this! So the boys were bummed when we pulled up. Then we tuned in to the radio station that was posted…

https://youtu.be/DG_zYvMtEN0

We went home happy. 🙂

Well, it wasn’t really a program. It was Kingdom Kids leading worship. And the boys didn’t want to go. But I made them go to rehearsal. But they didn’t go that Sunday. Whatever. Apparently, it was pure torture for Mac to be up there anyway. I guess he’s too old for stuff like that….

Before the practice we had a pizza dinner. We had some time to kill before it started, so Patrick stole my phone.

Again, he looked ready to be sick.

Patrick wasn’t super thrilled either.

And just because it makes me laugh out loud, I have to share the clip I took to show Shannon their enthusiasm:

https://youtu.be/U3BmnyCFMEY

But they did give me cute smiles afterwards.

Patrick’s program was fabulous. He sang. He motioned. He did not smile, but that’s okay. We actually got there early enough that we had front row seats!

I selected two of the songs I enjoyed the most. 🙂

https://youtu.be/HrOxfqRtQ14