Today is the last day of Hanukah. Tonight we lit nine candles and danced around the kitchen, my boys giggling. Now the house smells like ginger bread and the boys are both asleep, life is good.

We have now moved in to Christmas mode. Our extended family celebration is this Sunday and we have been busily making these cute pasta angle ornaments for gifts. I purchased a hot glue gun this week and it is so much fun.

The angles are made from four different pasta; body is rigatoni, the wings farafelle, arms elbow macaroni and the hair is occhi. The head is a hazel nut. I glue guned it all together and then sprayed then white. I then drew on the face in permanent marker. I also added some raffia around their necks as a scarf but I was so excited that I photographed then before that. All in all I think that they are super cute.