Our sweet neighbors, Tony and Rachel, invited us to their work Christmas party. She works at a lawyer's office and they go all out with "Waffle Love" waffles, Santa and a music/light show. Miles and Gwen met Santa at other locations this season, but I think this is the only time I managed to get the obligatory Santa pics. Santa told them they were most definitely on the nice list. Miles and Gwen were very specific about what they wanted for Christmas. Miles wanted a book about soccer and Gwen wanted a princess book and a candy cane with candy inside it.
We had our ward Christmas breakfast as some point in December. :) They decided to serve all the food family style on each table instead of having to stand in line and take it back to your seat. BEST IDEA EVER!!! They had Santa there to take pictures with and then emailed them to us later.
Another Party! Richie's family's ward was having their Christmas party and they invited us to tag along. They did a really cool theme this year, "A night in Bethlehem." They went all out! They had costumes for everyone to dress up in and get their picture taken by a nativity backdrop. They decorated it just like "the olden days" and served old style food from the era. When you arrived they gave the kids little burlap sacks with a marbles and things that kids at the time of Jesus would have played with, including golden coins to pay for your dinner. They had game and craft stations set up so you could participate in things Jesus would have as a child. After food, they had the primary act out Luke 2. It was a great night!
Here's the kids helping me decorate the tree. Holy cow, they were SO anxious to get the decorations up this year. When we got back from Thanksgiving and some of our neighbors had their Christmas lights up, the kids were practically in tears that we didn't have any up. They had to be really patient with me getting up the energy to get that stuff done this year. They decorated the tree almost completely by themselves, and they take the liberty to re-decorate it almost on a daily basis. It's extremely bottom heavy and I was worried how that would play out with a mobile baby, but she's been surprisingly non-interested in it. Whew! Also, had to snap a picture of how Miles set up one of our nativities this year. Very fitting I thought. :)
We've been busy making gifts and sending them out. The kids helped me make cinnamon ornaments to take to their friends and they loved it. We also turned them into bookmarks for great-grandparent gifts. They turned out so cute I might have to make more for me!
The kids begged and begged to make gingerbread houses. I didn't want to go to all that work just for my 2 kids (sounds bad doesn't it). So we decided to invite all the people in my visiting teaching "network" and count it for December. :) I put a bunch of little houses together with hot glue the night before and everyone pitched in candy. It was crazy and fun. Mission accomplished.
These last 2 pictures aren't Christmas related in any way, but they sure are cute! Gwen is quite the fashionista. She always comes up with the best outfits. On this particular day I said, "Ok, you can't wear 2 skirts, one is enough." And she said, "It's not 2 skirts mom! One is a skirt and one is a tutu." Her crazy hair cut is growing out quickly and she said she wants it to be long again. But it's at this awkward stage where some of the funky cuts are growing out all weird. I can usually hide it by curling it etc, but along with her fashion sense, she has her own sense about her hair. It's usually a fight and she wants to do it all by herself, which tends to make her look like a really cute homeless child. :) The other picture is just cute cause it's got 2 of my favorite people in it. :)
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I feel so very blessed...to be a father and grandfather of such beautiful children!
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