We had a very enjoyable December but I have not kept up on blogging in the midst of it! This will be a quick effort to hit the highlights as I sit here enjoying the frost on the grass, the sunrise over the mountains and the hummingbirds coming to our feeder - some of the things I often enjoy in the mornings as I look out our back windows in the winter.
We went to a Christmas party at our church where there was face painting, treats and an antique sleigh for pictures...
We had several days of clear, cold weather with little rain. It was wonderful - great running weather and such a nice break from the usual cloudy rainy winter weather. The kids even got out on the trampoline!
I ran the Jingle Bell 5K with my good friend Jessica in downtown Seattle. It was COLD but still a lot of fun!
Christmas tree decorating - the kids were so excited they started dancing with each other. Haven't seem them do that before.
Of course in short order the dancing turned into wrestling.
Christian was especially excited about decorating this year. He would have decorated the whole house (his way) if I had let him. I did let him do a lot though - he really enjoys it. He even teared up in the car in mid November when I told him I wasn't sure if we would put up lights on the outside of our house this year. We did end up getting outside lights up - mostly for him - but it was an easier job than we had expected and we did enjoy how pretty they were. No pictures of that though.
We went to see the "Clam Lights" at Lake Washington for Grammy's birthday - with Ivars for dinner. That was the 2nd or 3rd time we have done that. The beginning of a tradition?
Sunday morning services in December at our church the kids came in for a short talk with the pastor. Ezra always seemed to be front and center.
The boys shopped for each other again and took turns wrapping what they bought. Ezra wrote his own tag for the first time. I love how he is practicing his writing and how the boys enjoy doing this kind of thing for each other.
We had half a day of snow the Friday before Christmas. It was supposed to be the last day of school before break but school was cancelled. The kids got Christmas vacation one day early! We played hard in the snow for the few hours it lasted.
We used up all the snow in our front yard and our neighbors contributed to our snow man by making one of the body parts from the snow in their front yard. We were able to make a pretty tall snowman. We turned him into a Sounders fan.
Ezra tried to swing in the snow!
Christmas Eve letters to and from Santa...
Christmas morning - new pjs
We went to Grammy and Pa's later in the day and were able to spend time with them as well as Aunt Karen, Uncle Chris and Annika and Levi. It was a quiet, fun, relaxing Christmas which we are very thankful for.
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