Crazy December

How has December gone by so fast. It seems like the month just started yet its almost over!
We have done lots of fun things together. Here are a few highlights of the fun things we've done!

















We went to the festival of trees with some friends. The trees were beautiful and there were some great activities for the kids to do. They got to see Santa, though only Taylee would get near him. They got a bear that was sick. They saw a train and got to do some Christmas crafts.
It was a fun outing!!
























We set our Christmas tree up along with our decorations. The girls loved getting everything out of the boxes and putting it around the house. We got a fake tree last year and it is so beautiful we love it. Even if it doesn't smell like a real tree!
I will be sad to put all of our decorations away. I wish our lights and tree could stay up all year round.





















We had a great ward party at the beginning of the month. We had a "Back to Bethlehem" theme. We dressed up to go to our party! It was a great party and our activities committee did a great job.

Next we have been learning each week about how different countries celebrate Christmas. We learned about Christmas in Mexico, Italy and Sweden. We did a craft and talked about what their traditions were. It was fun to learn about different ways people celebrate.

With all the rain and running around we had to take some time out to go and play outside! Rain boots are a must here. We did find out that we need to replace one set of rain boots due to a hole! They were soaked by the time they ran through the puddles 10 times!! Nothing like fresh air and some fun.

I just had to throw this one in!! He had been getting better at not screaming so much and smiling!! This is him cheesing it!! Oh he is a funny one!

This past weekend we went to a Christmas light boat parade on the river. They had boats that had lights all over them. Some fun ones were..... the school bus, Santa flying fishing and the fire truck. Our kids had so much fun we can't wait to do it again next year.

Last night we had our cousin party. We have 4 cousins that live by us. So some of us got together. We had one cousin out of town and one cousin that had the flu. We had a white elephant gift party and ate dinner and played games until midnight!! it was so much fun. The kids played until they were dead tired!!

Its been a fun December already. We have lots more fun things planned!!!