Christmas Festivities

The Nutcracker

Even though we've lived in WA for almost 6 years now, and we've seen The Nutcracker quite a few times, we've never seen PNB's Nutcracker.  So this year, Jordan and I went.  It was amazing!  Getting Jordan to pose for a picture was NOT amazing.

Decorating the House

I absolutely love decorating for Christmas, but I think it took me an entire week to finally get it all done.  Summer and the girls were eager to help...Tyson and Mike, not so much.

Baking

Seems like I never quite get all the baking done that I plan to.  This year, the Pula got forgotten.  But Mike got his Nanaimo bars and Summer got to decorate sugar cookies.  And the girls did their baking extravaganza with their friends.

(Can you tell which ones Summer made?)

Christmas Sunday

One of my very favorite days of the year!

 "Bishop" had to stay late...even on Christmas Sunday, so we got a picture of the two of us when he got home.

Lights

We only managed to get a couple of us at Evergreen lights this year, BUT...we made up for it by taking the whole family to Zoolights.  Too bad it was POURING rain the entire time (only in Seattle is the zoo completely packed full of people looking at lights in the pouring rain).  But it was a pretty great display and Summer was so excited to see a tiger and sharks!!  

 

Preschool Performance
It's nice to have a little kid Christmas concert to go to again!!  Summer walked in with her tongue sticking out, they sang so many cute songs, then when it was over some kid yelled "what about the cake"--hahaha.   They all wore crowns that said "Happy Birthday Jesus" so I guess she hadn't been to a birthday party without cake!  I love that she goes to a church preschool...even if it isn't our church.

Here she is with her best friend Dana...I should have taken one with her other best friend Antone as well.