It's Christmas Time!!!

Man, oh man did we have a busy holiday season.  I don't even remember the order of most of these things so I'll just randomly throw them all in. We did:

A youth activity at church, where the girls played games with the kids for two hours so the parents could go Christmas shopping.

Rode the carousel downtown by Santa's workshop (how I miss the Strong Museum of Play).

 

Went ice skating for the first time!

 

Saw Santa a number of times including when we went to check out the light display with our friends, the Whites.

 

Went to a Christmas Eve service with the Rileys who later joined us for our traditional Bethlehem dinner on the floor (no pictures included). 

 

 

 

 Opened stockings Christmas Eve and presents Christmas morning of course!

And since The Man had to work, I took the kids up to Tahoe as guests of the Rileys.  The Boy has been wanting to be back in snow so I sucked it up and made the drive.  We did sledding and the Boy even went snow skiing for the first time.  Unfortunately I was not supermom that day and left my camera at home.  But he did really great for his first time and I was proud of him for trying something new!

Phew.  Let's get on with normal.

Thanksgiving 2013

We celebrated Thanksgiving here with The Man's mother and father and one of his sisters (who was about 8 months pregnant) and her husband. We figured we should probably buy a dining room table for such an event, so we broke down and did it.  Here we are:

We also invited our neighbors, realtors, good friends, and all around great guys the Rileys to join us. It was a nice dinner where I did very little of the cooking or cleaning!