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| Merry Christmas! We've had a lovely holiday weekend. Christmas on Saturday is just about perfect-- we've had plenty of time for stories, games, walks, puzzles and visiting friends. Brandan canceled all his meetings for the entire week and we enjoyed the extra family time very much. |
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| We spent an evening earlier in the week decorating sugar cookies. |
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| The finished cookies were very colorful. Brandan's Australian cousins sent us some cookie cutters so we had some kangaroo and kookaburra cookies mixed in with the more typical reindeer and snowman shapes. |
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| Helen was so happy to be reunited with her doggie this week. She left him in Utah last month, but he made it safely back home in a package mailed by Maggie. |
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| Our Christmas celebration kicked off with dinner on Christmas Eve. We felt like the Whos as we feast, feast, feast, FEAST! |
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| After dinner we acted out the Nativity story. This year Sophie was Mary, Abe was Joseph (his beard was drawn on with yellow face paint), Helen was the angel, Gibson was a wise man. Brandan narrated the story and Brandan and Becky were innkeepers, shepherds and wise men. We all sang. |
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| We added a musical portion to our evening this year. Helen and Abe both started music lessons this year so they played music on the violin and the ukelele. Sophie and Brandan played songs on the piano. Not to be left out, Gibson played "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" on drums. We ended the evening by getting ready for bed and piling up pillows and blankets so we could all sleep next to the Christmas tree. |
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| Brandan surprised Becky with a walnut footstool. Brandan inlaid the stool with hundreds of precisely shaped ingots which completely cover 5 sides of the stool. Hopefully, the photo gives you some idea of the design. The footstool has wonderful texture and heft. |
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| Abe finished his 3-D soccer ball puzzle before breakfast on Christmas morning. We thought it would take a little longer than that. |
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| Once again Sophie asked for, and received, a wedge of blue cheese for Christmas. Here she is spreading blue cheese on her waffles Christmas morning. She says it's a delicious combination. |
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| Packaging is still a great toy. The kids spent hours cutting up boxes and wrappings to make mazes for their tiny robotic bugs to navigate. |
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| For our final photo, we can't resist posting a picture of Sophie and Helen in their delightfully old-fashioned nightgowns. Matching, too. |
3 comments:
It looks like a fantastic day. I love how you all have a part in the Christmas story. I would bet that "Twinkle twinkle little star" sounds wonderful on the drums. Love the night gowns. Blue Cheese on waffles?? And it is good?? This post makes me smile. Bill took vacation as well, only his is for the days after Christmas this year. It is nice.
Fun Christmas traditions. Sophie's culinary combination, the blue cheese on her waffle, is very interesting. I also love the kids creativity with the mazes made out of boxes. Sounds like you all had a very merry Christmas.
So fun to read about your holiday adventures. I love to hear of the traditions that you've established, especially the enacting of the Christmas story (complete with music) and sleeping all together next to the Christmas tree. I'm always amazed by what Brandan creates - what a beautiful footstool (I never really imagined I'd be using beautiful and footstool in the same sentence). :) Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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