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| Christmas celebrations are in full swing around here. Our Christmas spirit got a big boost from decorating the Christmas tree Monday night. Helen put the star on top of the tree. |
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| We're partial to homemade gifts around here. While we were visiting for Thanksgiving, Grandma Linda showed us the ruffly scarves she knits. Sofi is making a scarf for a friend now. She tried knitting it for a couple of days, then switched to crocheting which she finds a little easier. |
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| Abe and Helen helped Brandan hang lights outside on Wednesday. Becky thinks our outside display is tasteful. The kids think our lights are boring. They'd like more color, more flashing and maybe an inflatable snowman or two. |
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| Thursday was St. Nicholas Day, one of our favorite holidays. |
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| Abe was the first one downstairs and the first to dump the candy out of his shoe. He missed one chocolate, though, and only found it when he was trying to put his shoes on to go to school. |
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| Abe's guitar teacher, Steve, has quite a collection of stringed instruments and can play all of them. He was headed to a performance of traditional Chinese music after Abe's lesson this week, so he demonstrated the Chinese guitar for us. This instrument is called a pee-paw. We do not know how to spell it. |
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| Abe played Christmas carols at the mall on Saturday. He played a duet of "O Christmas Tree" with his teacher, Teena, and then played "Deck the Halls" and "Jolly Old St. Nicholas." Later that night, we had the missionaries for dinner and one of them wowed our kids with his dramatic style of piano playing. He inspired Abe to work harder. |
2 comments:
I am very much behind. It is fun to catch up on a few months.
I liked yours and Gibson's mustaches and beard.
Your Utah, Idaho, Thanksgiving loop looked fun, filled with good ol' family time.
I am impressed that Abe is so dedicated to his musical instruments.
I like your St. Nicholas day shoe tradition. So fun.
Your family is great.
You have some fun holiday traditions. I bet your house looks beautiful with the lights. This year, Aaron didn't even want to hang them outside - so he hung them inside instead.
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