Brandon's work had such a fun, cute work party complete with crafts, food, cookie decorating, and Santa!
Someone was there to even take some more professional pictures :).
We had our annual ugly sweater cookie contest.
We celebrated my Baba's birthday for the last time this month. She turned 87 and passed away about a week after this picture was taken. This will always be a special picture to me :).
Looked at Christmas lights.
Santa flew on our house for the first time.
Lots of baking was done for coworkers and friends.
The girls had some fun Christmas activities throughout the month at school.
We had fun with cousins!
Arts and crafts time with uncle Jeremy.
We had some downtime at home.
For my birthday, we all went to see the Nutcracker.
And Brandon took the day off for my birthday and we went to Sonoma for a quick morning pastry and some time away.
Oh, and we also bought a new car in between some of these dates :). This was Brandon's dream if he ever went to NorCal and certified, and he's almost there!
This holiday season we did a lot of advent activities and really tried to make this season memorable and special. Christmas light gazing, hot chocolate consuming, baking, decorating, nativity making, santa sand lots of fun with family and friends were enjoyed!
One weekend in December Lucy took home their preschool animal Simba to have adventures with and write about what we did!
We got to go to Bethlehem Village this year at our church.
Aubrey's Sunday school teacher made her a custom pillow case with her name embroidered on it! So cute and so thoughtful!
And the girls got new Christmas pjs!
We hope to start our own tradition of Christmas tree cookie and snowman cookie decorating!
Gingerbread men and women made an appearance at our house this year. I finally baked some!
We had an ugly sweater cookie decorating contest one evening.
Brandon won!
We even saw Santa that night!
We had some down time to just sit and enjoy some crafting and art work.
One afternoon we met Gracie (friend from when they were both in preschool!) and we had a late birthday celebration just the two of them. These two share the same birthday!
Here's Aubrey's writing about her Christmas break...
Christmas Eve arrived and our little Lucy spiked a fever and was pretty sick all through Christmas until the fever finally broke on Thursday. But with medicine she was usally a trooper even with her 104 fever when she had taken medicine. Poor girl. But she still had a smile and Christmas morning!
