Christmas Part Two

Starting Christmas celebrating early this year, meant we had lots of time for Christmas fun!

Christmas donuts from a friend!

9 month old birthday snuggles

Christmas carolling at a nursing home.
We loved this last year and this year too. We went with our homeschool group (plus a few church friends this year.) Besides the songs the group sang, K also played Silent Night on his recorder and C sang Little Drummer Boy. 

We went to a holiday library concert

Read lots of good Christmas books-this was one of my favorite new ones this year.

I always love our Jesse Tree- Thank you Janelle! 

A first this year was the Nutcracker. The girls and I really enjoyed it!

We went with two friends and their daughters

The girls all sat together the first half. The second half the girls were by their Mommies and C took a nice nap. She enjoyed what she saw. We loved that we knew most of the music because of the Tchaikovsky-discovers-america-audiobook. And both girls really loved reading the Nutcracker book after we went. 

We did lots of neighborhood caroling and cookie delivering. 

So much to smile about- especially at Christmas

Two boys went with us to big church

we were only planning to have one picnic in December but it was so nice out that we had an extra!

We rode our bikes to the neighborhood cookies with Santa party at the lot. Nice to have some cookies and chat with neighbors. The kids had fun playing. we did skip the hot chocolate since it was shorts weather!

Manna had a nice MU Serve team dinner- complete with bouncy house!

and snowman decorating