December So Far

We did all the typical stuff so far this month.  The girls made a gingerbread house.  I took Emery and Luke to the Reindeer Festival at the Cougar Mountain Zoo where Emery was thrilled to see Santa and Luke ignored him.  Avery and Harper had their first piano recital of which there are no pictures.  Harper had a first grade winter concert of which there are no pictures.  Emery and Luke had their preschool Christmas program.  They were both way into singing their songs and were very animated. Daryl and I were surprised by their performances.  We hadn't ever seen them so in to something.

  We went to the Museum of Flight with Adam, Angie, Logan, Ben, DeAnna, and Brad where we saw Santa again.  Logan wouldn't get near Santa and was crying vigorously, but Luke sat on Santa's lap with merely a look of indifference this time.  Then we went to our Christmas party at church and brought along Christie, Ben, and Zander.  Zander and Luke played a lot at the party and earlier at our house together.  They are becoming good friends. 

Emery at the Cougar Mountain Zoo.

Harper, Avery, and Emery working on the gingerbread house.

Behold! The gingerbread house.

Luke with his preschool class.

Emery with her preschool class.

Harper, Luke, Emery, and Avery with Santa and Mrs. Claus.  Harper had a letter for Santa.

Avery with Santa at our church Christmas party.

Luke playing at the museum of flight.

Emery and Luke in a helicopter at the museum of flight.

Having fun with photo props at our church Christmas party.

More fun with props.

Zander and Luke not getting into trouble together at our church Christmas party.

Harper's gingerbread house presented on construction paper with water colors and crayons.

Harper's reindeer.

Harper's Santa going down the chimney.

Harper's gingerbread girl.

Harper's gingerbread house she made at school with her second grade buddy.

Harper felt we needed a greater sense of decorum at dinner and created this list of table manner rules.
We are to chew with our mouths closed, don't use our fingers, be gracious, and do not touch other people's food.

Here's the Christmas tree.