December is usually a really busy month for us. This year was a bit more low key as we spent a lot of it sick. The first week and a half was us stuck with Hand Foot Mouth Disease and not able to do anything. Then we spent the next week and a half trying to do a bunch of different holiday events but not over exerting ourselves. We did however, decorate the house a bit and did a couple crafts at home. Edward even wrote out his own wish list this year! And of course, we went and did our annual Santa photo.
We did Swansons nursery. We were suppose to go with friends, but things came up and they couldn’t make it. We still had fun and I got some good shots of the boys.
We also took some friends down to Bellevue and watched Snowflake Lane. It was a lot of fun because we were able to play in the play area a bit before the show and Daddy was able to walk over after work and meet up with us. The kids loved all the excitement and were just awestruck the whole show.
Grammy came into town just before Christmas and we had our annual Polar Express Night. We only had a few friends over as I wasn’t fully up to having a bunch of people over and getting a big party planned. I think it went great though! The next day, we decorated the gingerbread houses that we had been making. Darrell was super proud of the fact he made them all from scratch by himself. Well… with the help of the boys.
Since we were sick through most of Christmas, we went and did our downtown holiday events on New Years Eve. We took the link down and we wandered through the gingerbread village, played on some playgrounds, and then took the monorail to Seattle Center and did some ice skating and looking at the train setup they have there. It was a nice day and we love going to see all the flashiness downtown occasionally. Edward wasn’t super confident on the ice skates and it was really busy this time, so he didn’t do much skating. Oh well!
