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| We love this Christmas tradition of meeting the Christmas characters downtown. |
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| The tradition includes going to this fun soda shop. |
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| This year we went for Las Posados which was really neat. |
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| We followed Mary on Joseph on their search for somewhere to stay |
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| Then it ended with a live nativity and a bunch of Christmas songs. It was cool to be at a city event with so many people who believed in and celebrated Christ from many different faiths. |
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| I don't know why I have this pic but there's not many of me so here you go. |
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| Daniel and Hannah fixing the piano bench |
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| Hannah playing piano at the retirement center for a church activity. I was proud of her- she had a little trouble at the beginning but didn't give up and then did great. |
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| She loves Andrew's friend Luca and gave him her half birthday cake. :) |
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| Santa |
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| Our friends invited us over to do gingerbread houses and it was so fun! She even made them homemade! |
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| We got a (temporary) dog! We're dogsitting and its been over a month now that we've had him but I think he's going home next week. |
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| Hannah's dream. He sleeps on her bed every night. |
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| Eliza hurt her neck one night and couldn't move it. She found comfort from her snow globe from Grandma. |
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| Andrew is doing wrestling now and had to lose a pound before his match so Ethan volunteered to play basketball with him :) |
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| I didn't get picture but he did great. I think he won 2 of his 4 or 5 matches. |
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| Sometimes you need a picture of your baby sleeping. |
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| She had her first recital at a retirement center and did great! |
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| She did great too! |
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| They found these crowns and love them! |
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| Love it |
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| My preschool class went caroling to some of my neighbors |
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| So cute |
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| Hannah's half birthday cake didn't work out so she turned them into cake pops :). She gave half to her friend Olivia but we didn't get a picture. |
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| Christmas Eve sibling gift exchange |
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| Christmas Eve family kickball game |
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| Christmas Eve dinner with Aunt Kate and Uncle Rich. Daniel made a turkey dinner and it was delicious!! |
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| We read some books |
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| And acted out the nativity |
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| And sang songs together |
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| And watched some Christmas songs and videos- it was a perfect Christmas Eve filled with the Spirit. |
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| oops, sideways pic- note and treats for santa and reindeer |
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| Santa came! |
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| Christmas morning- still tired but excited to open his stocking |
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| I did good for the first couple rounds of gifts taking pics so we could show them to the givers and say thanks. Then I got distracted or something. Anyway the first round was the gifts from their cousin who had drawn their name. Eliza loved her pillow and journal from Riah! |
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| Andrew loved his rubix cube from Mason! |
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| Hannah loved her embroidery kit from Emily. |
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| And Ethan loved his lego set from Matthew! |
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| The next set was presents from GG and Papa. Along with the books Hannah got a bookshelf from them that hangs on the wall next to her bed. We are reading that book Wish together and we both love it! |
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| Andrew's treasures |
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| Eliza also got a bookshelf to go with her books. |
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| Ethan especially loved the Ninjago activity book because it came with lego figures. He's been having fun doing the activities too. |
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| Uncle Rich playing laser tag... |
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| ...with Andrew |
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| Hannah on her pogo stick |
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| Ethan has spent countless hours since Christmas putting lego sets together. |
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| A Christmas day game of Kuub |
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| Aunt Kate teaching Hannah to sew- she loves it! |
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| This doorway swingset has been so much fun!! |
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| Playing shuffle board at Aunt Marties house |
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| Parenting tip- when you want your kids to eat something healthy, knock on the door and pretend do be a waitress and ask them what fruits and vegetables they would like to order. It worked great! |
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| Eliza got this canopy thing for Christmas |
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| These lucky boys got to take a trip together to Texas to watch the Seahawk playoff game and stay with some good friends. |
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| They had a blast |
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| They drove by dude perfect headquarters on their way home which made Andrew happy |
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| Big cousin Caleb playing legos with Ethan :) |
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| Enjoying a Read-in. Can you find all four kids? |
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| Bike ride at the park |
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| I couldn't keep up with Ethan to get a picture, and only got this one of Ellie because she stopped to take a drink. |
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| Yay for a new cousin and her wonderful parents! We've loved getting pictures and are so excited to meet her! |
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| She was sad to take down the Christmas tree so we had to take a good-bye picture of her hugging it. Goodbye Christmas and 2018, you've been good! Welcome 2019!! I didn't get any pics of New Years but Ethan, Eliza, and I had a fun night at home while Daniel and the big kids had a fun night with some friends. |
