Christmas Eve 2019

We had a very nice Christmas Eve, even though Lucy was sick! She came down with a fever the evening of 12/23 and it didn't break until Christmas night. She was a trooper, though, and celebrated with us through her fever. We had planned to go to the Christmas Eve service at our church, but had to stay home instead. Molly helped me set the table for dinner and did a fantastic job! She was so proud of herself and a great help!

Gumma and Poppy came over to spend the night with us and we had a nice dinner together, then we did our annual Christmas Eve tradition of reading the Christmas story out of the Bible by candlelight. We started this maybe 3-4 years ago and I love that we do it! We turn the lights off and Ross reads the story while we hold candles. After he reads the story we always sing Silent Night. It's always a nice time!

This year we added something to our Christmas Eve festivities that I'm sure will become a tradition, too: We sat around the piano and sang Christmas songs accompanied on the piano by Lucy. It was a lot of fun and she did a great job playing for us! You can watch here!

After our singing we got the girls ready for bed, opened a few presents, took our annual pictures in front of the tree, and got our stockings all ready for Santa! The girls put out cookies, a carrot, and some milk, and also put some reindeer food on the deck. It was a great Christmas Eve!

Where Is Everyone??!

The girls like to hide from Ross when he gets home from work so he will have to go find them. One day when I got home and they decided to hide from me, too. It was really hard to find them, as you can see from my video that you can watch here!

Molly's Dance Outfit

Last Monday afternoon I asked Molly to go upstairs and get ready for dance class. She came downstairs looking like this:

It might be kind of hard to see, but she just has on her panties and tights with her shirt. She doesn't have a leotard, shorts, or a skirt on over her tights like she should have on. It was so hard not to laugh at this! She was absolutely devastated when I told her she needed to go change and put on a leotard, skirt, or something to cover her tights. She saw Lucy in her leotard and pink shorts and wanted to match her, so thought this would work. Poor little thing!

Molly reluctantly picked out a skirt and this is how she ended up going to dance class that day: :)

Kansas City Christmas

We went to Kansas City the weekend before Christmas to celebrate with the Wisemans. We went up there on Friday, the 20th, which is Wanda's birthday, so got to have a birthday celebration with her, too. We had a fun time visiting and the girls and Wanda did their annual tradition of putting together a gingerbread house. They have been doing this for maybe four years now, and the girls really look forward to it. Wanda usually ends up doing probably about 90% of the work on the house each year, but I don't think she minds. :)  This gingerbread house was extra special this year because it came from Germany! Larry and Wanda bought it while on their trip to Germany over Thanksgiving.

Friday night we went shopping for some new tennis shoes for Lucy and had a yummy dinner at a Mexican restaurant. Matt, Jennifer, Tucker, and Haddie came over later that night to visit a little. It was nice to spend time with them and the girls all really seem to love playing together.

Saturday we took a trip to Sheel's to ride the ferris wheel (which we seem to do every year and everyone loves it) and had lunch at a sandwich shop there in the store. It was a great weather day so we decided to go to the zoo that afternoon! It was a perfect day for it, as it wasn't too cold and there was hardly anyone at the zoo! We had fun watching a seal show and then taking a train ride. All in all it was a great Kansas City Christmas.