25 December 2012
We had a few Christmas celebrations this year. The girls really had a great time and enjoyed all of their presents. There were some very much desired ones…
and some that ended up being just plain fun.
The Longview pictures did not turn out very well, but that didn’t stop the cousins from having a good time together. It will just have to be in our memories rather than on print. My girls loved seeing their cousin Zayden and always love to see the twins. Zayden was able to come to stevens pass with us one day to try out skiing. I think he loved it. Maybe again next time he comes in winter! Merry Christmas all!
8 December 2012
Julia wanted to do ballet again, so we signed her up. Turns out there were only 4 classes to this session and we missed one due to Thanksgiving. Julia enjoyed it nonetheless and as usual there was a 10 minute performance the last day. They were all stinking cute!
Kayla’s gymnastic class (and several others) all were invited to perform at Winterfest at the Seattle Center. The performance was at the center house stage. It was quite exciting complete with music, lights and choreography. Kayla did great!
7 December 2012
This year I had the brilliant idea to make gingerbread houses from scratch. I found what looked like an easy recipe and waited until the girls got home from school to make them. It turns out it was not so easy and it took a loooong time to get the dough kneaded and ready for baking. After baking there was a lot of pieces breaking as the dough had been a bit dry and cracked. Then, never having done this before I didn’t know the icing was super runny. Apparently runny icing really glues it together. Well, we did not have an easy way to apply this runny icing and it dripped everywhere. 3 hours later I think they were done. I will admit the baked dough tasted great. Maybe next year I will either make gingerbread cookies with this recipe instead, or maybe look for a new recipe that is more easy to work with. The kids were most patient through it all and promptly ate their houses up.
Kayla picked out our tree this year at the school tree lot and Tim and the girls decorated it. They did great. So I got out our stockings and found the old german choir figures from my mother. (Thanks mom!) Julia wanted to put them out this year and helped me set them up.
The girls wanted to visit Santa this year. We found out he was going to be at a coffee shop near the school one evening, so we went to talk with him there. Julia brought her snow globe with her photo with Santa from last year for him to see. He enjoyed that very much. It was a short, quiet visit but he sang them a carol or two and they got to tell him their wishes.