The Nutcracker

Lisa & I went to see the Nutcracker with our friends Rebecca and Abby. This is the second year that we have seen the ballet. I liked this year's performance better. It was really beautiful!

While we were gone, Matt & Stanley went to the children's hospital and brought some toys to donate as gifts. Then they got slushies at Sonic.

We got dressed up.

This is as fancy as we get.

Waiting for the show to start

Eating cookies during intermission

Photo by a five-year-old

Sweet friends

Fun times at the Nutcracker!

Birthday Party

Lisa went to her friend's birthday party at a nail salon. She picked blue as her nail polish color.

The girls with their polish

So fancy!

Getting her nails filed

The party getting frozen yogurt with fancy nails

Gymnastics

Lisa has joined gymnastics again. She's had 2 lessons so far. She loves practicing handstands and cartwheels!

Practicing the balance beam

Video of Lisa on the bars:

Other fun things we've been doing...

Field Trip

Stan's class went to see a play, so he got all dressed up. He was looking sharp!

Hiking
We went for a beautiful hike, and we found a wooly bear caterpillar.

Fuzzy wooly bear

Beautiful day

Library
We love our library! Both kids read to Cooper the dog, and then we read books by the fireplace.

Stanley reading

Lisa reading

Fun with Cooper

Cozy fireplace

Holiday happenings!

So many fun ways to celebrate the season! The kids each have advent calendars (Star Wars Lego for Stan & horse farm Playmobil for Lisa), we've put up and decorated the tree, we went to Hometown Holidays to see the Camas tree lighting, and the kids visited with Santa. And there's still more fun coming this month!

Decorating our tree

Tree Decorators

Hometown Holidays

Having fun in the crowds

In front of the tree

Bundled-up kids

Hot chocolate

Video of the tree lighting and fireworks:

Santa

Santa!

Lisa asked for cat toys.

Meeting with the big guy

Stan asked for YuGiOh cards.