December has been fun fun fun! We brought hot chocolate, snacks and Chloe down to Tempe Town Lake for the Festival of Lights boat parade. It was pretty neat although Ellie enjoyed dancing around with Chloe a lot more than she enjoyed watching the boats go by. Patrick liked crawling all over the hill and the airplanes that flew right over us. The night ended with some pretty "firecracks".
Zoolights was very fun this year because Patrick was amazed at everything and Ellie had been waiting to see the dancing lights for over a month.
We attempted to visit the Bass Pro Shop Santa but the wait was over 3 hours so we just walked around and enjoyed the winter wonderland.
We did lots of shopping and running around outside enjoying Christmas decorations and the holiday spirit everywhere. These pictures are from Tempe Marketplace. You were all dancing on the stage until you got kicked off by the security guards. At least you had some fun before you got booted!
We had a Little Explorers Christmas celebration to end our first semester. I am so happy that we started our little preschool group. It is so much fun and something Ellie truly loves each week.
We had a nice advent countdown with the princess advent calendar that mom mom sent. Ellie, you did good at eating only one chocolate everyday even though you tried to convince us some days that you still needed your chocolate. We didn't do too hot with the one book everyday until Christmas...I think all 30 books were opened by December 10th. Maybe we will try it again next year now that Patrick loves books.
We had a fun sleepover with the girls. Grandma even stayed the night! We made gingerbread houses and snuggled on the couch and watched Elf. Auntie Angie came over early the next morning join in on the girl time. We have done this for the past few years and Chloe promised that no matter how old and busy she got she would always make time for a sleepover before Christmas to make gingerbread houses.
And...of course, no Christmas season would be complete without making Coffee Cakes with Grandma.
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