The bottom branches of our Christmas tree all look similar to the one below...4 or 5 ornaments piled onto one branch, thanks to Ella's decorating skills. I love it :).
Ready for a night out of dinner, Christmas shopping, and Snowflake Lane with mom and dad...
Snowflake Lane in Bellevue:
A trip to Molbaks with Grandma and Grandpa. Love Molbaks at Christmas!
Making Ella's first gingerbread house...
Cody and I got to go on a fabulous Christmas date night - dinner at Daniel's followed by seeing Elf at the 5th Avenue - LOVED it...
...while Ella got to spend the evening with Grandma and Grandpa.
One of my favorite memories this Christmas season is when we put Ella down for bed, then went in a little later and got her up to surprise her with a night out having hot chocolate and looking at Christmas lights in jammies! Ready for Christmas light gazing...
A stop at Starbucks for hot chocolate...
We found this great house in Issaquah that coordinates their lights to music that you can hear on a radio station.
Ella joined me for my class party at school. She was in heaven with all the attention from my 1st graders and was hamming it up every time somebody took a picture with a big "cheeeeeese!"
We made a chilly trip to the Cougar Mountain Zoo with Alison and Nathan for their annual Reindeer Festival. The kids got to see all of Santa's reindeer and feed them apples...
Helping mommy make sugar cookies. Ella definitely ate more frosting than made it on her cookies...
We went into Seattle with my whole family for dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory (a tradition my family grew up doing), a ride on the carousel, and a viewing of the incredible gingerbread houses at the Sheraton hotel...
Love the picture below :). I'm not sure who enjoyed the carousel ride more: Auntie Emily, Grandpa, or Ella?
Our worn out girl by the end of the night...
We found this great house in Issaquah that coordinates their lights to music that you can hear on a radio station.
We went to WildLights at the Woodland Park Zoo with the Magnussons. It was the first year the zoo put it on and it was a bit underwhelming. Still fun to enjoy a festive night out with friends though!
Merry Christmas, Bethany. I love when I forget to check your blog for a long time, and when I come to it, there are lots of posts.
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweet life you have with Cody and your little girl. And now another one on the way. The wonderful thing about the second kid is that no matter if they are a boy or a girl, you're in luck. If you have another little girl - sisters! What could be better? Just imagine their future together, whispering secrets and braiding eachother's hair, matching outfits and slumber parties... But then if you have a little boy, it's a whole new wonderful experience of parenting a son. Father son outings and little boy overalls and wrestling and I've never had a daughter, so I can't say for certain, but it seems to me there is something special about the way a little boy loves his mom.