December fun

December was full of fun for us. We were really busy, which made me feel a little overwhelemed, but we love Christmas time so much, and try to enjoy it as much as possible.

Sydney did a little Nativity for Joy School at a local retirement home, which was really sweet:

 Sydney was Mary, which she loved! She went around all month pointing out pictures of Mary and saying"there I am!"

                                               Sydney got her first haircut, they cut off about 8 inches of beautiful curls(which i saved), and it has saved so much time and tears in the morning when combing her hair. She wasn't very happy at first, but loved the experience, especially getting her hair washed. The lady doing it was really nice, but really scary looking with tons of tattoos all over her. We might skip that place next time.

 We did the gingerbread house thing as usual, and decided to have our friends, the Park family, over to make it even more fun. And I sent it home with them, too! Thanks guys! ;)

 And we did some more gingerbread house making after, thanks to all the work of my good friend Mel. She put together something like 20 houses for a bunch of the little kids from church to decorate at her house. We had so much fun:

Lots of hot cocoa drinking goes on during the cooler months at our house, and of course that menas lots of whipped cream and marshmallows, too:

 My cookie baking always gets way out of hand. We start out saying we will just bring some to our neighbors, but then that turned into 30 plates of cookies somehow. I baked over 300 cookies in one evening(this wasn't all of them, there were more on the counter!):

 We did another nativity program for the Joy school parents, Sydney got to be the center of attention again, too:

 Mema and Aunt Kathryn got to come and watch:

 We went out to dinner and looked at Christmas lights with our friends the Bourne's(Chase, Syd and Rory are obviously excited):

And at the request of Rory we celebrated Hannukah. We talked about it, and I made potato latkes with apple sauce and sour cream. They were really yummy!