Technically this was not in December, but the start of the Christmas season, so we’ll start here! The girls got up super early with me and we went Black Friday Shopping for the first time all together. We had so much fun! I’m sure this will be a yearly tradition!

Decorating the tree with friends was fun. We ended up moving this tree to the Living Room and getting a white tree for this room.

The girls and I went to see their friend Faith who was playing Annie at the Seattle Musical Theater. She did a great job and it was so much fun to go see the play with friends from church!

The LWES Choir sang at MV Hometown Holidays.

Molly, Ashley, Sofia and I had fun walking around before the choir sang.

Christmas Tree selfie

Miracle on 34th Street – The girls and I were so happy to be part of this community play in the new High School Performing Arts Center. Sage was an elf and Molly, Ashley and I helped out behind the scenes.

Friends who came to see Sage! 🙂

The elves were asked by the Rotary Cluib to help with the annual “Shop with a Cop” event.

Such a cute elf!

Sage enjoyed hanging out with the other elves!

Molly, Ashley and I went to Snowflake Lane one evening. It was cold, but so much fun!

It was a parade this year, so there were many more places to stand and watch! Yay!!

AWANA theme night, “All Wrapped Up!”

Molly’s choir at school sang again…this time at Bellevue Square.

Our annual Christmas in Seattle Trip

Swimming at the hotel pool

Tom was on the phone with an advice nurse and ended up at Urgent Care that night because of a Kidney Stone. 🙁 We walked around while he was on the phone and took a few pictures.

Gingerbread houses

The Fairmont Olympic Hotel – We just love how it’s decorated at Christmas!

In the entrance to the hotel was an amazing gingerbread house that you could walk through!

The Teddy Bear Suite

This year, we went up to the observatory at the top of the Columbia Tower! Not all of us loved it…but I thought the view was amazing!

We decorated sugar cookies as a family.

I loved how our home was decorated for Christmas this year! I really enjoyed having a tree in the main living room!

The front room was beautiful with the white tree!

Sage bought a big tree for her room. It was beautiful!

Molly and Ashley put up 3 trees and lights underneath the loft bed.

The snow on Christmas Eve and Christmas was beautiful!

Our neighbor down the street got some great action shots of the girls and the neighbors playing in the snow on Christmas!

Inner tubes for the lake don’t work that well for snow, but they tried it after our 1 tobaggon cracked.

Molly’s successful trip down the hill in a trash bag!

What a great gift on Christmas! Thanks God for the beautiful snow!

Love their faces!

So many kids!!

Ashley – such an amazing picture of her!!