Gingerbread House Making

We had a lot of fun while everyone was visiting over Christmas.  It was pretty cold all week, so we spent most of the time just hanging out and enjoying each others company.  One day Alice and I decorated a gingerbread house.

 Alice took the decorating very seriously.

 The finished product.

Alice had to check on her gingerbread house first thing the next morning to make sure that no one had eaten it overnight.

Florian pretending to eat the gingerbread house (later on he, Alex, and Hector ate it all).

Christmas 2015

We hope that everyone had a very merry Christmas this year.

We had a very fun and packed house this year.  Here are the kids on Christmas morning, eager to open their presents after waking up at 5:50 in the morning. 

Santa decided that the kids had enough pajamas, so they got Christmas bathrobes this year.

Alice with her new jaguar beanie.

Hector got a new pocket knife from the kids.

Louis got the Pokemon books that he'd been wanting.

Later on that day my parents, Alex and Florian all flew up to stay with us for the week.

Alex and Florian really liked playing with Alice's new Magformers.

Louis showing Grandpa his new Pokemon game.

Alex and Florian in their scarves.

Angie, Cody and Brook all came over too.

We had a packed house, but it was lots of fun seeing everyone together.

St. Luke's Christmas Pageant

Last Sunday was the St. Luke's children's Christmas Pageant.  Louis and Alice revisited their roles as a shepherd and an angel, respectively.

Alice found one of the extra Baby Jesuses. 

The angel chorus.

Alice singing to Louis.

It was a very cute pageant again this year.

Christmas Tree 2015

Here are some pictures from our trip to the Christmas tree farm this year.  It rained so much this December that we were beginning to wonder if we would ever get the chance to go get out tree.  Luckily there was a break in the weather, and we rushed out to the tree farm.

 Alice loved all the "baby" trees.

 She would pet almost everyone that she found.

 This looks like a good one.

 Hector started cutting the tree.

 Katherine pitched in.

 Alice supervised.

 The unfurling.

Unpacking the ornaments. The kids helped decorate a lot this year.

Thanksgiving 2015

We had a small gathering for Thanksgiving this year, Hector's sister and niece came over and I cooked us all a petite turkey dinner.

Check out that bird.

This was our first attempt at a family picture.

And our second.  Louis really wanted to get those bunny ears on his sister.

Hector (and his beard) carving the turkey.

Cheers everybody!

After dinner we played some rousing games of Racko.