December is always a busy month for us, but this year seemed to be busier than ever before. It was a good busy. It was filled with classes, parties with a purpose, packages, adoption stuff, anniversaries, birthdays, school, Christmas plays, baking, and more.
One of the best looks ever while opening a gift from a package! This was Lauren's favorite movie and we must have left it in the States last year. She was so surprised and excited!
Here are the kids in the Christmas play. They did such a good job! Regan was obviously the angel and Benjamin and Lauren were shepherds.
Katherine was a wise man.
The kids did a song with motions as part of the performance. Lauren had a solo and did fantastic.
Here are some of the other cuties that performed songs (or just looked cute on stage) ;)
Cutest performers ever
We celebrated Regan's eleventh birthday!
This has been one of the best tasting cakes yet. I really liked this rainbow cake! Too bad it didn't last longer than one night. It was fun to make!
Party time!! :)
Regan had a wonderful party! I was so glad to see so many of her friends come and celebrate with her!
Regan with all her party going friends :) Love that they all have Elsa and Anna crowns on!
Lauren made her big sister the happiest girl ever! She has been wanting skates to skate with her siblings for awhile. We have no reason not to buy her any except that she has big feet and we haven't been able to find her size. My friend drove me to a German athletic store and they had her size! She has already gotten a lot of use out of them.
Jonathan and I opened all of our gifts on one day. The little girls had fun distributing the gifts. Jonathan got this winter scarf from the kids.
Santa came to visit and brought Benjamin the helicopter that he has been wanting. He's getting pretty good at it.
Santa also left a couple gifts for Hudson in a bag under the tree. The kids got to open it and put his things in his room/on his bed/on his bookshelf.
The younger two both got jackets and scooters.
Charlie got a mouse toy....which was completely destroyed by the next day. Katherine informed me that Santa left the price tag on it! oops :)
We played a game at one of the Christmas parties for some of our college students. Somehow, my kids ended up the Christmas trees on each of the teams. Benjamin's team won the prize :)
We did find some time to celebrate our anniversary! Ayi watched the kids for us while we went to Starbucks and split a blueberry cheesecake. A Perfect Evening!
So, this did not have anything to do with Christmas, but had to make the blog. It reminds me of some of Benjamin's Hot Wheel cars. I didn't know they actually made cars that looked like that :) Jonathan says...for the record...it's a Porsche.
Snazzy guys about to sing at the Christmas performance.
So, I took this off of the local version of Facebook. The caption under it said...Meimei (Lauren) told this friend of ours that "even if you didn't make up, you don't look so pretty, you are still my friend!" Haha.
My angel and her friend after the program
Benjamin, the cat, and the dog reading a book...hmmm, how long can this last?
Stockings are ready
Christmas morning 2014
I got these sweet gifts all on the same day. So much fun.
ALL of the kids made this cake together for their daddy.
Happy Birthday, Jonathan!!
