Other Fun December Memories

A few other things we did this month:

Watched our house make the "Best Lights of the Brazos Valley" list! Vic was so proud!

 Came full circle in life and took Everly to a birthday party for her friend, Luke, who is the son of Charley's best friend from A&M and whose wife, Amanda, is also in my MOPS group table.

 

Watched our Christmas decor also be a spot for My Little Ponies and play scenes from the manger, after Atticus and Grace played one afternoon. I know these will not always be our Christmas views, so I cherish them.

 

Played some Christmas Bingo more than once. 

Entertained ourselves with our baby Hazel! And see this video: https://youtu.be/emP0Z0fwWRI

And Everly spent lots of time pretending:  https://youtu.be/v1ZqA_i6MvU

We also went to Dani's house for a PJ / Cookie Decorating / Craft Making Christmas Party; Ellie, Christine, Ava, Maggie, Mia, Dani, Grace and Hailey.

 I love these two sweet girls!

 My PJ wearing girl after her party!

 We spent a lot of time on the floor with Hazel in front of the Christmas tree. She's the youngest baby we've had at Christmastime!

 Vic planned a night for us all to watch Home Alone, his very favorite Christmas Movie. This was my view, while nursing Hazel. OH my heart!

 And on this day, although I have no picture to show, our family was asked to light the Advent Candle and read at the beginning of the service on that Sunday. I was so proud because Atticus also read part of the reading. He did such a good job. And then I was even more proud, because Everly, who I had to hold in my arms because she could not be trusted to do her own thing up at the front of the church, did NOT succeed in blowing out the candle after it was lit (because in her life, candles are to be blown out for birthday cakes...so why not everywhere you go?)

 The cutest part was when she sat and read her Bible while we waited for the service to begin. Everly always goes to her nursery class and never in church during the service, so this was all new to her, but she was adamant about keeping that Bible open.

 Also, Vic and I had a shopping/date night and this sweet girl had to go with us. She looks pretty happy to be the star of our dinner show.

 We did some Christmas baking. 

And more baking. You can never have enough cookies.

 And we grinned and giggled a little while we chewed on Rudolph.

 And we had a Kindergarten Christmas Party at school!

 

And a 2nd grade party too!

 And then we walked out with Greer and Ellie to start Christmas break!!!

I will blog Christmas in Sanger and OG and CS separately, but here are the other things we did this month:

 Everly got a weeklong stomach bug starting on Christmas Eve. Poor girl!

 Atticus and Grace and Luc and Ellie had their very own garage sale. They did not sell a thing, despite riding bikes up and down the street all afternoon yelling "Garage Sale!". I love these kids!

 And, though I didn't get to it until after Christmas, I took some time for myself to decorate cute Christmas cookies!

 During our break, the kids spent a lot of time setting up and playing in their fort.

 And poor Everly continued a terrible stomach bug that lasted 6 long days of throwing up and diarrhea. Ironically, both Atticus and Grace had the 2 day version of this in the two weeks prior to Christmas.

 And Hazel practiced picking things up and throwing them off of the bumbo.

 And she spent lots of time chewing on her toes because that is just what you do at 4 months old.

 Slowly, we saw Everly get better and go back to her normal self..accessories included. 

 And then she was all better! Whew! It was a good December for the Seidel Six!