Festivities

We've had a weekend filled with Christmas festivities. Yesterday, our church hosted  Christmas Boulevard - complete with a sledding hill for the kids...Becky was a little unsure of the whole sledding concept....

....Katie, however, did not share her trepidation! 

There was a HUGE Christmas tree with equally huge ornaments that they found fascinating

and small trees and displays that were beautiful. It definitely invoked the feeling of Christmas - even if it was 70 degrees out! 

They had a live nativity show complete with the barnyard animals 

and no Christmas celebration would be complete with firepits and s'mores! 

Our friends Ben & Sam and their kids Nicholas (aka Superman) and Genevieve joined us which made it super special! 

Sam and I - we realized that we are always behind the camera and never get to be in pictures together, so we took this opportunity. We are so blessed to have this family as our friends - it's hard as a "mature" mom to find moms that I get along with that have kids the same age. Moms the same age have much older kids, and a lot of moms with kids Becky & Katie's age are plain & simple too young mentally for me! Sam is one of the young ones that is real and down to earth and "gets it"! She's the kind of person that everyone wants to be friends with - so I'm glad I make the cut! 

Today we took the girls to LA to see "The Rockette"s Holiday Show." They got all dressed up in their Christmas finery - and had a GREAT time at the show! We went with Sam;s family - and had a great time. We took no pictures actually at the show...too much going on with FAR too many people around! 

(these aren't great pictures - but they were the only ones we got of the kids!)

The kids are cooked - we've had a big week with Nana's Christmas party, Disneyland, John & Destiney leaving, Christmas Boulevard and the Rockettes - and we've still got 13 days till Christmas!