On Sunday, December 23rd, we went with a drive with some friends to see some Christmas lights. Our first stop was a house in Brightwater that has Santa riding a roller coaster in their front yard. The kids love it! We were excited they set it up this year. Some years they take off... Watching Santa on his roller coaster:
We then drove to another neighborhood, Pecan Grove, to check out the Christmas decorations there. Even Ian got quite excited about checking out the lights.
Jace & Rachel in front of the most decked out house you'll ever see:
Christmas Eve was a very busy, fun day. I actually worked out that morning. My fun cycling instructor had us jamming out to Christmas music. Shortly after lunch we went ice skating. A family from our church rents out a local ice skating rink on Christmas Eve for 2 hours and invites everyone to come. This was the first year we made it and it was so much fun! Andy's work didn't do their usual family Christmas party, so it was nice to have this option. And it was much better than his work party in that all our friends were there! I was grateful to have the excuse of tending to Ian. So, I didn't bother getting skates. Andy was a good dad and took everyone out on the ice.
They had interesting skates. We've always really like the double blades. But these ones were weird. We just strapped the double blades on to the girls current shoes. It worked though, so that's all the mattered.
A video clip of the girls skating:
We got home around 4 pm and had some friends over for Christmas Eve dinner and cookie decorating. There's a few of us around here who don't have any family around and we've made a tradition of getting together on Christmas Eve. We take turns hosting and we took our turn this year. The kids love decorating cookies to leave for Santa.
Happy, smiley Ian on Christmas Eve:
By the time our friends left the kids were all tired enough to collapse for a good night's rest.
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