Back tracking to December:

 Because I plan on printing this blog in the future, I wanted to go back and touch on a few of the things we did in the last few months.  This is the December recap.

 Lucy is participating in the Miss Auburn Little Sisters program.  It is a great program where the girls get paired up with one of the contestants as their "little sister"  The little sisters get to learn a dance and perform on the night of the pageant and they get to walk out with their "Big Sister" for the evening wear portion of the pageant.  Lucy is super excited to get a dress and be on stage.  Here they are leading the crowd in songs at Auburn's Santa Parade.  

We spent a lot of our time and energy in the beginning of December working on a school project for Niko.  His honors english class was reading "A Christmas Carol" and for 100 pts. extra credit, he could build a house or other building for a Dicken's Village that would be displayed in the school.  Well, he really needed the extra credit so, we built a house.  Neither Billy or I know a whole lot about building houses so it was a learning adventure for all of us.  Niko did most of the cutting and painting himself and he really enjoyed it, so, for christmas we decided we would build him a work bench out in the garage so he can try making other things like shelves and stuff. 

Finally done! Yeah. 

 a look at our front door if you were only 2 inches tall.

 the back

We even added lights.

  Billy and I enjoyed a nice night out and went to his law firm Christmas party.  It was a lot of fun to dress up and have a night out with my hubby.  But, the best part was that I surprised him by booking a hotel room in downtown Seattle so we could stay the night and enjoy the next day shopping and just having fun.  It was a blast!

Finally, we had a great Christmas, we spent most of the break at my parents' house and I really enjoyed the down time.  We played more dominion (a card game) than I want to admit and we beat all the levels of "Angry Birds Seasons,"(the kids would come upstairs and my mom, dad, sister, and I would all be playing Angry Birds, they would just roll their eyes and laugh at us) and, we ate way more sweets and junk food than we should have.  Santa Clause managed to find us so the kids were happy.  

It was great!

Mr. Goody (an elf) brought the kids pajamas bottoms and white t-shirt with puff paints so they could make their own christmas shirts.

Noah with his ninja swords in a back pack.

Brooklyn all snuggled up in her Dora sleeping bag.

Niko counting the money that was in the piggy bank Santa brought him.

Lucy opening her cell phone, I think she was excited.