December + Christmas

We attended a Force hockey game a couple of weeks ago.

I went back home for my good childhood friend's dad's funeral and was going through Carrington anyway, so Clara got to hang out with Grandpa and Grandma for the afternoon.

Clara had made a new toy for Ninja.

Clara's school had a real live elf on the shelf, Sprinkle!

I got to see her in person one day when I dropped Clara off for school. I took a few extra days off ahead of everyone else which was amazing. I walked over to pick Clara up from school a couple of days.

Adria came over to play.

She and I took in the Winter Solstice walk at a park up north in Moorhead. It was really fun.

On Friday we went to see Home Free again with our friends Alex and Kaily.

On Saturday afternoon we headed to Tessa's to celebrate Christmas.

Tessa and I did the Rosa's run and ran into the Grinch while we were there.

We had a fun evening visiting together.

I didn't get any photos, but we played some of Tessa's fun new games too.

We did the 10:00 am Christmas eve church service on Sunday morning. There were only a few others there outside of our Weckerly/Froem family so it felt extra special and intimate.

The cousins did a wonderful job playing piano, saxophone and singing.

Clara and Oliver got to light the candles.

We had a relaxing afternoon before we got ready for everyone else to arrive for Christmas dinner and gifts.

Twinsies!

We headed back home late Christmas eve to wake up at home on Christmas morning.

I got up with Clara at about 7:30 to watch her open her stocking and then went back to bed for a couple more hours until I barely got up in time to make it to our Christmas Day church service.

The rest of us opened our stockings after we got home from church.

Then we made brunch.

We spent the afternoon reading, playing toys and games and relaxing.

We gave Clara 'Little Women' for Christmas and are reading it to each other.

Clara baked and decorated a birthday cake for Jesus.

We had a nice dinner and then exchanged our gifts.

Clara made a couple of ornaments for us at school. This was one of them.

We've been busy checking activities off our bucket list this week and now are getting ready to celebrate Christmas over the weekend with Dana's side.

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