Christmastime is Here...Happiness and Cheer

We are pretty close to the DC Temple and they have great events and exhibits at the Visitor's Center. 

This night we went and checked out the crèche displays from all over the world. 

The Dutch display!

I liked this one from Germany.

Ivy said, "sing this!" 

Over 600,000 lights!

Christmas Eve dinner!

My lovely friend gave us a luminary kit which we tried to do on Christmas Eve. It would've been really beautiful but it was terribly windy that night. So we pretty much lit them and then blew them out to get out of the windy cold. Wa wa.

Christmas morning! We sleep with the door open and the first sound I woke up to that morning was Ivy's little voice that said, "Oh! That my bear?" She had a teddy bear in her stocking. 

She got a drum! And surprisingly, it's not been super annoying. 

So check out what I had to work with for Christmas Eve Christmas tree light pictures of these children:

Alright, except Cam is talking and Liesel is talking and mad. (?) Oh, and it's grainy.  

Oh. Cam. 

After this I kinda lost it. "Alright, forget it!" 

 ...yep. 

We got lots of games and played them a ton during the break. And what a nice Christmas break it was! Brian stayed home for pretty much all of it. On New Year's Day we got together with some friends for board games and had a blast.