On Sat Dec 15th, we celebrated Chanukah with Ali's Dad and Sue. Ali's brother, Andrew, and sister-in-law, Treva, were also there. And of course the kids, Kendra and Twila, had loads of fun with Sarah and Nicholas. The kids played with their new toys; the big hit was probably a wack-a-mole game that even Nicholas got into.
On Sun Dec 16th, we hosted a Cookie Party at our house. Ali was baking cookies just about all day. We had plenty of helpers to decorate all the sugar cookies; Sarah loaded hers up with plenty of icing and sprinkles. We also decorated big gingerbread cookies, and made a gingerbread manger scene (once we figured out which cookie was Mary).
On Tue Dec 18th, David's parents came down for a service for David's cousin John at the Maryland State House; read more about it here.
On Wed Dec 19th, Sarah and the kids from her school sang in the NASA Goddard Holiday Concert. Mom-Mom and Poppy came onto the center to see and listen to her sing.
On Sun Dec 23rd, we went to Grandma's church to listen to her sing in the choir. After that, we went to Andrew and Treva's to open Christmas presents and have dinner.
On Mon Dec 24th, we went to the children's vigil Mass at St. Pius with the Olsens. The bishop was there, but Sarah really liked the Christmas angels and shepherds during the pageant.
This morning at 1:00am, Nicholas must have heard some reindeer on the roof, because he woke up and wouldn't go back to sleep for a half-hour. Sarah slept right through it, and even let us sleep until 7:15am! Sarah had so much fun either opening her gifts or handing them out to others; Nicholas just sat there and played with a candy cane. We're having Grandma and Papa Bob and the Olsens over for dinner later today.
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