Other December Highlights~

Josiah got his prizes from the Tommahawk Trot!  He got a backpack, water bottle, little frisbee, and a pillow pet!

Of course, baby lion is in the picture, too!

We've had a pretty warm December.  I took Mercy and Aedan out to the trains one day.  Usually, they are locked up, but on this particular day they were open!!  Yay!!  The kids love it and have a blast!

Aedan is inside the train on one of the high seats.

The missions classes went out to a nursing home one night and acted out the Christmas story.  Josiah and Aedan were shepherds. 

I went to Josiah's Christmas party at school.  (Yes, they can call it a "Christmas" party.  very weird.)

Josiah's class

Josiah (green shirt) playing with some other boys in the class.  All the boys got a truck and the girls got a pony:)

On December 18th we went to the Ryman for Andrew Peterson's Behold the Lamb of God.  It was fabulous as usual.       

Picture taken by Aedan Peterson (no lie~I've had LOTS of practice asking people to take pictures, and will ask just about anyone.)  Yes, we are color coordinated.  It was unplanned, but I think it needs to become a planned thing.  Yes, the two whole milk drinkers are matching and the skim milk drinkers are mataching.  haha!

We had our Intersect group over for dinner one night after a marshmellow roast at Cypress Creek.  Liam and Mercy climbed up on this chair and started reading together!  It was so cute!

We took a delayed birthday trip to Jumpville!  The kids had a blast, and I found credit that I had from years ago when I went to Wiggle Time so all the kids jumped for FREE!  Woot!

Go Josiah!

After Christmas, I went to Walmart and picked up a blue tree for the boys' room and a pink one for Mercy's room!  The boys were so excited, and so was I...I've been wanting trees like these for a couple years now!

 Josiah and I went on a date to see We Bought a Zoo.

We put our Proclamation ornaments on our little green tree.  The kids LOVE it!  They especially like putting the ornaments on, although they didn't enjoy taking turns with the ornaments.

 We hung up pictures!!  WOOT!

The kids and I made a gingerbread train over the break (and also zoo books).  They love the icing!

I caught Josiah reading to Mercy the other day!

Ryan made pigs in a blanket.  YUM!  Everyone likes them!