Our Christmas Season

Christmas time as been going by quickly!  We started out making cards.  Mary made all our Christmas cards this year and I added a family newsletter.  It is so fun that she likes to do paper crafts with me. 

We put the tree up after Thanksgiving and then went to see Disney's new holiday movie, Moana.  It was a lot of fun.

It is always so nostalgic putting on the tree ornaments and remembering where they came from.  This shot really pulled on my heart strings.  This is Mary's first Christmas and then a picture from this summer.  My how 10 years go by so quickly and now she is half grown!

Little Mackie got in the Christmas spirit too!

We had a lot of fun making paper snow flakes to put in the window.  We have not had snow yet but Mary keeps hoping it will snow before Christmas Day.

We did outdoor lights this year.  It was so fun to do some outdoor decorating.

Mary is holding a Christmas gift basket for her piano teacher.  She is such a talented lady and she is so good with kids.  We just love her!

My Christmas cactus is in it's full glory right now.  It is so big that I am going to have to prune it back after it blooms or Rich won't be able to pick it up anymore and bring it into the house for the winter.

Mary had her annual Christmas piano recital.  In February she will have taken piano lessons for 3 years.  She really enjoys it and I love being able to play with her.  I have included a video of her performance.  She did really well for getting up in front of a 100 people and play on a piano she was not familiar with.  She loves to perform and looks forward to the rectals.

 

Here is the link to the video: https://youtu.be/aek1OhxFmYM