The Most Wonderful Time of the Year? Is July. But December is great too.

Haha.  Here's all the Christmas-y Activities I took pictures of this December:

We went to see the lights at Temple Square with the MacKays!  Here are the boy cousins:

And a bunch of us looking at the Japanese nativity.  We got a pic of our family, but I apparently didn't get it off of Eric's phone, too bad.

Eric and I went to his LEI Christmas party dressed in a double Christmas sweater!  So funny, and we took 3rd place in the ugly sweater contest!

Gingerbread houses.  Maris had more patience this year and actually covered her house!  And then didn't really eat it haha.

Whitney's front side,

and back of the house

Owen's front

and back

Katelyn front (and a sleigh!)

and back, including a snowman.  Note to self: do this more than 2 days before Christmas or it will just be thrown away.

Christmas Eve we went out to dinner with Brad, Mary, Cleo and Vivi.  Grandpa got to sit at the fun table with the kids! haha

Then we acted out the Nativity on our own, which we hadn't done in a few years.

Emma was Mary and Maris was the Angel Gabriel.

The Angel came to Joseph too.

This was the best haha, "Mary" kept laying down in the middle of the journey to Bethlehem!  She must have been very tired and pregnant! 

Eric was the innkeeper and as usual, spiced things up.  He said there was no room at this inn,

and then quickly moved the ottoman over and used a different voice to be another innkeeper, so funny.

Mary had her baby, and instead of wrapping him and putting him in the manger, she wated to lay down right by him, so sweet.

Angels came to the shepherds (Whitney) and sang beautifully!

This is of Owen and Whitney busting up laughing when the shepherds came to the stable and Eric announced that he was the manger (trying to get Emma to hold still!)

Christmas night in the stable.

Kate the Wise Person journeyed from afar.

And Mary lost no time in grabbing for the awesome gifts!

I took these pics of the tree on Christmas Eve before I went to bed. I love the lights of Christmas!  Even though some of ours had gone out haha.

Also the Sunday before Christmas, I tried curling Emma's hair for the first time!  It was Adorable even if a bit old lady-ish!
She was not in a picture taking mood though

that face!!

But then Eric got a couple of smiles out of her, with his awesome portrait mode on his phone, yay!

The kids in Christmas attire; Emma refused to put down the baby.

And sweetie Maris wanted to take a picture by her big purple present. 

SO so cute.