One of our favorite family Christmas traditions is going to the Festival of Lights. One of our local cities decorates a park with all kinds of lights and people can drive through and see them. They have all kinds of scenes and each year it is fun to see the different ways they set them up and the new things they have added.
One of the favorite parts for the kids is getting out of their car seats and sitting up front with us to see the lights. You drive through the park very slowly and the kids can see so much more if they are able to get up and see out. Don't let this picture fool you. Leah was having a great time, she just didn't want to smile for the picture. Corbin was more than happy to grin with his chocolate covered smile!
In the middle of December, Leah had her Christmas dance recital. The girls' costumes didn't get ordered in time, so all of the girls got to wear pajamas as their costume. Leah's class did a dance to a song called "Christmas Sarajevo." It sounded like a supped up version of "Carol of the Bells." She did a great job!! And I thought her class did the best in the entire "little kids" program. She is dancing with Kylie and Millie again this year, but I didn't get a picture of the three of them together. I wish I would have.
Leah had a lot of fans come to see her dance. Here she is with some of them. One of her good friends, McKay, came to see her dance. She was really excited about that.
We weren't sure if Grandma Leslie would be able to make it, but she did and she brought Jackson along too.
Leah and Corbin were both especially excited that Grandpa Tucker came. (Oh, and Grandma Tucker was there too.)
Another fun tradition is going to a Gingerbread Decorating Party at our neighbors' house. Leah always loves decorating her gingerbread cookie.
Corbin's favorite part was picking off all the decorations and eating them.
After decorating her cookie, Leah insisted that her dad would want a cookie so she volunteered to decorate it for him. She did it all on her own. Not too shabby!
Leah's preschool class had a "Polar Express" Christmas party. So all the kids got to come to school in their pajamas. I went to help with the Christmas party that day. It was really fun to see Leah in her classroom setting. It also gave me an even greater appreciation for her teacher. She is so patient and kind with the kids. She had a great party planned for them and the kids seemed to have a great time. They ended the day with a Christmas program where they performed all the Christmas songs they had been practicing over the past several weeks.
The Millers invited us to join in their family Christmas party. They had invited Santa to come visit with the kids. After the kids all had a chance to sit on his lap, he read them a story about how the birth of Christ was the real reason for the Christmas season. Our kids refused to sit on Santa's lap, but they were willing to accept his candy cane and listen to his story though.
After the story was over, we were able to convince them to take a family picture with Santa as long as they didn't have to get too close to him. Leah also wanted to get a picture of her and Kylie with Santa.
I'm sure we did a lot of other fun Christmas things, but this is all I have pictures of and all I can remember right now. December is such a fun month with so many great things to do to celebrate!
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