Our Happily Ever After: Summer in December

December 2015 has been wonderful. The warm weather has allowed us to enjoy the outdoors longer than normal. It is not the first green Christmas we have celebrated in New England, but people seem to forget all those other years and are completely amazed by the weather. I will admit, while we don't always have snow before Christmas it usually is a bit colder.

Earlier in the month our church put on a nativity program for the community. There was a live nativity outside as well as beautiful nativities, artwork, films, and more inside. Amelia loved the live animals and the music. There were activities for Children and for families and festive refreshments. It is truly an event not to be missed.

This was our nativity that we shared for the program.

Celebrating the true meaning of Christmas.

After the nativity the 3 of us went bowling together. This was Amelia's first time. She loved the little bowling shoes, the different colored balls, and the lights and music. She was Daddy's cheerleader on his turns, but could careless about Mommy's turn. On her own turn she picked whatever color ball she wanted and we would put it on a dinosaur's head for her and aim it. Then she would push the ball and it would roll down the dinosaur's back and it would continue down the lane and hit the pins. She did really well too!

The following weekend we were very busy. Aaron had his 2 day work Christmas Party at the Mohegan Sun Casino. It said it was a lot of fun. He especially liked bowling and the food. Then we threw the Christmas Party at our church. We had a nice Christmas program and the Spirit was felt so it was a success. Then on Sunday we went home to Montgomery after church to see Aunty Erin who was visiting from CA and decorate for Christmas. Our December plans kept changing. We had expected to be house sitting the last 2 weeks of the month so we decided to forgo the Christmas Tree/Decorations at our house since we wouldn't be home to enjoy them. To compensate we crashed Nana and Grandpy's House in Montgomery and decorated their tree. In the end we didn't end up house sitting but it seemed silly to get a tree 1 week before Christmas so we just enjoyed the decorated trees everywhere we went (and they were everywhere).

Helping Nana Decorate her Tree

Aunty Erin, Amelia, and Mommy

Grandpy did the top

And for some reason there is a second tree, but it is Amelia sized so it made us happy

Meme, Nana, and Amelia decorating the little tree

After decorating 2 trees everyone was pretty tired.

Cuddling with Nana in an attempt to delay going home. "Itsy Bitsy Spider"

Love and Giggles

Other December Morsels:

Tents, Amelia loves them. We make them frequently and they vary greatly.

She spends lots of time in her tents coloring, reading, watching shows, playing games, napping, and eating.

Amelia loves to color and loves stickers. She prefers markers. And goes through easily 20 pieces of paper a day.

Playscapes in the mall make errands fun. She even played with other kids :)

Made a "nest" in the dirty laundry basket and hung out there for an hour.

She loves swimming. On this particular day she fell on the brick surrounding the pool and skinned her knee, so no swimming actually happened, but before the injury she was so excited.