Long awaited Christmas Choir video

Due to a) lack of knowledge of video editing 2) a drive going bad over Christmas and iii) a general lack of time... it took over a month to get this video up. I regret touting it in the Christmas card, but hopefully Lea's gleeful twirls and Dan's ho ho hoing will be worth the wait.

Lea's Choir debut (edited down to 5 minutes from the original 34!)



Here's a video of Lea practicing the ballerina doll part. Grandma JoAnn took the video and did her beautiful hair when she was here for a visit back in November.

We had a wonderful Christmas. Here's a couple photos and a quick rundown of our December:

Lea shows her list to Santa

Family photo when we went to visit Santa

Lea in her own personal wagon at the downtown parade. We pulled Lea in the wagon and took the city train down town.

Lea a the parade

Aunt Sherry, mom, Uncle Scumfy and Lea at the parade

mommy, daddy & Lea at the parade

Mr. Potato Head at the parade

Lea shows off her gingerbread house that she made at school. Dan volunteered that day at school to help.

the Kindergarden gingerbread house

Our cardboard nativity. We made all our characters and wrote nice things that Lea did on pieces of yellow paper to make Jesus' bed soft with "hay"
Note the wise men in the back bearing "gifts." The angel backdrop came from girl scouts. My sheep are cotton on sponge legs. I don't know why Joseph & Mary have sponges on their heads, but Lea insisted they needed them. I guess that was the style back in Jerusalem.

Mommy and Lea make chocolate chip cookies. Lea has more fun than it looks like here.

Lea delivers presents to Grampy to open on Christmas eve.

Our little elf gets a few presents herself.

Dan made a mudroom coat rack for my mom. (I sewed the cushion and designed the thing). We had it wrapped in a sheet and no none knew what it was. We kept calling it the hippopotamus we got for Grandma. "Gee, Dan do you think needs something to eat? Does it get enough air?"

Lea leaves a cookie for Santa and carrots for the reindeer. We had to leave a lot of carrots because there are a lot of reindeers.

Grandma, Mommy and Lea got matching nightgowns!

Christmas day brought grandpa Dan and Aunt Teresa.

New Year's Eve we had a fire out front with hot chocolate, hot tea and roasted marshmallows. Then we played lots of Mexican Train Dominos and had sparkly cider at about 9pm as we counted down and sent Lea to bed. A lovely way to ring in the new year.