Whew what an evening

Every year our church does a community event of displaying over 600 nativity statues. It is usually the first weekend in December and they do a fabulous job. Stephen and I had assignments to "ambassador" the event on Friday afternoon. I also accepted an assignment to sing some Christmas Songs during my shift as an ambassador. This went off without a hitch and it was a great experience. We had about 1/2 of the people come through that were just from the community and not members of our faith which was a great thing.

But after we accepted these assignments we realized that it was also the same evening as Stephen's work wide family Christmas party. Oops! But we can do both right?

Well, I don't know if we'll do that again, we hit traffic and got there in time to run through just a few things but our kids did very well considering the COLD and the LATE HOUR! Here were some of our favorite things:

Decorating sugar cookies

Taking a ride on a train, we caught the last ride so they went extra long---and it was so super cold but they didn't notice! They sat on the last bench and a costumed Frosty the Snowman rode behind them. Sam was so excited to tell me that a snowman sat behind them on the train and waved his hand to say hi to them. Just the other day they asked me if Frosty and Santa were always at Dad's work. Nope just there special for the party, I replied.
Taking a family photo with the Harley Motorcycles, KP looks a little too comfortable on the bike doesn't she?

We also took a photo with Santa, we haven't seen it ye though, we'll post it when we do. My kids are a little overwhlemed by the man in the red furry suit (even though the guy wearing the costume work's on Stephen's team). We also took home greeting cards to decorate, decorated paper tree ornaments and dog tags with stickers. We do it every year so here's to another family tradition--horray!!