December

 I need to do a quick recap of the month of December, or I am sure one day it will be sad that I didn't...

 The girls danced at Christmas Tree Lane

 Allie decided that that Christmas lights worked great as microphones and entertained us with her musical talents while we hung the lights on the house.

 Freddy has could be found all over the house.  I loved hearing feet pounding up the stairs around the house on the hunt for him each morning.  Allie still asks to look for him on a daily basis.  She sure misses the trees, lights, and our neighbors blow-up Santa lawn decor that she had to wave good bye to each night before bed.
Madison played the saxophone in the 6th grade band concert.  All in all I think they did a great job considering that they had only learned to play their instruments a few months ago.

 We got to see Santa again at our annual ward party.  This was the first time he had to come visit our ward party so the kids were pretty excited!

We decorated our gingerbread house, as you can see Emma was excited about the candy part.  I got smart and hot glued the gingerbread together before we started decorating, it made the process so much easier, and faster.

 A few more pictures of Freddy, toilet papering our Chirstmas tree, and sledding down the railing.  Emma had me take a picture each day so that she can make a book about Freddy.

The girls also danced in the annual production of the Nutcracker.  Emma was a candy cane, and Madison was a snowflake, as well as one of the greeters.

 They did such a great job, it is so fun to see them enjoy dancing, most of the time...

 I think part of the reason they enjoy it so much is because they get to hang-out with some of their favorite people, their cousins.  Look at there beautiful girls, even in terrible lighting, they look amazing.