we went to a cool place called crippsmas place where the whole neighborhood gets together and lights up a big stretch of houses. they take donations and send them to several worthy charities. it was fun and put the kids to sleep

so originally the  card said to paint mom and dad’s faces… but not only did we not have time on the 16th but mia wasn’t so jazzed about painting our faces. so i painted hers here is what we were doing on the 16th:

mia’s winter concert

well, some of our advent days got pushed around… so 14 & 15 were actually done on the 15th!

everyone pretty much felt like Siena looks here, so we skipped christmas in the park this year! mia even went to bed extra early, surprisingly enough.

the classics were difficult to find this day (uhhh, bad planning, mom!), so some old old christmas cartoons did the trick!

marco put the lights up on our house and our yearly reindeer came out to hang out on our lawn.

salt dough ornaments are messy and oh not so easy to make handprints out of them, no matter how easy pinterest says it is!