Saturday, December 31, 2022

Christmas Season

We prepared for Christmas by getting our tree decked out in ornaments and lights.

Mr. Elf made his return to make mischief for the month of December.


Sarah's dance team dressed up for class.
And Sarah's tutu for her ballet solo arrived!

Sarah continued to make yummy cupcakes for my clinic. These were for the holiday potluck and are pistachio cupcakes with strawberry and vanilla buttercream on top. Yum!

It got really cold, so when we sent the kids out to shovel the snow, we had to do timed check ins so they wouldn't get frostbite!



Our family tradition, baby block ornaments!


Christmas Eve
We have dinner at Cheesecake Factory after Christmas Eve Mass.

Matching Christmas jammies!
The squish little brother hug
The kids each got a Christmas ornament on Christmas Eve. 
Sarah's is Alice in Wonderland to go with the theme for her dance studio's Production number this year.
Trevor's reflects his love of Pirates of the Caribbean.
Stitch is Austin's spirit animal and Austin got his driver's license this Christmas break, so Stitch driving a car/spaceship was perfect for him this year.

We are blessed.


Santa brings the kids each a board game.
Our chef Sarah is very excited about her air fryer!
The Black Pearl in a bottle!
And Austin got what is basically beer pong from his grandmother! Hahaha!


Sarah showed off her pointe shoes putting her ballet ornament on the tree!

Sarah made a yummy peanut butter pie!
Uncle Brian loved it so much, he was hugging his slice packaged up to bring home!

The cousin gingerbread house competition was ON!

To close out the year, Sarah had a holiday gift exchange and sledding party with her dance team.
Trevor had another local fencing tournament, this time across the Twin Cities to the Twin Cities Fencing Club gym.
Here he is ahead 14-4 in a bout in the bracket.
Here is him making the winning touch. The pic is blurry, but his foil is bent as he hits the other player and the red light on his side lit up, indicating an on target touch.

That's it for 2022!  On to 2023!

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