Pre-Christmas Festivities

The two weeks After Thanksgiving, leading up to Robert's Christmas break were packed full of Christmas partying. Calvin and I just had a blast packing in so much Joy and Merry-ness before Christmas! 

Calvin built his first snow man, and his favorite part was taking off the nose and eating the carrot. Silly boy. He definitely came to learn to LOVE the snow. 

One Saturday afternoon Calvin and I met our friends to ride the Santa Express down in Carson City at the Nevada Railroad museum. It was absolutely darling and Calvin loved meeting Santa, and REALLY loved getting a "nany cane" from "Sana!".

 Later that day we went down to our local park to go to a Brass Christmas ensemble. It was SO much fun and Calvin wouldn't stop dancing. He loves music and it was perfect.

 Alisa and I hosted a Christmas Story time (that I ended up not being able to go to due to a sick little Calvin), and I was in charge of the sugar cookie station. While the kids were sleeping I finished cutting out and baking the cookies. They woke up while Alisa and I were chatting and they got eerily quiet. I noticed the silence after about 5 minutes and we walked into the two yay hoos hitting the gold mine of cookies. They are good.

 There were a few snow days before break and Calvin and I got to run snow day errands together.

 Our local library had a big North Pole day when Santa came to visit. They had coloring and games and a little story time set up in one of the rooms while you waited to see Santa. It was darling and perfect. Calvin was a little bit suspicious of Santa and I didn't want to set a screaming child on Santa's lap; he decided that getting the candy cane from Santa was more than enough bonding.

Alisa and I also hosted a fun Winter Girls night gift swap, which I'll post about later!