What a great December!

Wow, it has been almost a month since the last entry! What a great december we had. We stayed busy, even with the snow. It has been so much more manageable than last year, when there were those crazy blizzards every couple weeks. We have had snow, but lots of nice days too.

Earlier in December we got to see the Festival of Lights in louisville, went to see santa and had a sleepover with my cousin Tia. We both had our school parties on the last day of school on the 14th, and then I got to spend the night at Tia's house while zac had mom and dad to himself.

With school out, we have been playing in the snow, sledding a few times, and we went skiing for the first time ever. That was a challenge for mom and dad - I did great, but could only go one speed - FAST. Dad was cracking up laughing watching mom run down the mountain after me, yelling "fall over izzie, fall OVER to the SIDE!". I would stand on my skiis for a little, and then get going too fast to stand up so then i would sit on the back of the skiis and use them as sled and go down FAST. It was fun. Zac had a harder time- he was good at controlling himself down the hill, but got exhausted after two runs - ended up having a full on tantrum at the top of the hill, and all mom and dad could do was watch him flip out. It is funny now.

We celebrated the winter solstice, santa came and left presents for us that morning, and then that night we got to see the zoolights (the zoo puts up a ton of holiday lights and we go there at night) - pretty appropriate to celebrate light on the darkest day of the year! Now the days get longer!!!

The next days we had dinner at grandma's - her special fondue dinner. Mom and dad love it, but mom commented that it just isn't quite the same leisurely dinner they used to enjoy before children, with all the work she has to do to feed us as well as herself. We spent christmas eve at our friends house, making a great potluck dinner, and then christmas day was mellow - had planned to go for a hike, but it snowed alot - so we hung around the house, took a nap all together, and then went over to mom's brother riyan's house for a big family dinner and more cousin time.

It was a great holiday week - mom and dad had almost a whole week off together, and it was so fun!!! Mom slacked with the camera, so not a ton of pictures of this time....