Simpsons in Seattle

When it's rain rain rain all the time, it's exhausting thinking of new fun places for the girls to let out their energy. Good thing these girls LOVE dumplings and noodles and have tons of fun at the library. Saturday afternoon plans - done! Gimme some food, mama! oooh, new flap book at the Library! Reading time

Every night during December, the city of Bellevue hosts a fun little event called 'snowflake lane' where they play Christmas music and dance in the streets...and of course snow! Evie loved the dancers and Nora enjoyed the snowflakes in the air swirling around her.

I have fond memories of going to watch the Nutcracker at Christmas time and have been looking forward to when I can take my girls to watch with me. After Evie sat through Frozen on Ice so well, we figured she's old enough to sit through a ballet. We invited our pal Blakely and her mom Lauren to go with us, and we made it a girls trip. The little tykes did amazingly well! We got there early enough to grab booster seats for the two of them, and also splurged a bit on nicer seats to make sure they could see the dancers. They asked some questions throughout (like, what are those rats?) but for the most part watched quietly. Towards the end, Evie fell asleep but not before enthralled by the Sugar Plum Fairy and her sparkly dress.  I can't wait to do it again next year!  Pretending to be a ballerina. Palsy walsy. These two are the cutest! Mommy daughter picture Waiting for the show to start!

This tired pup will fall asleep anywhere, even at Costco! I'm getting sleeeeeepy.... Her head kept bonking forward and hitting the handlebar so I had to give her a makeshift pillow.

Good speller!

We've been living in the PNW for (gasp!) 8 years now and have never gone to cut down our own Christmas tree. Since this past weekend had beautiful, dry, sunny (but cold) weather, we decided to finally try it out and headed over to Trinity Tree Farm.  If you've never gone to cut your own tree, let me tell you - it is surprisingly hard to agree on the perfect tree! We walked up and down the aisles, searching for the one that's just the right height (taller than Daddy!), not too fat but not too thin, isn't crooked, and doesn't have many bald spots. You'd think it would be easy but it's not. That's okay though, it was a beautiful day and we had fun stomping around among the trees.  All bundled up! See anything you like, Nora? We found "our" tree! Daddy's strong enough to cut down the tree! And, here's the final product! Pretty nice, huh? It was a fun day but I think we might just stick to Home Depot next year!

We had a wonderful Turkey Day! I'll post more on other shenanigans that weekend, but Thanksgiving itself was an uneventful, nice day. We were lucky enough to have Grammie and Grandpa spend the holiday with us which means guaranteed yummy food and lots of giggling with the girls. I didn't get a good picture of the Turkey dinner itself but here's some pics from the day: Nora's selfie Grammie's homemade apple pie! Doesn't it look deeeeelish? This was the first time I've ever seen Evie fall asleep in a random spot! Scott's homemade hot buttered rum clears your sinus quick.