Christmas Activities

We had a lot of Christmas fun before we left for Washington.  Here are some pictures.

Grandma and Grandpa came over one night and we all decorated gingerbread houses.  We also gave Grandpa a brand-new toy record player to replace the one we broke while staying with them.  He looks so happy.

Anna and Matthew joined some of the kids from church and sang Christmas carols at a local convalescent home.

Steve and I visited San Francisco city hall for Google's Christmas party.  It was a long drive there and back, but we had fun swing dancing and eating fancy macaroni & cheese.  We also tried our very first oysters.

O, Christmas Tree! O, Christmas Tree!

Well, we got our tree.  Because we are going to my mom & dad's for Christmas, we decided to go with a little tree from Home Depot.  There was a big pile of $20 3-ft trees.  Anna looked at one and then looked at another and she loved them both.  When we told her she had to pick one, she broke down crying.  "I just can't decide!  I love them both.  If we choose one, we'll have to leave this one here by itself!"  We consoled her by telling her that some other family would of course pick this tree to take home and love.  She then asked if she could take a picture with it so that she could remember it always.

We got the tree home and decorated it with all of our homemade decorations.  It's actually very cute.  I think we'll have to have a little kid tree from now on.