Visiting Santa 2016

Benji was proactive this year about asking to see Santa, so I signed him up for the Junior League's Cookies with Santa event. Santa read the kids "Twas the Night Before Christmas," then they took some pictures and decorated cookies:

He offered one of his cookies to Mommy

Trimming the Tree 2016

He was so excited for tree trimming, he wore the hat all afternoon and kept bursting into song

He is also obsessed with the mistletoe

Our traditional tree trimming snack-dinner

Surveying the ornaments

Posing with the finished tree

Abby was tall enough this year to put on the tree topper herself (on the bottom step of the step stool)

Picking out the Tree

We tried out the market at Grelen Farm this year, and it was a beautiful setting to buy a tree:

Mike Super

We saw this nationally known magician at The Paramount last week (he was the winner of Phenomenon on NBC and a finalist on America's Got Talent).  It was also the theater's 85th anniversary, so as a bonus, we got cake:

Fun with the Kishores

Abby and Mira painting

Benji and Mira making fairy houses, an activity Mira dubbed "not boring"

Kevin playing with Kiran

A Charlie Brown Christmas

A fun live version of the Christmas special, and we got to meet the cast after the show:

Gingerbread Houses

Another Thanksgiving Weekend tradition, decorating gingerbread with the Dukes:

Abby's finished house

And Benji's almost-finished product. He still had to add the bbq and gumball machine