Pre-Christmas Festivities

It is time to play a little catch-up with the blog, so here we go!  This year our Christmas season was fun, busy, and filled with joy.  Here is how we spent the month of December:

Kate was a "rag doll" in her choir performance.

Lily Jayne, Ava and Kate backstage

Simone, Kate and Lexie getting all warmed up.

Kate in full make-up. (Yikes!)

Decorating the tree

Snuggle time

Luke and his class prepare for his big number at International Night

The four of us enjoyed the Nutcracker Spectacular at WHS.

School's out and the weather is perfect.  Let's head to the Austin Zoo!

Trail of Lights with our friends

More snuggle time

The big guy!

Spending some quality time together

San Antonio Riverwalk with the Tilsons

And dinner on the Riverwalk with the Swaneys and the Kaases.

Mom and Aunt Amy on the Riverwalk

A trip to the San Antonio Zoo.  Their favorite part?  The Cheetahs.

More Pre-Christmas festivities

We stumbled upon many more pictures from our joyful December:

Finding the perfect Christmas tree

We got a new weiner dog Santa Claus for the front yard.  Awesome.

Nutcracker re-enactment

Nutcracker spectacular

A ride in the Mustang.

Luke onstage at International Night.  His songs included: "This Land is your Land" and "Feliz Navidad".  

Family selfie under the Zilker tree

Trail of Lights

Austin Zoo. These goats are crazy.

Austin Zoo train

Surprise lunch date at school

Kate on stage in her choir performance singing "Rag Doll Rock".

All the little rag dolls

Another Mustang ride.  Luke likes this kinda stuff.

San Antonio Marketplace.  We bought bird whistles.

Waiting for the River taxi.

Headed to the Alamo

The Alamo!  We didn't go in for the tour this time, and Kate was kinda mad about that.

River taxi nonsense.

Hotel gyms are sooooooo much fun.

More San Antonio Zoo fun.....

This may very well the best moment of Kate's life thus far.  She is obsessed with everything Cheetah.  I have NEVER seen her so into anything.  She has read every Cheetah book in her school's library as well as in our public library.  If you want to know anything about Cheetahs, Kate is your girl.

The carakel is the meanest cat EVER.

A little stop at the Gristmill in Gruene for lunch on our way home from San Antonio.

Listening to a few songs at Gruene Hall.

Home from San Antonio and exhausted.

Mom and Dad on the River taxi.  What is wrong with Dad?

Rocky and Snoopy Townsend

This weekend we adopted two new members of the family.  Apparently we like to do things in twos around here  So, everyone meet Rocky and Snoopy!