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Fancy nails. (12/1/16)
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Peter-Man and Sir Serious Chicken.
Except, sometimes Wesley is a kitty. (12/3/16)
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Sir Serious Chicken isn't sure that
she has wings. (12/3/16)
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Construction of the gingerbread
village begins. (12/4/16)
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Elaine's work is precise and
focused. (12/4/16)
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Wesley's work is distracted by all
the candy. (12/4/16)
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He needed some help finishing his
house up. (12/4/16)
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The completed village and its
architects. (12/4/16)
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Too busy to come home from
preschool. (12/5/16)
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A beautiful tangram rabbit.
(12/5/16)
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The premier of Upstart Crow's The Happy Elf.
(12/9/16)
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In
addition to playing a toy elf in Santa's Workshop, Elaine is also a
citizen of Bluesville, hard at work in the What Factory.
(12/9/16)
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The marimba band performs at the
Holiday Market. (12/10/16)
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On a walk through downtown, Wesley
discovers a tiny village. (12/11/16)
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While
out Christmas shoppping, we ran into Santa. Wesley didn't
know
what he wanted for Christmas, but Santa asked if he liked racecars;
Wesley agreed that he did. (12/11/16)
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After a full weekend of
performances, we rushed Elaine straight from The Happy Elf
to her Harmony Roadhouse recital. She opened the recital by
playing "Jingle Bell Rock" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" on the
piano; then she sang "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and
"Winter Wonderland" accompanied by Ursula. (12/11/16)
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Wesley insists that his name starts
with an I. (12/18/16)
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While
our house was without power and a working stove, we escaped to Grandma
Janet's house, where we made gingerbread cookies. (12/18/16)
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Wesley celebrates a cookie well
made. (12/18/16)
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Sticky, sticky cookie dough.
(12/18/16)
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Elaine prayed for snow, and her
daddy answered her prayers. (12/22/16)
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As soon as we got to Salt Creek
Sno-Park, Wesley started pelting me with snowballs. (12/22/16)
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The snow is more than knee deep.
(12/22/16)
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Elaine finds a tree buried under the
snow. (12/22/16)
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Exploring among the trees.
(12/22/16)
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If the snow won't come to us, we'll
come to the snow. (12/22/16)
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Time for sledding!
(12/22/16)
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"Yukon Ho!" (12/22/16)
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