12/4 We bought our Christmas tree! After checking out the $350-$750 flocked trees at the local tree lot, we headed down to Lowe’s to buy this beauty. It just isn’t Christmas without the smell of pine!

12/5 We attended the Colleyville tree lighting. They had all sorts of carnival games for the kids to play, crafts to make, cookies to decorate, a balloon artist…

… and Mr and Mrs Clause.

12/6 Breakfast with Santa at the Lion’s Club. Our former home teacher gave us a ticket to the event and it was a lot of fun. I didn’t get any photos though!

12/6 River Trails Ward Christmas Party. This was our final farewell to all our Ward friends. The Ward members wrote little messages to us on Jenga blocks — it will be a great memento of our time in that ward!

12/12 Colleyville Ward Christmas Party. The theme was the Polar Express and they went all out! It was fun to meet more Ward members and get to know them better.

Raine telling Santa that she wants an inventing kit.

Carter telling Santa that he wants a Tasmanian Tiger! (You know, the ones that went extinct back in the 1950’s.) These kids have seen too many episodes of Wild Kratts!

12/14 The Cosby family invited us to their home to re-enact the nativity and eat cookies with them and the Burgoyne family. Both of these families have a 6-year-old girl, they both also have a 4-year-old (one has a boy, the other has a girl), we’ve become fast friends!