December Fun!

We took Grandma and Papa Mike to have breakfast with Santa and Shamu at Sea World on Saturday, December 8th. We had a good time eating and watching Shamu. They had also done a great job of decorating the park, and we spent the day there enjoying all of the winter activities.

The kids still weren't so sure about Santa, but I think it's OK to have me in the picture the first few years! No sense in scarring them for life.

The following weekend was our family Bake Day at the Godlewski household. It was a great time, as always. Lots of baking, decorating, and eating was involved. Also some good quality cousin-time!

Baby Toddler K was actually very much into the decorating this year. We were pretty impressed that she actually painted more cookies than she ate!

G was a good little decorator too- like always.

The next night we had another little baking session with Maymie- making pretzel treats (my fav) for people at school. G & K both loved helping- you should have seen how good Grady has gotten at unwrapping Rolos!

The next event was Grady's school holiday performance. It was adorable, of course, but Grady was definitely a bit nervous. I'm not so sure that he actually sang (except I think a bit duing Happy Birthday Jesus at the end) and unfortunately the cute hats that they were wearing blocked my view of his face during the whole performance, but overall, he did well and survived his first public performance!

Can you find Grady? Yeah, neither could I... maybe those hats weren't so cute after all.

Walking off the stage, looking thrilled.

Back in class!

We also went to the SD Zoo for "Jungle Bells," where they decorate with lights at night and have a bunch of special things for the holidays. It was really fun, really cold, and not really crowded- we had a blast!

 

And our little elf was all ready for Christmas!!!