We had a fun December getting ready for Christmas. The kids decorated our tree and enjoyed the traditional holiday movies on TV.

We got in the holiday spirit at the Jingle Bell Run, a race through the city where people dress up and sing holiday tunes while running through the tunnels. Amy’s work had a large group of people at the race and we went to breakfast afterwards.

This year we celebrated Christmas a few days earlier at home because we travelled on Christmas day to Grandma and Pappy’s house. Santa Clause brought the kids new bikes for Christmas and the weather was so nice we had a chance to try out the new bikes before we left town.

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December was filled with a lot of fun activities. The twins club hosted a kids concert with Caspar Babypants a local artist (formerly of the Presidents of the United States of America). The kids sat on our laps for the first 30 minutes of the concert then it was as if a switch turned and they got up and started dancing and had a blast. We also attended a few holiday parties where the kids enjoyed sweets they had never before tried such as hot cocoa. They are a big fan! We also joined Amy’s company participating in the Jingle Bell run which is a 5k race with lots of people dressed as Santa and Elves and lots of jingle bells.

We decided to pick out a Christmas tree even thought we were planning to spend the holiday in PA. We picked a super cute Charlie Brown tree and the kids had a blast decorating the tree. We celebrated Christmas a few days early since we were flying out Christmas Eve. Gabe insisted upon wearing Zara’s pink striped PJ to bed the night before we opened gifts – we figured it was just more material to show his future girlfriends. They had a blast opening gifts. Zara slowly and methodically tore the paper off of the gift while Gabe ripped each gift open as quickly as he could. Since we bought them many of the same gifts we tried to keep them opening at the same time but often Gabe was ready for the next gift while Zara was easily sidetracked playing with new toys or trying on clothes. By far their favorite new gifts were the pillows / pillowcases that Santa made for them.

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I organized the Seattle Jingle Bell team for Booz Allen. The Jingle Bell run is a really fun charity 5k running race. With over 10,000 participants, Seattle is the largest Jingle Bell run in the country. We had a team of about 15 people do the race. Each participant is given bells to attach to their shoes and people sing holiday songs along the race. It’s always a fun race and raises money for the Arthritis foundation.

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