The weekend went by too quickly! It is strange how that happens. We have been able to keep warm, surprisingly since we have no heater since 4 p.m on Thursday. Our gas fireplace does a nice job of heating the main part of the house and we have some radiant heaters to help in the bedrooms. We hope to get the part we need Monday to get our heater working again. Oh how nice that will be. We have been enjoying the ambiance of the fire in our living room and the girls like to sit and watch it in the morning as we huddle under blankets on the coach waiting for the room to warm up.

This weekend was filled with small Christmas activities. My parents and I took the girls to the Riordan Mansion for a craft and story time they put on. Audrey really enjoyed making a pine cone ornament that was covered with glitter and she had to shake a coffee can filled with glitter to make it. She thought that was the best part. Sabrina loved listening to all the stories and the carolers. They each met Santa and received a yummy candy cane. I forgot my camera but Nana took some photos, so I will share those later. It was a very cold and windy day though. The girls clung to us while outside afraid of blowing away. Later we did get some beautiful white snow which makes up for the wind.

We finally decorated the Christmas tree with Papa and what a relaxing time that is with 3 anxious little girls. The girls placed each ornament with care on the tree and then after they went to sleep Mama rearranged each ornament carefully to make the tree even out and move the fragile ones to the top. I am sure tree decorating will get easier but never as cute as it is now.

Today we went to a some close friends of my families home for dinner and to walk through the luminaries decorated in their neighborhood. It is always busy to take the girls to eat at a home that is "grandma type" and has inside dogs. My girls really do not prefer to have dogs the size of them in there face and sniffing them. So I get to carry Audrey and sometimes Sage to keep them high above the dogs and out of trouble. It was a very enjoyable dinner of homemade enchiladas, rice and beans made by my mother. We bundled up the kids and walked up the street to see the LIVE nativity scene in front of someones home. Audrey sang all the way back after hearing the christmas music at the nativity. Very precious. It was quite a chilly night so the walk was short and we loaded the van and to see the rest of the lights from the warmth of our van.

Now I am tired and not sure why I have not gone to bed yet? Oh yeah because I decided to write this. It is addicting. I am sure I will be thankful I wrote down some of these memories because I notice I forget too many these days.