December was definitely an interesting month starting off with Nathan competing for the 3rd year in a row with his school Robotics team in the First Lego League Robotics competition. 

Somehow with everything else going on we were still able to fit in taking the kids to see Beauty & the Beast at Village Theatre.  Jessi was sooo excited to stay after the show and get autographs from the actors and actresses.

We also took them to the show 7 Brides for 7 Brothers at the 5th Ave Theatre which was a very fun show and the kids really enjoyed it!

Hannukkah parties were abundant this year with one with our friends the Puterman's, one with our friends the Tarlowe's and the one at the synagogue (re-schedued of course due to the snow storms)!

Just before the kids were supposed to start winter break our area got hit with several snow storms in a row, cancelling school for the last 3 days before holiday break for the kids.  The first day off we've declared a"Threat of snow day" since we didn't even get a flake here but some areas in the Seattle Metro area got up to 10" of snow.  The next day after whining all morning of still not getting any snow, we finally started seeing some snow but only got about 1-2".  Again other areas got slammed while we waited patiently until finally…yeahhhh, we got snow!!  Nathan measured almost 6" out on the patio furniture.  The kids had a blast, sledding, building a snow fort and running around playing with friends.   Why is it that when it's 70 and sunny I can't get the kids out of the house but when it's snowy and cold and blowy I can't get them to come back in from the cold! :)

See next entry for December vacation 2008