December Little Things

Wowzers. Here we are in 2019. Day 24 of 2019 (the first three weeks of the year are always the craziest for me). Part of me feels like I have been in 2019 since September (since that is when we start working on 2019 financial plans at work) and part of me feels like how did we get here so quickly? Either way, 2018 was a growth year for our family. We traveled like crazy, made new friends and fell in love like with Chengdu ;). The air quality is bad right now, so ask me in a month and I might be back to loving it! Anyways, here is a look of what we were up to in December.

On December 2nd, we flew back from Thailand.

Then, Snowflake arrived at our house the following Monday.

Ev's Christmas program outfit came and we had one pretty happy Christmas tree on our hands.

And one girl who was less than pleased with her holiday concert costume ;).

We colored at Starbucks.

Visited our neighborhood Christmas tree.

And went to a princess birthday party!

Followed by a trampoline playdate...

where the moms left the girls with the dads and went and had fake eyelashes put on!

I went back to the trampoline park to pick up this gang and we found out they added a cotton candy machine much to the girls delight.

Emma wrote Nonni a convincing note ;). I mean, how could Nonni possibly say no to that!

The girls asked for a haircut (well Everly asked and Emma obliged).

Such a happy girl and so proud of her new cut.

We saw the Christmas tree at night.

The next day was concert day!! Emma turned her attitude around about the costume :) and they were so excited for Wes and I come watch them perform!

When we arrived, Emma's two besties were already there.

And we found a Christmas tree to take this cute picture!

Emma's class played the xylophone!

We had an eventful two weeks in New Zealand and Australia for Christmas and then it was back to Chengdu. The girls couldn't wait to see what Santa had brought them! I am not going to have a giant Christmas post this year because we kept it really low key. Snowflake hid Santa's presents and sent the girls on a scavenger hunt to look for them!

It was a magical, but super jet lagged morning :).

Growing crystals.

And for the last picture of 2018, we went to a kid friendly NYE party that Emma's besties family hosted and these two were so happy to be reunited!

Not to sound cheesy, but 2018 was a great year for us! We are pumped about 2019.