Because Katy’s birthday was the next day, she wanted to stay home for Easter this year. We had a simple egg hunt in the backyard with Sophie and Izzy. The kids had fun. I ate too much candy.
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Sam’s Birthdays
So far, Sam has had 2 birthdays (plus a small celebration at school). We went to Tahoe for his actual birthday (because he wanted to). While there we ate birthday dinner at McDonald’s then visited some of his friends that were at Northstar. Last night, we had the family birthday with the Springers. At some later date, we will have a party with his friends.
Margaret had an elaborately planned Scooby Doo birthday party. There were clues all over the house, in “ghost” balloons, a cryptogram, puzzles with secret writing on them. Katy and Olivia were the arch villains that would have gotten away with it had it not been for the meddling kids.
For Christmas, Susan got Elizabeth a raclette machine for Tahoe. Looks like wikipedia defines the term as a type of cheese (which it is). It is also a type of cooking where you heat the cheese at your table and eat it. Similar to fondue, but with a grill and not a pot of oil (or cheese). Turns out the kids really loved it. Make them cook their own meals for a change.
Just a few pictures from Christmas day.
We went to church this afternoon for the Christmas Eve children’s pageant. Sam didn’t want to dress up again this year but Katy and Margaret were angels. Click on the photo for more pictures.
Sam had his Christmas concert at school today. This one was better than most because they had someone playing the organ and you could actually hear the kids sing. I got a few pictures, Elizabeth got video of most of it.
Tonight was the tree trimming. We actually got the tree and put it up a few days ago, but because of the gingerbread party and the Christmas parade, it took us a while to get balls on it. This was Katy’s year to put on the star.
Today was the big gingerbread house decorating party. We (Elizabeth) had 20+ kids over for most of the afternoon. Of course we had the jumpy house up as well.
Today was the (50th) annual Christmas parade in Los Gatos. Margaret rode in a float with her Brownie troup. We all went down to watch her.