Snow Day = Sand Tarts

A family tradition... In the meantime, Tracy and Jonathan are winging their way to Stanford for a Christmas visit with Dr. Grant. Click here for Mommy Savidge's recipe for Sand Tarts.

Yesterday, Tracy whipped up a batch of her Christmas
cookies for Lynn's book club.

Chiefs vs Broncos

Big football day. Papa and AJ attended to the grocery shopping. And there was some healthy stuff in there, too, thanks to Nana. The Chiefs won. Matt won his fantasy quarterfinal game, too. And Sandy waited patiently for the fallout.

Santa at the Fire Museum

Nana, Papa, Matteo, and the twins headed for a toy-raising event at the Lester Williams Fire Museum (south of downtown near Memorial Park where Matteo did his water camp last summer). Christmas Unlimited was the organization collecting the toys, since 1923! Pretty cool little fire house museum and did they pack a lot of activity into a small space for this event. We made some gingerbread houses, tried our skill at ball rolling and snowball tossing (styrofoam snow balls), and spinning the wheel. We checked out some fire and police gear on our way out, including the robot that shook Matteo's hand. All the photos are here.

You can't catch me...

I'm the ginger bread man. Actually, Lexi was a bear! Her preschool program was fantastic. 20 minutes total, a new song every 30 seconds, never a dull moment!

Pixel Cake

It took all the pixels in the camera to capture all the pixels on this birthday cake! Actually, Williams Sonoma calls this a Holiday Explosion Cake and the kit came in a paint can.

The innards come pouring out upon cutting.
Like a ticker tape parade...

Going to the Zoo, Zoo, Zoo

Which seemed a bit strange as it was a very busy day. Fina was going all over the place for dance rehearsals and performances, Hope and Home was having a Christmas party, the yard was full of people blowing breakers with some regularity. But yet, everyone was quite fixated on getting to the zoo. It was a very nice day, sunny and warm.

Turns out the motivating factor was to reveal Papa's new tile at the zoo! Very cool. And total surprise.

And we got quite a show just down from the elephants put on by a couple of roaring lions!

Look at the Hills!

While taking Fina to her Praise Dance Team performance, we thought the Air Force Academy buildings had been all lit up for Christmas. Turns out, there were no Christmas lights hung there. It was reflection of the sunrise on all the glass and metal. Stunning. Because Papa was driving we couldn't get a photo there, but when we got to the performance venue, this is what the hills looked like! The Praise Dance Team did a performance at a school early morning and then another after school at a senior home.