A Few Days Before Christmas

Lots of Christmas goings on... O Tannenbaum... Sand Tarts... German Pancakes... Christmas Movies ("A Christmas Story Christmas" and "I Believe in Santa")... Legos... Puzzles... Santa's Workshop... Gingerbread Houses... Merry Christmas Adam (you know, just before Christmas Eve 😄)! We also did Family Dinner tonight with the topic of The Wise Men (much of which came from Jamie's recent "Torah Talks" lesson, here). And it turned out that blowing a fuse by running two microwave ovens at once was somewhat fortuitous in that we discovered an unrelated little water leak near a hot water heater. Not freezing temperature-related either. It's gotten down to -13F two nights in a row.

Someone was being Grinchy...

Sand Tarts!

Back in the Workshop. Learning to make ribbon twisty!

German pancakes - fam fave!

Add a few drops of lemon juice for a touch of heaven.

Helped a lot with crowd control between events.

A number of kids got into Lego kits.
Matteo built this guitar!

Merry Christmas Adam morning!

Colorado Nutcracker

A handful of Compound folks went to see The Colorado Nutcracker today and ran into a few theater friends from Elevate Productions (Colorado Ballet Society).

Christmas Miscellany

Christmas miscellany...

That trip was a hoot!

Merry Christmas from Nipomo!

Our Suggestion Board for Family Dinner topics.

Sam's Christmas Day

We exchanged gifts with Sam today as he flies out tomorrow on a multi-leg trip to Germany.

Bubble Bread and everything!

Cool Christmas Card

Santa's Workshop

Sam's Christmas Eve

It's our Christmas Eve for Sam's Christmas Day at the Compound, so go with it... 

Our DCC Elementary Principal

I lost track of who made these. They were really good!

Look who belted up!

Holiday Book Club, and more...

Yesterday, we took Sam to Edelweiss Restaurant, good prep for being in Germany for the next few years! Earlier this morning we made a trip to Monument where we scored books and puzzles and stopped in at the retirement sale of the quilting/sewing store in Monument. Jamie tagged along to Lynn's book club meeting in the afternoon where he led the discussion about this month's book, Happiness is a Serious Problem by Dennis Prager.

Edelweiss Restaurant...

Rouladen - Lynn's fave in German cuisine.

All the kids are enjoying their Advent Calendars, but
Lexi takes the cake in this department!

Some new puzzles (trip to Covered Treasurers)

Jamie's colors!

Undisclosed meeting location.

Nothing but goodies!

Not at all sure what's going on here...