I have to admit, Thanksgiving and Christmas were a little hazy this year. Nina was born just two days before Thanksgiving. So we just stayed at home, and Jeff and Nana made us a great meal.
We tried to do some festive things since this was the first Christmas we spent in Arizona. We’ve always been grad students or in between jobs and had the time to go back to Mississippi. Not this year and definitely not with a one month old baby! We saw lots of Christmas lights and put up our Christmas tree. Clara loved the tree. She would sit in front of it and just talk about the ornaments– “Mom, will you look at the ornaments with me?” “this one is pretty and glittery” “Which one is your favorite?”
Making a present tower of course…
The Children’s Museum trucked in 20 tons of snow so we went for the day to check it out. It’s Phoenix and it was drizzly, so when we got there only an hour after the museum opened, there was just a small pile of snow in the parking lot that was overrun with kids. Clara was unimpressed. She loves the museum though, so the outing was still a hit.
We tried to sleep…
We went to Zoolights again…
We played outside under our orange tree in the frigid Phoenix winter temperatures…
We went to our church on Christmas Eve and then had dinner at a friend’s house. We spent Christmas morning with just our family of four. We opened presents, read the Christmas story, and made cupcakes for Jesus’ Birthday. We are still trying to work out our own family’s traditions! We went to dinner at another friend’s house that evening. We are thankful for friends here!
