Wrapping up Christmas

I spent my first Christmas with the Biehl family! It was great- I loved having kids around! The adults were ok too :) We had a delicious breakfast with homemade cinnamon rolls, an awesome dinner, and played 5 Crowns- I think Kurt's family, at least some of them, are a little bit surprised at my competitiveness. As Claire now knows, I will do whatever it takes to get the card I need! Thanks everyone for making my first Christmas as a Biehl a success! (Especially you Kurt!)

Last night, to finish off the Christmas festivities, Mom and Clarence took me and Kurt to see A Christmas Story: The Musical on 5th Avenue. Oh my gosh- it was hilarious. I was literally laughing out loud. The set, the actors, the singing and dancing, everything was great. One of the best productions I've seen! If it hadn't been the last night of the show I'd recommend you all going to see it for yourselves :)

It was a very merry Christmas and I can't wait until next year!

Reviews

Movie: Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Review: Eh.

Book: Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and His Boy
Review: Loved it!

Book: Treasure Island
Review: Ok.

Book: Alice in Wonderland
Review: Interesting

Short Story: Beauty and the Beast
Review: Great

Movie: True Grit
Review: Wild

Game: Super Mario Bros Wii
Review: Awesome

Game: Donkey Kong Country Returns
Review: Good

Book: The Jungle Book
Review: Thoroughly enjoying

Movie: Inception
Review: Mind Blowing

Movie: Despicable Me
Review: Cute

Book: Gone with the Wind
Review: Enjoying/racist

What else does one do with a few days off :)

Gingerbread!

Here are my favorite scenes from the gingerbread houses on display at the Sheraton Hotel downtown.

Gum trees!

The Space Needle and a plane made of M&M's!

Troll under the Freemont Bridge

Dead Rudolph?

"The Clllaaaaww!"

Minions and WALL-E (plus some more Toy Story references)

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Music

Click here (and then on the blue arrow) to hear the musical stylings of Sarah Hammond. She's amazing!

Merry Little Christmas

We've started from scratch this Christmas. Two strings of colored lights, The Polar Express, and paper snowflakes that our nephew made us several months ago were all the decorations we had between the two of us. So, I decided to make some:

They're all over the ceiling of our front room.


We bought a tree (and some ornaments):

Wrapped some presents:

And now it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas :)