We had a busy December and a nice long family Christmas Break since Jason was able to get over a week off of work. Although we were all sick at various times throughout Christmas, we still managed to do a few fun activities.
We visited the Festival of Lights at the Cincinnati Zoo. It was hard to get good pictures in the dark, but we went on a warm evening and enjoyed seeing all the light displays. Ethan's favorite part was dancing to the musical light show on the pond.
We saw a fun children's theatre production of The Shoemaker and the Elves at the library. It was very well done with all the parts done by just four actors. We all enjoyed it!
Ethan enjoyed playing with his Fisher Price nativity set. He liked to set all the animals and people around baby Jesus and eventually started adding his own stuffed animals and toys to the mix.
I took a picture of me pregnant at 30 weeks. This baby girl will be here before we know it.
Right before Christmas we went to see a Holiday Train display at the Cincinnati Museum Center. Ethan liked seeing the trains and playing with a wooden toy train set. He also liked seeing the Reindeer puppets sing and talk to the boys and girls.
On Christmas Eve day we visited the Creation Museum. It's a museum dedicated to the creation of the world and showing how the word's view differs from God's view of the creation. It was well done. We were also able to see a planetarium show there about the Christmas Star that was very interesting as well. The museum also had a petting zoo outside with donkeys, a camel, cow, goats, wallabies, etc. Since it was over 60 degrees outside we didn't even have to wear jackets. Ethan loved petting them and feeding them and it was fun to see him get so excited about it.
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| These llamas were inside the museum, but we also fed live ones outside at the petting zoo. |
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| They actually had lots of dinosaurs at the creation museum and Ethan really liked those too. |
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| First Christmas Eve at our new house |
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| Christmas morning opening gifts |
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| Christmas Day 2015 |
After Christmas we also did some fun activities. Jason and I got a babysitter so we could go see the new Star Wars movie in the theatre and went out to eat at the Olive Garden, one of my favorite restaurants. It was so much fun! I really enjoyed the movie, food, and time with Jason! We also took a day trip to Indianapolis to visit the new temple there. It's really beautiful inside and out! Jason and I took turns watching Ethan while the other one went inside to do ordinances.
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| Indianapolis, Indiana Temple |
Other December activities including making and delivering Christmas cookies to neighbors, playing games with friends, eating good food, sleeping in when possible, and taking care of a few home improvement projects.
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| We bought a large area carpet rug to put downstairs in the unfinished basement to give us another play area in the house. |
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| I also put together this wall cabinet for our master bathroom to give us a little more storage room in there. |
