We've had lots of fun Christmas activities the last couple of weeks. We had the community Christmas program at the Methodist Church where Pat played in the bell choir.

 The kids had their school music program. Truman is on the back row in the middle.

 The K-4th graders did a performance of parts of the Nutcracker. Amelia was a fairy princess. They did a little dance.

 The annual lighted Christmas parade, with the Artbulance of course.

 Santa (not the real Santa, but his special helper Santa Shawn) came to BTI to meet with kids. As we were standing in line, Truman says, "that santa sounds like Shawn." Even though they were pretty sure it was Shawn, who they know well, they were shy. Amelia was very prepared with a list of what she wanted. She read him her list. Truman just asked for 2 things. Amelia left her list with Santa so he could reference it later.

 Truman has been asking me the last few days to make gingerbread houses. So, as he says, we took a shortcut and used graham crackers.