Pre Christmas Activities

I'm still stuck on Christmas - haven't even made it to Christmas Eve yet, but I am just happy that I am getting this down in our family journal. So....4 days before Christmas we had the annual Hawkes Cousin Christmas Party. It was nice because Shon had taken that day off work so he was able to go with us.

We decorated gingerbread and sugar cookies for Santa...

We played games, and opened presents....

And here's all the cousins (minus 2 little sick ones). It just gets bigger and bigger every year.

And, 3 days before Christmas we did our piano recital. The best thing about teaching piano is that I am able to play the teacher/student duets with my kids at the recital.