Christmas Week

Evie is super helpful with wrapping Christmas gifts...

Yes, it's that time of year, lots of wrapping and last-minute shopping to finish off the lists. I shopped, and Stace and I went together to the mall on Tuesday after dinner.

The girls are off this week, although Cora worked a few hours, helping build the set for the high school's next play. Nice that she's getting paid to do theatre stuff!

I met up with Christina for coffee and we got caught up. 

Violet did archery one afternoon with Stace. 

And we girls had dentist appointments.
 

I took advantage of an amazing Corner Bakery coupon deal and got all this food for less than $15. This fed us all for dinner Monday, and then some.

Our church did the same "Christmas" service on Sunday AND on Christmas Eve. We went on Sunday, and then went to Valley Market to get our prime rib roast for Christmas. 

On Christmas Eve, Stace worked a half day, and in the evening, we went to Valencia Hills church for service, complete with the traditional candlelight singing of Silent Night.

We then watched our favorite English historians celebrate the holiday, Tudor style.

Well, we were watching, I promise! It was a restful, rainy evening.

Speaking of rain! We had about eight inches over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day! Lake Howard was in full effect.