December started with a trip to Hunter Farm to look at some christmas trees, ride on a sleigh, and have a visit with Santa. As exciting as it is to pick out your very own over-priced christmas tree, we decided to go with our cheapy fake one for another year. So we just admired all of the beautiful real ones and Eleanor and Penelope ran through the rows and rows of trees. I tried to snap a picture but they were just having too much fun.
After all the frolicking through the trees we got in line for our sleigh ride.
We rode over to see the animals and give them something to eat. Santa was also in the barn with the animals, but the girls were more interested in hanging out with the goats, sheep, pigs, cows and chickens.
Penelope started to get a little bit nervous when the animals were getting loud so she found some reindeer to love right outside the barn.
Then it was time for our hayride back to the fire-pit for s'mores and hot chocolate.
And this is how Penelope felt about having hot chocolate when it's 71 degrees outside.
So from the first weekend in December until Christmas morning I didn't take any pictures on my camera. Oopsies. I did get some on my phone so I'll have to fill in the rest of December in another post with camera phone pictures. I think my point and shoot camera is on its last leg. Most of the pictures I took Christmas morning didn't really turn out so I mainly have video clips. So I thew them together and made a little movie. I figured it's probably a good way to organize all the videos I take, especially since it really does capture more than just a picture and the girls love to watch them. I just used Windows Movie Maker to do it, which turns out isn't very user friendly and you can't do a lot of cool stuff. (In college I used imovie a lot so that's what I'm used to. Anybody know if you can get imovie for a PC? Or is there a better movie making program for a PC?)
Anyway, here is a glimpse of our Christmas. We stayed home and enjoyed a nice Christmas together with just our family.
Since we didn't go anywhere for Christmas we decided to go on a fun outing to Discovery Place Kids. It was the best children's museum! We went the day after Christmas so it got a little crowded, otherwise we could have stayed all day. The girls loved it! Here's a video of some of the things we did there.
For New Year's we headed over to Wilmington to visit Andrew's parents. His sister was there with her husband and his grandparents were also visiting all the way from Washington. We had a barbque on New Year's day and enjoyed playing outside in the beautiful North Carolina weather!