Christmassy

I've been slacking on my blogging duties. It's hard to find the time and motivation to do it, especially when it requires me to remember details about stuff that happened a while ago. 

I have three seasonal posts in the works that will hopefully succeed in summarizing the holiday called Christmas. 

Naturally, we couldn't usher in that special time of year without attending the festival of trees. 

One of these times the rest of the family will learn to appreciate it as much as I do.

Why do they not understand how festive it is?!  It's an important part of a complete Christmas season.

I'm only sharing a few pictures since most of them turned out blurry. Phooey.

We brought along Jane's BFF, Cristina, to pacify Jane. They are pretty much inseparable.

I liked this treats-inspired tree the best. Predictable, I know. But equally as irresistible.

It may look like Cora took some garland off a tree, but this is just part of one of the kids' activities they had there.

Here's another blobby-looking tree (courtesy of our camera's eye). 

It was covered in cute peppermint "candies".

The main reason we chose to attend the fest on that particular night was to support some ward friends (Richard and Emma Beck) in their fiddling performance. Emma and their young kids play the violin and Richard plays the guitar. They started this group a couple of years ago with some of their friends. They are very good! Definitely the best performers of the evening. =)

That's all I have to say about the festival of trees, but while I'm on the topic of performing, I'll share some pictures from Jane's December orchestra concert.

This was before the show started. Once again, Cristina and Jane are together. 

 This year marks their first stab at orchestra. They both chose to play the viola. 

Also note their matching outfits.

They are pretty cute, aren't they?

And that's as Christmassy as I'll get for now.

Just you wait until the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day posts.