Christmas Eve Party

Every year the Applers have a Christmas Eve party that Omer’s family has been attending for a long time. This year we decided to bring Owen along to meet everyone and to enjoy the festivities for a little. As the party starts right at his bedtime, I was a little worried how he’d act but he slept in quite a bit this morning so we started the day already an hour behind. Only after a couple minutes Owen was running around being his normal cute self. 🙂 I think he had a blast at the party until almost exactly when I had planned to leave he started to get very tired. We had timed it perfectly and the rest of the evening went well.

Nancy Appler found this polar bear and she just had to buy it. Owen loved riding it!

Playing peek-a-boo with Babaanne through the door.

The Applers were very sweet and gave Owen a present. (Nancy is in the blue.)

Owen loved the ribbon. He kept trying to put it on his head.

Reading his new book with Babaanne.

“Lights, Lights!”

If you haven’t figured it out by now, Owen loves the Christmas lights outside. I had heard of this street in Sterling that pretty much the whole street gets into the Holiday spirit by decorating their houses in wonderful tacky lights and themes. On our way to the Christmas Eve party we drove through the street and it was a wonderful spectacle of lights. Owen stared out the window just repeating “lights, lights”. Maybe next year we will walk so we can see them up close. I keep wondering what Owen will do once all the lights are gone. Here are a couple of the houses.