We had a pretty busy December, It seems like we had
something to do every weekend. We started off the month with visiting the Zoo
for Zoo lights. Clayton responds to the Zoo on a regular basis so they stopped
by the station and handed out some free tickets to the event. They added more
lights this year and more exhibits. 
Some of the lights were the same but there were a lot more lights and there was a completely new glow in the dark exhibit. Tess loves Christmas lights and animals so it was a fun evening. My parents and Diana joined us and we made it a family fun night for Tess. She always enjoys spending time with her family so it was a good time had by all.
We have had some crazy weather this year, we knew that a cold front was coming in but when they started talking about the possibility of snow we never thought it would actually happen. Clayton of course was working because he tends to be at work when crazy weather comes in and Tess woke up to Snow. Not sure if that will ever happen again but she was so happy. Tess and Rosie ran around outside while Lexi stayed inside. Tess’s elementary school even allowed them to play in the snow in the morning, it’s not that often that there is snow that sticks to the ground in Texas.
In November we took family pictures but we didn’t get the pictures back until sometime in December when we saw Kevin and Mona. Its takes a little while for Tess to warm up but once she does she loves her time in front of the camera.
The following weekend we decided to visit Santa’s Wonderland with Mona and Kevin. We have seen Santa’s Wonderland outside of college station for years and have been meaning to take a trip. We picked a weekend in December made the trip out. It had been raining all day and we talked about not going but we had already bought the tickets and we weren’t sure if we would be able to use the tickets any other time. We bundled up and headed out.
There is a hay ride that you take through the lights and the
bales were soaking. Mona and I’s butts got soaked and once we got done we
headed straight to the fire and try to dry and warm up. We looked around after
the ride and got some hot chocolate. There were still a lot of people and not a
lot to do unless you wanted to shop. Tess had no interest in a picture with Santa
so we headed out and ate dinner.
On Sunday afternoon it was time to clean up the house and get ready school and work. Tess was eager to help clean up and I was eager to share to workload. She helped vacuum the coach while I cleaned up the kitchen. Now if only she wanted to help all the time.
We had a couple more days left of school before we headed out on vacation and Clayton started to not feel very well. It turns out Clayton had the flu and the doctors put both Tess and I on preventative Tamiflu. Clayton and I think that the Tamiflu upset Tess’s stomach because she threw up the night before her last day of school. Since both Clayton and Tess were sick I worked from home and Tess missed her last day of school. She was a little upset until I reminded her that we were going on vacation and that we didn’t need to go to a school party.
Like I initially said, our December was jam packed and it
ended with a vacation to the Happiest place on earth.
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