Christmas 2015

We had a great Christmas season this year. It started out with my annual harp ensemble performance at the Children's Hospital.  We had a great turn out of patients, parents, and hospital workers, and it was a delight to be able to play for them and bring them some holiday cheer.

Justin got an early Christmas present this year when we discovered that our 1999 Toyota 4Runner was beginning to have transmission problems.  We sadly sold our 4Runner and bought a new crossover, a 2016 Subaru Crosstrek.  It is a really fun, zippy little car to drive, yet it still has all-wheel drive and does great in the snow, but with much better gas mileage than the 4Runner.  We've had so many memories with the 4Runner, from our very first date, to bringing home all our babies from the hospital, so it was sad to see it go, but this new car has been pretty fun. (This picture was taken on December 23rd, the day after we bought it--notice how green our grass is!!)

The snow came the next day on Christmas Eve, and Justin had a grand time snow blowing all the neighbors' driveways.  I think he did about 7 total.  Molly and Lexie even went out to help too! They were excited about having a white Christmas!