Christmas Parties!!!!!

Welcome back everyone! (Or just welcome if it's your first time...)  I hope everyone had a splendid week!  We sure did.  And I got a lot of pictures of Brooke after getting chastised for last weeks post.  First, Brooke put on her work out clothes this last week and did some exercise with Monica!  She did lift that 2 pound weight a few times, so she's getting swull!

Last Sunday Monica and I had our own Thanksgiving dinner, also known as "dinner" on nights that are not Thanksgiving.  We did this because we didn't get to bring back any leftovers!!  It was a very successful first go at it.  The stuffing came out a little dry, but other then that it was terrific!

On Wednesday SEAKR had their children's Christmas party, complete with Santa!  They had a great dinner of pizza and chicken fingers, all kid classics.  Brooke got to meet Santa for the first time, and was immediately interested in coming back to us.

They also had a present for each child.  Brooke got a Paddington bear!  She really does like it, she was just feeling the stranger danger!  We had a lot of fun at the party and it was fun to see everyone there with their kids.  I don't much get to see co-workers kids.

On Friday night we went down to downtown Parker to see the decorations.  The shopping center had inflatable decorations out again, such as this bear.  They also had a big Mickey that Brooke really liked, but there wasn't a good way to take a picture with it.

There was also some sidewalk chalk out on the street.  I'm not sure what event that came from, but it was really cool.  It unfortunately wasn't complete, but here's an octopus:

And a... design with fish:

And some turtles!!  They were very impressive.

Oh yeah, they also had this whack-a-penguin.  It was motorized and the penguins would go in and out.

After our initial walk around we went to dinner at Indochine, which was terrific.  Brooke was waving at everyone that walked by too!  I let her try my lemon that was in my water, and she was going crazy for it!  That girl loves sour!  Well, after dinner it was dark, so it was a good time to go see the lights.  First here's an old historic church that was across the street from where we ate.

And here's the big main tree in the park!  They do more sparse lights and the snowflakes in a lot of other trees, but they always do the big tree in the corner the most.

And here we all are at the park!  They had a more standard Christmas tree that we tried to put in the background, but it was really tall, so that never worked out.

Saturday night was my work party at Mile High Stadium.  We got a babysitter so we could go again this year (we missed last year since Brooke was so recently born).  We got to go down to the field and into one of the nice VIP boxes.  The dinner was also very good again!  But the desserts were not near as good as two years ago...

Today Brooke wore her Christmas dress to church, and I was instructed to take a million pictures until I got it right!  Here's Brooke chilling at the base of the tree.  I was trying to get her to reach for an ornament cause I thought it would be cute, but she just kinda half pointed instead.

Then I moved an ornament down for her to get, which led to her no longer looking at me or sitting up.

Finally she grabbed a very Christmasy random book from the floor and without ever smiling looked at me.  BOOM! Nailed it! I also need to note that this is the first time Brooke's hair has been long enough to put a barrette in it!

What a busy week!  A lot happened around here.  I think things are going to calm down a little this next week.  I hope everyone is doing fantastic!  Till next week!