North Pole City

We got a good tip from some long-time residents in our ward about a year-round Christmas store called North Pole City about 30 minutes from our house. My camera photos don't do it justice. You walk in and you're inside a Christmas tree. Lights and ornaments everywhere. Tree after tree, nutcrackers of every size up to the $3000 model that's taller than me. Just incredible. The $1 kids train ride didn't hurt either!

New Design

It still needs a bit more polish but here's our redone design ready for our Christmas newsletters to go out. Yay!

Christkindlmarkt

We had such fun going to Christkindlmarkt today! We went to the annual event put on by the German-American Society of Tulsa (Oklahoma) which is a traditional market in German towns with craftspeople selling Christmas things, ornaments, etc. St. Nicholas and the Christkindl also roam the market. It takes place on St. Nicholas' day which is already a fun day for our family. On that day we leave out a shoe each for St. Nicholas to (hopefully) put some treats in.

In the morning we did have some treats and after Dad, Grant and Nina attended the Home Depot Kids' Workshop we piled into the van and set off for Tulsa which is about an hour and a half away. Nina unfortunately didn't make it to Tulsa without getting sick and losing all those treats she had. But she recovered and we enjoyed the market, the puppet show, the kids' play room, and the great German food- schnitzel, bratwurst and sauerkraut, apple strudel, and stollen which was my favorite. It's kind of a fruitcake I'm guessing.