play dates

Piper had a few girls from her class over for a play date. These are her BFF's from school...Piper, little Lucy, Nella, and Milli. All super sweet girls so grateful they all have each other!

Christmas Market

We went to a Christmas market one Sunday morning at the Castle Nehalozeves (say that fast 5 times!) about 30 minutes outside of Prague. It was the most beautiful crisp day, the skies were blue, the sun was shining and all the wonderful things of village life were on display. The vendors had some amazing beautiful handmade items, lots of yummy food and several art projects for the kids to participate in. It was a wonderful morning. So refreshing and fun. And definitely a great way to kick off the Christmas season!
Vendors inside and out. Look at the sky... wowThe kids painted magnets in the cellar of the castle. Where you could also buy the castle's wine and some yummy cheeses. Pikle are my favorite Czech treat. It is fried dough with sugar and cinnamon... along the lines of a churro.

This glass blower was making ornaments as we watched.

More vendors in the castle.

St. Mikulas (Nicholas) is a czech tradition that happens on December 5. He travels around the city with the angel and devil. He asks you what you want for Christmas, they ask about your behavior, make you perform a song or poem and then they give you candy. Lucy and Clark sang Jingle Bells in English and everyone loved that!

Really great day we will definitely be at this market again next year!

Thanksgiving #2

Every year we have a Davis/ Syvertsen Thanksgiving the Saturday after. Laura hosts, the kids run around and lots of food is consumed. True bliss. This year Tom and Cyndy joined us along with Carrie and Mathias and a few storm troopers. We ate dinner and then headed to the neighborhood playground in the dark. The kids rode the merry go round until they couldn't walk straight and all the daddies tried climbing walls. It was such a lovely evening.

Black Friday...

Our kids do not get Thanksgiving Thursday or Friday off but every year I keep them home for Black Friday. This year I kept it a surprise until late Thursday afternoon and then told them what we had planned..We headed out for breakfast at Starbucks for Peppermint Hot Chocolates with Miss Jessica and Miss Betsy. Then off to the church to "help" (I use that term loosely) decorate the church for Christmas. Then Phil met up with us so we could go get our tree. I think we are the first ones in Prague to go out each year! Then we rounded our day out with dinner at a friend's house and ELF! Saturday was reserved for tree trimming and house decorating! LOVE CHRISTMAS TIME!