First things first.

Just to cover all our lost ground.  Here are some pictures of the Season in Saudi...

 We managed a Christmas tree.  It was small but beautiful.

 I just want to memorialize the fact that I made my kids matching Christmas outfits.  It seemed like the right thing to do.

 I love this picture.  Even though it's a little fuzzy. Look.  They can be happy.

 This is our version of a gingerbread house.  I should get extra points for letting them do all the decorating.

 Lots of extra points.

 I love this picture.  And not just because it's one of the few decent pictures of me taken while going through the ugly-growing-my-hair-out stage.

This gentleman dresses up for the kids on camp.  Beti had pink eye (I didn't know, okay?).  Merry Christmas.

Christmas (that's right...2012)

Since I just ordered our Christmas pajamas for 2013 I thought it was time to blog about Christmas 2012...

We had a great Christmas season here.  Just as I was beginning to think that maybe it wouldn't be so bad to spend Christmas in Saudi we left.  And went to Switzerland. And I realized how much I'd been missing! We had planned to spend five days with friends in Zurich and then spend a couple of nights in Germany but we had so much fun in Zurich that we skipped Germany and enjoyed our time together.  It was so much fun.  Just. So. Much. Fun. We can't wait to do it again!

 Who wouldn't love this face?

 On our way up the toboggan "hill".

 Any sledding hill you can take a ski lift up to instead of having to walk is pretty awesome.

 This is what I got to run in.  It was beautiful.  Good for the soul running.

 Skiing.  Calvin's first time.  He loves to hot dog down a bunny hill - maybe a little too much.

 The best window displays.  I could do a whole post of just the kids staring at the displays.

 Yes, we had our Nativity.

 Christmas pajama time.  My kids were pretty excited until they realized their friends had received angry bird/pretty pink pajamas instead of lame Christmas jammies.

 Oh well, they got over it.

 Almost.

 We usually have more luck going for the nobody-look-at-the-camera shots.

 Ice skating on Christmas day.

 Andy's one job was to get a picture of Calvin looking so swank.  It was a tall order.

Fail.  We meant to see the Sleeping Beauty castle but got stuck in traffic and didn't make it before closing so we had to settle on viewing it from the outside and touring the sister castle.  Much less glamorous.