Writing this from Utah (!!!) while we're here to welcome Courtlyn home from Ecuador.
Logan & Justin's birthdays are in the middle of November. As soon as those festivities were celebrated, we put up the Christmas tree & made a list of everything Christmas we wanted to do. Bought lots of candles to light, downloaded new albums to listen to, and added some cheesy Hallmarks to our watchlist.
We also turned on The Christ Child & Light the World videos when we had some downtime to really bring the Christmas spirit. <3
Logan was pretty happy to have a new toy to mess with full of ornaments and things he shouldn't grab!! I will say he's done surprisingly well & hasn't pulled the tree on top of himself lately.
Made some macrame angels for our tree & gave a few away to friends.
Since Halloween, we've been saying we need to watch Harry Potter. Well, we FINALLY did and our biennial Harry Potter movie marathon has come to a close. Man, those movies are so good.
Christmas market season officially began on November 25, and we've been to 9 markets so far. The food is unmatched & we enjoyed looking forward to certain things we loved from last year... Specifically the potato tornado!
The Bahnhof down the street from us has the most beautiful wreathes and lights put up!
We took a night outing to see this beautiful tree up close. It was amazing!! There was even a free concert going on in front of it. Still deciding if the singer was drunk or not... Ha!
One of our bucket list items was Walli's Christmas concert at the Berlin Dome. Some friends watched Logan while we walked along the river and past some markets to get to our concert. I love where we live!
It was our first time inside the Dome and it is beautiful. There's a huge organ on the left side of the second level. Hearing the organ solos were some of my favorite pieces of the concert. Most of the concert was in Latin & we saw a few kids from our ward also performing with the Kennedy School. I definitely felt the Christmas spirit as we sang along to some of the hymns in English and German.
It's moments like those that I can't believe we get to live in such a beautiful place and experience a new culture with all of the amazing people who come with it.
I definitely want to go back next year!
Justin and I headed across the street to a Christmas market & snagged some Nutella churros before going home. It was the best date night!! So grateful for friends who watch Logan and make those nights possible.
We had one last outing with some friends before heading to the U.S.A! Tried a new Greek restaurant and holy cow. I'm a converted fried zucchini fan and can't wait to go back. There are THOUSANDS of restaurants in Berlin. Like 7,000. So many different cuisines and authentic dishes we've loved trying.
We had a great Berlin holiday season & were lucky enough to be home for a couple of weeks leading up to Christmas.