Christmas month! Always a long blog post... always a full, fun month.
We welcomed back the elves. We got all decorated, made cookies and gingerbread houses, watched Christmas movies, visited Santa, and went to the Polar Express. The boys had their artwork in the church advent book and this was the first year all the kids could take turns reading the devotionals. It was a little bittersweet being the first Christmas in several years that Lily didn't dance in the Nutcracker (we did go see it!), but it was so wonderful having her home more. I feel like she got to be a bit of a kid again and bake and relax with us. So thankful for that!
We also celebrated Grandpa's birthday and Crew's birthday!
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| Welcome back Christmas Tree and Elfie! |
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| Starting her huge Harry Potter lego set! |
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| Briggs' giant paper airplane! |
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| A pumpkin with Christmas slippers. Came down for movie night like this. |
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| Mischievous elves. It was hard to read by the time we found it, but we think the elves wrote HO HO HO on the shower! |
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| Crew's hey clay snowman. |
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| What a fun setup the elves made. ;) Growing up is such a bittersweet thing. On one hand it's so sweet when they're little and enjoy the magic in that way... on the other hand it's fun to have another secret keeper. I'm trying to embrace both! |
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| Cherishing this last year with the boys together at the Dilworth campus. |
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| Happy Birthday, Grandpa! |
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| Christmas Claymation. |
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| Go Lil. :) |
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| Polar Express! |
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| Thank you to the Antonio's for the huge Christmas coloring sheet. The kids worked on it for hours. |
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| Marshmallow snowflakes. Kindergarten Winter class party! |
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| Cookie decorating and sleepover at Addie's. |
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| Daddy fixed Elmo! |
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| Briggs and I walked (and scooted) to Harris Teeter to get his Christmas present for Grandpa -- a Starbucks gift card (his idea). We had fun on our Briggs & Mommy adventure. |
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| B's first Starbucks. Haha. |
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| Christmas cookies! |
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| Happy Advent. |
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| Briggsy bop-it. |
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| Santa tracker! |
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| Happy Christmas Eve. |
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| Milk and cookies for Santa. |
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| Christmas morning! |
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| FINALLY, she got to see the surprise I got her and Lily at Harry Potter world. It became a joke how many times she asked what it was! |
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| Lily gifted C the perfume she really wanted. |
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| My mug from B! |
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| From 1st grade. I just love this. |
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| Day after Christmas visit with Allie & Hunter. |
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| Cozy family sleepover. |
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| Crew is (almost) 6! |
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| So fun... B got Crew a TCBY gift card for his birthday and wrapped it layers and layers for Crew to open. |
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| Birthday morning brother hug. |
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| A fun surprise... the electric ukulele! |
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| Birthday tubing and ice skating. |
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| Mario soccer game. :) |
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| Charley is definitely in her Stranger Things era. ;) |
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| New Year's Eve dinner at The Shore (Lily and Charley's restaurant)! |
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| And our second annual New Year's Eve talent show. |
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| We had quite the eclectic talent show. Musical theatre and Billie Eilish from the girls, Crazy Train from Crew, and Take On Me from Briggs. :) |
Happy New Years! Here's to a happy, healthy, peaceful year to all.
xoxo
