Christmas 2014

We had a holly jolly Christmas! And I’m just now finding a little time for a recap!

We started out the weekend before Christmas celebrating at Josh’s parent’s house!

 

Next up was Christmas Eve at Maw Maw’s house!

And then it was Christmas morning! My family came over for lunch Christmas Day! My sister and I gave each other the EXACT same coffee cup! We don’t even give each other gifts and we gave each other the same thing. HOW does this happen?  Self timer family pics before heading to my parents the weekend after Christmas! Griffin and Peyton LOVE LOVE to kayak. Especially at the beach…well Gigi and Papa had a BIG surprise for them! Their very own kayaks! B loves his circus peanuts! haha!Reece with her jewelry armoire! She’s doing her best to fill it up!   She’s getting married in 3 months!!! EEEKKKKSSSS! Papa and Reece shenanigans! Gigi and Papa with their grands! And, me and my LOVE! We had a wonderful Christmas!

Visiting Santa!

Last week we went to visit Santa! Brooks just looked at him and Cason freaked his freak! Big time. Haha!

To see our past Santa visits go here and here!

Merry Christmas!

Happy Birthday Reece!

We celebrated Reece’s SEVENTH birthday Saturday! I can’t believe our Christmas baby is 7!!

She and I had a date Friday night! My best friend’s little girl had her dance recital and it was the perfect mommy/daughter date! It was so cute…she and I both really enjoyed it!

As soon as Officer Hubby arrived home from work Saturday morning we let her open her gifts from us and we ate cookie cake! Yes we did…at 8 am. That night we had dinner at Cypress Inn, the birthday girl’s choice! Afterwards, we carried on with our tradition and went riding to see Christmas lights! It was a fun day!

2014 Christmas Card

One of my very favorite things about Christmas is Christmas Cards! It makes me so excited to see what’s in the mailbox during December! I heart snail mail! I make it a priority to send out a card every year…I don’t think I’ve missed one year since Griffin was born! I bet I have them all…I need to dig them out! Anyway, here’s this year’s card!

Griffin’s Christmas Concert

Last week(or maybe the one before that..ha!), Griffin had his first band concert! For these kids to have not known how to play AT ALL three months ago, it was GREAT! I was so proud of them!

He is still loving playing all the percussion instruments! He is constantly drumming on anything and everything and it kinda drives me insane.

But that’s ok!

Reece’s Frozen Skating Party!

We celebrated Reece’s birthday a couple of weeks early this year! When you are born 5 days before Christmas you get to do this sort of thing! ;) She wanted a Frozen party-of course she did, along with every other birthday girl! And she also wanted an ice skating party! Perfect! It was freezing in the arena BUT we had a cozy little fireplace in our party room!

   She was too shy to blow her candles out…cue your BFF’s! haha! They handled it! I LOVE this of my sweet little niece peeking through the glass!! We love our birthday girl! I can’t believe she will be SEVEN on Saturday! She has her birthday all planned out! ;) And also…our cute little party favors!  And, for my records, her invite:

Thanksgiving and Happy Birthday!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Officer Hubby was off work so it was EXTRA fun! We never have the same off days, only for Thanksgiving! BUT, this year, Christmas and New Year’s fall on his off days also so we get to spend ALL of the holidays together!!!! YIPEE!!

We ate Thanksgiving lunch at my sister’s and then we were lazy pretty much the rest of the day. We spent the weekend decorating for Christmas and cheering our TIDE to an Iron Bowl VICTORY! I heart family time!

Yesterday we celebrated Josh’s 33rd birthday! YEP, he’s OLD! haha! I don’t care how old he is, I love that man more than anything!