Happy New Year!!! Oh friends, we have had the best few weeks celebrating the holiday, being away for our bowl game, and I'm just feeling refreshed and rejuvenated for the new year. Maybe it's because I still have a few more days before I go back to work and the girls go back to school.
One of my goals this year is to blog more, so we're starting off strong with re-caps of all that we've been up to over the last few weeks of December, and then we'll keep going with some coach's wives posts, some wellness things, and much, much more!
So, sit back, grab your cup of coffee, and enjoy!
I hate to admit that attending church for us in the Fall was really really hard. We went at leat once a month, and sometimes twice, but there was a time from November through December that we just couldn't make it. I was determined that we would all go the week of Christmas, since we would be out of town for Christmas Eve and Christmas day services.
It's rare that I can get them all in dresses, so we had to take a picture.
The girls were off starting on the 20th, but I had two days of work. It was a lot of squeezing in time between work and getting everything done, and life was crazy. Gretchen and I snuck out one afternoon so she could spend her babysitting money to buy Christmas gifts for us.
We celebrated Christmas on the 22nd, since we had to leave on the 23rd for the Alamo Bowl. So, our Christmas Eve was on the 21st. I feel like we squeezed in all of our favorite Christmas traditions in to one day. December was just so busy for us.
Our elves brought the girls a gingerbread house. Gretchen was wanting everything to be precise. Megan was making piles of poop out of the icing, and Adalyn was trying to eat all of the candy. It was hilarious!
Later that afternoon, we made our hand/foot print canvases. Gretchen opted for fingerprint lights.
Megan made a snowman.
Adalyn made a reindeer.
DJ made his homemade chex-mix!
And I had picked up cookies from a local bakery for our annual lights & pj's night!
We fixed hot cocoa, put on our pj's, grabbed our cookies, and headed out to look at lights.
But first, the girls needed a picture in their matching pj's
And one with me!
Ok, we were finally in the car and ready to go!
We found the coolest light display!
We came home and rushed to make reindeer food and get it sprinkled in the yard.
Then the girls said good-bye to our elves. We let the hold them on Christmas Eve night since they fly back with Santa ;)
And yes, somehow over the years, we've gotten 2 elves. Adalyn swears she needs her own, and Megan thinks they need elf babies.
We read The Night Before Christmas, and put out cookies and milk for Santa.
The girls finally went to bed, and I got to work on our North Pole Breakfasat. It's just a fun little breakfast that our "elves" put together for the girls. We usually have this breakfast on Christmas Eve morning, but since we were squeezing it all in, and DJ had practice on our Christmas Eve, we had our breakfast on our Christmas Day.
Our North Pole breakfast, is really just a fun decorated table. I use wrapping paper to cover the table. I use the same plates each year. I usually pick up Christmas crackers, confetti, hot cocoa bombs, and grabbed little hats this year. We also had streamers hanging from the ceiling, and sometimes we'll have little crafts or games that keep us busy on Christmas Eve day.
Then Santa came!
I'll be back tomorrow and will share our early Christmas day!
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