NYE!

We had such fun New Year’s Eve plans this year!  We went to the Palmetto Club for an eight course meal with six other couples and then to the Tarantella NYE party.  What a great night and fun way to ring in the New Year!

From my phone

What a wonderful month to end 2014!Some favorites:
A beautiful day for the zoo and my shopping helper!Love these siblings!  These sights never get old!Some firsts for our girl!And our sweet, sweet bundle on the way!  So grateful!

Back at home

Getting some sillies out before bed!

Christmas at G&Gs

We went down to mom and dad’s to celebrate Christmas today.  It was so much fun that I got NO PICTURES of the day’s activities!  I did get Margaret walking around like a big girl,and this one of G&G with the grandbabies.  Love them so!It was so fun being with Linds and the kids and mom and dad.  Thankful to celebrate with them!

Christmas Day walk

We went out for a Christmas Day walk and it was great!  We ran in to so many others also out enjoying the day-Sam kept saying, “Merry Christmas!!”  Loved this day!

Christmas morning

What a fun morning full of excitement!  The boys could hardly stand waiting for us to be ready to go downstairs, mainly Jack, but Sam got wrapped up in excitement, too!  They had a great time with their toys and seeing their faces was great, but the best part was talking about and celebrating Jesus’ birthday!Margaret was mostly walking around grabbing paper to play with, or eating Santa’s leftovers,but she did have a good time opening her new baby doll!We loved Christmas morning!  When Mark and I sat back and just watched them play, we just smiled.  We’re so very blessed and so intensely grateful!

2014 Christmas Card

Merry, Merry!!

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas

After church, we came home for a little bit and then headed out to The Brunson/Newton Christmas party.  So fun and festive!  We stayed for a short while and then headed over to the Weavers to celebrate Christmas!  Love our Weavers and Driggers!  Friends who are family!We came home, past bedtime!, changed into jammies, and daddy read to the children.  As per tradition, he read ‘Twas the Night before Christmas from our first edition copy of the book!  I love watching this each Christmas!  (Here’s how it started, three years ago.)We put out our reindeer food and then were off to bed-as excited as could be!Looking forward to celebrating the birth of our newborn King!

Nativity Pageant

What a super sweet service-one of my favorites of the year!  We had two shepherds, a little grey donkey, and two angels.  What a great way to portray Christ’s miraculous birth!

Cardboard box fun!

That box gave them probably two hours of fun!  It ended as a sled down the stairs.  Loved it!!

Santa Party!

Today was the last day of school before Christmas break, so we had a super fun playdate this afternoon with an extra special visitor!  Margaret wasn’t sure about Santa, but she did ok!We made cards to share to spread Christmas cheer and made sugar cookies.  That was kind of a mess but still fun!It was such a fun party!