Holidays – Page 51

Christmas day continued

January 15, 2018

Our Christmas day fun continued when our favorite people arrived!

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Took no time to dive into the presents!

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My favorite part of Christmas was giving Daddo the awesome book I made for him chronicling the history of his Ferrari collection…

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Love Samantha giving Susu and GJ a baby doll show….

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And out of all the super cool toys these guys got, I think these squishies were their favorite! Go figure!

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The house was festive and the tables were set for a feast!

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Robert, once again made the best tenderloin ever!

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And I think everyone enjoyed some good cheer!

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After lunch, there were lots more presents to be opened! The fun never stops!

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Love these sweet cousins!

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It was a great Christmas day with these cute kiddos!

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Ho Ho Ho indeed! Only 11 months until we get to do it again!!

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Christmas morning! finally! Maxwell was in our room by 6am and we made him hop in bed with us just for a bit before we went and woke up Spencer and Samantha. By 6:30, everyone was bleary eyed and ready to head downstairs!

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We were all so happy to see that Santa had come – and he had been very generous!

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Everyone got what they asked for – jerseys for Maxwell, a remote control dinosaur for Spencer, and a babydoll highchair for Samantha. There were lots and lots of surprises too!

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We spent the morning happily checking out all the new stuff!

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They got these surprise balls which you unwrapped to find little presents throughout…kinda fun.

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But also had pretty junky presents in them. Not sure Santa should get those again!

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My fave pic from the morning…Maxwell reading Spencer’s new book to him. 💙

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Proof I was there…

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and Robert too!

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The wrapping of Maxwell’s present to me. Love him.

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We then had Christmas waffles (breaking tradition from the pancakes!)…

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and got ready for family to come over!

Have a great weekend and see you Monday!

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Christmas Eve

January 11, 2018

On Christmas Eve we went to the noon church service and everyone was looking holly jolly!

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Especially Samantha in my old dress (that she also wore last year!)…

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Samantha did “ok”…I’m hoping by next year we’ll all actually be able to enjoy the service! That afternoon I had some helpers while making food for Christmas day…

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Best bowl cleaners around!

That night we had GJ, Daddo, and Susu over for dinner and Daddo gave the kids these neat Santa lanterns to put by their stockings so Santa could be sure to find them in the dark!

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We then got on our Christmas pjs and got the cookies and milk ready!

The kids were excited!! (and here you either get Samantha picking her nose or Spencer’s eyes closed. Take your pick! ha!)

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We did get a cute pic under our lanterns though!

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Everyone then snuggled in with their special Christmas pillowcases…

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and went fast asleep hoping that Santa would come!

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Other Christmas fun

January 10, 2018

Just a few more fun things we did leading up to Christmas…

I got to go up to Maxwell’s class to help them make a craft! I took pics of all the kids one day when I was at school one day and cut them out so they could “elf” themselves! These were my samples (which might hang on my fridge all year long!)…

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It was fun to be up in the classroom with the kids and all of their elves turned out great!

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I also went up to help with the Christmas party and they did a book exchange which was funny. I love seeing Maxwell in his element at school!

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The boys got to go make gingerbread houses with James and his cousin, Rex. Maxwell has done this for a few years now but this was Spencer’s first time to get to to go!

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Spencer also got invited to a Santa breakfast party the Saturday before Christmas – such fun!

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These boys loved seeing Santa…and each other!

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Samantha didn’t get invited to any special parties but, don’t worry, she fully enjoyed the spoils of the season too!

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We loved having Susu in town before the holiday…

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and got plenty of wear out of our Christmas pjs!

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We were ready for Christmas!!

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Gingerbread Elf

January 9, 2018

First, Roll Tide Roll! What a game…that overtime kept us up too late but we have some happy Bama fans at our house today! 17!

Like the past couple of years (2015 and 2016), Gingerbread Elf came to visit before Christmas! He doesn’t have to do too much reporting back to Santa on my kids because they’re actually pretty well behaved, but he does usually bring a few fun surprises and do some funny stuff! He had some crazy antics this year…

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