Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
We had the Brown family over for Christmas day lunch and it was a great afternoon all around! My crew begrudgingly cleaned up their Santa haul and we were ready for company!
Samantha made place cards! 🙂
Self timer family selfie!
This is more like it!
All the cousins had fun together!
After our Christmas for 5 last year, it sure was nice to have a house full of family to celebrate the day!
Merry Christmas!
The kids were up bright and early – but they had to wait until the first number was a 6 before coming into our room! They were there exactly at 6:00! Excitement was high!!
Santa delivered on just about everything – with a few surprises too!
It was so fun to watch while they checked everything out!
When Samantha noticed the Ms. Pac-Man Machine!
I think this was Maxwell’s favorite present despite his face here – his new Greenlight card!
Samantha’s new dress up shoes!
Authentic 1980s Totally Hair Barbie!
Everyone had fun with Ms. Pac-Man!
We then opened the presents from each other. Maxwell was very proud of the gigantic present he wrapped for Dad…
which turned out to be a tiny chapstick! ha!
Robert and I provide our middle-ageness by getting each other Theragun products! Our aching bodies need help!!
Samantha wasn’t excited at all about her present from us…
and that’s when she thought it was just LOL pajamas! Then she saw that she got tickets to see LOL Live on Stage!! Woohoo!
The boys then opened one of our presents and they got tickets too! Tickets to see the Falcons play the next day in Atlanta!! Rise up!
They then watched a special video from Boban Marjanović, a player for the Dallas Mavericks telling them they’ve got tickets to see the Cavs play the Magic in Dallas in January!! Headed to the Big D!
It was a fantastic Christmas morning with lots of smiling, happy faces…like this one!
That’s Samantha with some of her new makeup out of her caboodle!!
Merry merry indeed!
We had a really great Christmas Eve with some pretty perfect weather! After much back and forth, I did convince Samantha to wear this precious dress and it made me so happy.
We stuck with the noon church service again this year and, given the rise in covid cases, we were glad to be the only ones sitting up in the balcony.
After church we had lunch up at the club and decided to sit outside to avoid covid. It was a beautiful day for it! We then got lots and lots of photos – many of which make me laugh pretty hard!!
Samantha was on fire with the silliness!
I was being silly here but I love it. Just a picture of me doing the most! It wasn’t easy this Christmas season but I feel like I made some Christmas magic happen for the kids and I’m proud of it. So, cheers to me! Maxwell’s expression sums up everyone else’s feelings. ha!
We did manage to get some “normal” photos which aren’t nearly as fun!
I sure do love this crew and am so grateful we got to have a wonderful Christmas Eve together!
The week before Christmas we went to see the Beyond Van Gogh exhibit in Birmingham and I thought it was really cool! The kids didn’t think it was quite as neat as I did, but I still think they enjoyed it and got something out of it. We went with some friends which makes everything more fun!
Culture!
The kids are back to school today so how about a round up of before school photos from before the break!
Gah, they’re all three so cute. Hope the second half of school is even better than the first!