December 2015

Hard to believe 2015 has come and gone already!  The Christmas season flew by but we did our best to make the most of it!

We took our annual trip to Opryland to see their decorations and to walk through ICE.  This year it was the Nutcracker theme so Hudson was in heaven with all the ballerinas and princesses.  They do such a great job with all of their lights and the life size Nativity scene outside.  The girls just love it.  

Opryland Christmas

ICE - The Nutcracker

We also had our very first successful trip to see Santa.  There were no tears (although Hudson still wouldn't sit in his lap) but luckily, Sullivan has no fear!  Thomas just looked at him like - "who the heck are you?"  The girls even wrote letters to him and we mailed those in the special mailbox at the mall to make sure he got them in time!

Santa...and no tears!

We also took our annual Pre-Christmas trip to Atlanta to Celebrate with the Halters.  We had a great week with everyone.  The girls got to make Gingerbread houses, cookies and dog treats with SueSue like they do every year.  We had a sleepover with Cousin Reed.  We got to see all 3 boys play basketball.  We took 3 trips to the awesome playground by SueSue's house and to the Inflatable House!  We spent one rainy morning at Bass Pro Shop's Winter Wonderland shooting guns, riding the carousel, seeing the fish and of course sitting in Santa's lap one more time - just to make sure he knew what everyone wanted.  We capped off the trip with our Christmas dinner and celebration.  We had a great present exchange with everyone to end the night!

The cutest Elf

When we got back to Nashville, we had just enough time to hang out with friends and enjoy the 70+ degree weather.  We played outside as much as we could.  We took a big neighborhood trip to Pump It Up (where Hudson finally conquered the rock wall).  We had awesome neighbors/friends take the girls to a walk-through Live Nativity which they loved.  And the girls got to enjoy a sleepover at Aunt Macy's complete with dinner at Chic-fil-A and a trip to her Church's Winter Festival.

We spent Christmas Eve at Church which the girls love because of all the singing and the story of Baby Jesus.  Thomas enjoyed it too.  So much so, that he spit up all the way down my dress in the middle of the service - super fun!  We made our traditional homemade pizzas and cookies for Santa.  We even tracked him on NORAD which was super fun for the girls.

Christmas Day was so much fun this year!  Both girls were very into it and Thomas even loved opening presents!  Santa was very good to all three kiddos and even filled the Dog's stockings (Makers checked her stocking every morning since we hung them up...so she was pumped when it was actually full for once).  The girls' big present, which came in a new suitcase from "Mickey Mouse" was a countdown chain to our trip to DISNEY WORLD!  We head out in February and they are so excited.  Everyday Hudson tells me "I just can't believe we are going to Disney World..."  

Santa found the Girls

And Thomas

We are going to DISNEY WORLD!

After Christmas, we didn't do much.  We helped our good friend and Neighbor Braxton, celebrate his birthday at the Science Center which was super fun.  Then unfortunately, Thomas came down with RSV and was pretty pitiful for a few days.  Luckily, we avoided having to spend any time at the Hospital, just 3 hours at the pediatrician for one breathing treatment, some Advil for a fever and a prescription for an ear infection!  The girls and I snuck out on New Year's Day while the boys stayed home to rest and had some serious trampoline fun.  We spent about an hour and a half at JumpStreet which was awesome. The rest of the break was spent playing with all our neighborhood friends which we are so blessed to have.  I think we counted 15 kids under the age of 10 on our street alone so finding someone to play with is as easy as walking out the front door!

Thomas did celebrate his 7 Month Birthday a few days after Christmas.  He is now 18 lbs, 6 oz.  He has 6 teeth - 4 on top and 2 on the bottom.  He is up on all fours doing some rocking back and forth trying to crawl, but has also learned how to scoot forward on his bottom to get something he really wants.  He still loves to eat and has now tried pancakes, homemade bread and a homemade banana muffin which he loved!

Happy 7 Months to this guy!

That is about all for 2015!  We are looking forward to an exciting 2016 and can't wait to see what is in store for us! 

As always, here are the rest of the pictures from December:

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