Happy 2017 to everyone! Hard to believe another year has come and gone already!
December was a jam packed, super fun month!
We started the month with more basketball and Gymnastics. The girls wrapped up their basketball season with a 5-2 record. They loved playing and had so much fun. We start a second season next weekend and they are already counting down to their first game. Gymnastics is, as always, a hit and Thomas even gets to join the fun. He is all about jumping on the trampolines!
After getting out tree, decorating it and the house, we headed out for our annual Christmas outing. We had a successful trip to see Santa with no tears and all smiles from everyone. We even mailed our lists to the North Pole. After seeing Santa, we headed out to see the Dancing Lights of Jellystone park and it did not disappoint! The kids loved it!
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| After seeing the big guy |
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| All Smiles |
Hudson had a fun spirit week the last week of school that included Christmas sock day, crazy hat day, Reindeer Day, Pajama Day and Tacky Sweater day. It was such a fun way to wrap up the year!
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| Reindeer day |
Once school was out and we finished our last basketball game, we packed up and headed to Atlanta to celebrate Christmas with the Halters. As always it was full of lots of cousin time and fun outings!
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| Gingerbread houses with SueSue |
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| Finished product |
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| So cute |
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| Fun at Catch Air |
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| Making Dog treats with SueSue |
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| Seeing Santa again...just in case |
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| Fun at the Mall |
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| Annual trip to the Blow Up House |
After celebrating Christmas and having a great trip, we headed home just in time to get ready for Christmas day!
Christmas Eve we went to church and hurried home to make pizzas (our tradition) and cookies for Santa. We even spread some reindeer food in the front yard and then got in bed early!
Christmas morning was met with pure excitement, joy and...the stomach bug! It hit Tom first, but he was a trooper and powered through opening presents. Later in the day, it hit Thomas and then Sully! It was a rough day all around but we made it through and somehow Hudson and I avoided it! Despite the bug, we all had a great day full of presents, fun, and playing with friends!
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| Fun on Christmas day |
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| Karaoke Machine from Santa |
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| I love this crew! |
The rest of our break has been filled with playing with friends, Winter camp, football watching and fun! We hope everyone had as great a 2016 as we did and here's to an amazing 2017!
As always, here are the rest of the pictures from our December:
