woah, christmas catch up!

HOW?!??

How in the world is it already JANUARY 3, 2017?! Goodness. Like the rest of America, the last few weeks have been CRAZY. But, good crazy. We’ve celebrated baby Jesus’ birthday, BOUGHT A HOUSE(!!), traveled to the mountains for a wedding while celebrating a new year… we’ve been busy! Before I get ahead of myself, I’ve got to go back and capture all of our Christmas. It sure was a good one.

We spent the Wednesday night before Christmas exploring the Lights at the Zoo and visiting Santa. NONE of my kids cried on Santa’s lap this year… and G and T kept repeating “ and mama, I wasn’t even scared!” That makes me want to cry. I’m done with crying Santa pictures foreverL Regardless, the zoo was wonderful…it was cold, but we bundled up and had fun looking at the lights, eating s’mores and seeing the big guy in red.

Thursday-Saturday before Christmas was “operation keeps the kids AWAY from the house” so Mikey and his awesome brother could build the playset! I can’t believe we did it, but we did! Spent the night out Thursday and Friday at grandparents house and by the time we got home Christmas Eve, it was dark and they couldn’t see outside. Huge success!

While staying away, we played at Lolly and Granddaddy’s, baked cookies and went to the trampoline park! I took off work Thursday and Friday and it was so nice to have those days to just PLAY with the kids.

On Friday night, we also enjoyed our 2^nd annual friend’s Christmas party…and SANTA stopped by! This is such a fun night and we are certainly making it a tradition! Of course when you have a ton of kids together, it’s not an “easy” night for the parents, but worth it nonetheless. For some reason, G and T were a little weary of Santa this night…weird. They didn’t cry or anything but didn’t really want to get too close. He read them a book, let them ask questions and then everyone got to sit in his lap and tell him what they wanted. Pretty adorable!

I think that’s enough pictures for one post…so we will leave it at that for now. Happy New year, everyone!

Zoo night

Playtime

Friends Christmas party!

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