Christmas Eve

We headed back to our old town to see some friends on Christmas Eve!

We started off by going to visit Kelly, Jason, Addie and Brooks:

Parker and Brooks

Taylor and Addie... they've been friends since pre-K!

Then, we went to see Monica, Tim and Raegan to continue our annual Christmas cookie decorating par-tay:

Now THAT'S some talent, right there.

Whoa!

We played the Saran Wrap game... so much fun!

Afterwards, we went to our old church to go to the 4:00 Christmas Eve service.  It was SOOOO good to see everybody!  No pictures here, but we had a great time catching up with old friends.

We then drove the 1.5 hours back home and headed to our neighbors' for dinner.  We had a great time hanging out with them!

Opening presents from them!

Then, we headed back home.  It was getting late, but each kiddo got to choose a present to open:

They told the elves (yes, we accumulated another one!) goodbye, Taylor left a note for Santa, and we put out cookies for Santa. 

Hoping Santa will come visit us tonight!

Pre-Christmas Shenanigans

We've been doing some fun Christmas-y activities for a couple of weeks now.  Here's some of the fun:

Gingerbread House night at their school:

Taylor's class activities:

Making reindeer food

Her buddies at a Christmas chorus concert

Class party!

Parker's class party:

It's finally Christmas break!

Celebrating at Dunkin Donuts with friends.

Going to see this cool house that does a light show.  It was awesome!  It lasted about 30 minutes.  This is us waiting...

Salt dough ornaments

Gingerbread house time

Christmas cards!

Our Christmas tree:

Our awesome neighbors had an airplane-themed decorated yard (he worked for Delta for 20 years) and check out what they put on the airplanes:

The runway

Speaking of our sweet neighbors, they had this arrangement sent to us:

Our lit house:

J-O-Y

Our 7th annual JOY picture!

2018

And the previous 6...

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012