Holiday Happenings

We have been busy with a ton of fun holiday events! We started this past Thursday with a visit to Town Brookhaven (a village of shops and restaurants in our city). 

We were able to visit with Santa (although Maggie would only wave from afar) and even take a sleigh ride around the village. It was a fun way to kick off the holiday season.

Our next big event was the 4th Annual Thanksgivmas hosted by the Burkes this year. We combined Thanksgiving and Christmas this year since the weekends around Thanksgiving are always so busy. Everyone brought a dish to share, and we added a gift swap this year. I ended up with Robin's gift- a Christmas candle that I am burning right now and a turquoise necklace. She ALWAYS finds the best gifts, so it was a no-brainer to pick her present!

Tuttle and Maggie enjoyed coloring and playing with Charlie's toys. Our group of babies keep growing and growing. We cannot wait to add Aunt Peach and Uncle Drew's little girl next year!

We are committed to attending church this holiday season, so we successfully made it today. Maggie is now insisting that she attend "Big Church" each week, and she is so good and quiet that we love the extra company. She is happy sitting in Daddy's lap with snack cup of Cheerios. (Maggie wore my childhood handmade smocked dress to church today.) Tuttle proudly showed us his Christmas stocking drawing when we picked him up from his Pre-K classroom.

Tuttle has BEGGED me every day since we picked up our tree to decorate it. I wanted Jay to be at the house when we finally pulled out the decorations, so we promised Tuttle and Maggie that we would finish the tree today.

The tree lights almost made me cancel Christmas this year! First I put them on backwards, so there was no way to plug them in. Then I restrung them to discover that a ton of the lights were burnt out even though I checked them beforehand. When I was ready to throw the tree out the window, Daddy came to the rescue and went to TWO different stores to find new lights. After I FINALLY went through eight boxes of lights to decorate the tree, Tuttle and Maggie had a chance to help with the ornaments. Tuttle took the job very seriously, and the tree turned out beautifully.

We still need to add the Twelve Day of Christmas ornaments (with accompanying song by Daddy) and the Christmas train around the base, but our home officially has the most important decoration done. Even Bockle was happy to admire the tree.

We are looking forward to many more holiday adventures! Merry Christmas!!