December 1st
Everyone is always excited to kick off the Christmas season with our annual hot chocolate party, first Advent reading, and first gift.
December 9-10
We started birthday celebrations with a birthday eve gift because as parents even our birthdays don't seem to belong solely to us. Tomorrow Hazel and Evie are cheering at their 1st of 3 basketball games which Brandon graciously agreed to attend on his birthday.
We hid cards around the house so that Daddy could find them in the morning. Some were more sneaky than others. Hazel picked May's food bin.
I finally got Brandon on board with a freebee. Free Starbucks on your birthday!!! Although you should always order the largest size you can to get the most bang for your buck ;) He still has a few things to learn evidently.
Here we go Eagles!!!
Cheer may have pushed us to the limit this evening as the first game went really late pushing our game much later than I'd expected and I hadn't fed anyone because I still wanted to have Brandon's birthday dinner at home. One of these days I'll realize you can't have it all but I just keep trying.
We sure do love you! Can't imagine anyone else loving all of us the way you do and we are so so very thankful for your determination and dedication. Thank you for giving your all to provide for us and care for each of us whether that be twinkie snuggles or making our teenager laugh or helping the boys with baseball or settling the Nut or seeking out Evie or encouraging me... you mean EVERYTHING to us!!!! Happy Birthday!!!
It seems often hard to please this one these days but the wood stove she LOVES!!!
December 16th
Christmas Spirit
When you get fluffy Christmas socks from your teacher you wear them ALL THE TIME!
So much Christmas baking!!!
So much gift wrapping!
Preschool Christmas Party
Aubrey
Maddie
Christmas Stockings
We don't do stockings the traditional way. The way my mom did them was we opened one little gift each day as we counted down until Christmas. So that's the way we do them. Most days its just a little piece of candy but every couple of days I mix in some other fun little thing. Last year I bought these Christmas lego sets on Temu which were a bit maddening because the pieces were so small and the instructions very confusing, but we did eventually get them built and the kids loved it and said it was one of their favorite things last Christmas. So I found some more to add to our collection this year.
If I can find something all 7 kids are excited about doing I'm all in!!!
December 23rd
A Surprise Gift for Daddy
This year we came up with idea of doing something for Daddy that he hasn't had time to get around to. Brandon LOVES his goats and they've been needing their shed mucked out for awhile so the kids and I ran to Coastal, bought straw, and the big 3 mucked it out and spread some nice cleaning bedding for them.
These girls entertained the goats while Sadie, Wyatt, and Cooper worked.
Sadie and Anna
Happy Goats
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