December Fun!

Well, we've had lots of Christmassy fun this month!    

I decorated most of the house the day before we went to the ranch for Thanksgiving, so when we came home, we got our new Christmas jammies and got to work decorating the tree as a family!  

Every year we get the kids a new ornament that represents something about them from that year.  Reid got a baseball glove...

Georgia Kate got ballet shoes...

and Rhett got an ice cream sundae (to go with his birthday theme).  

Then it was December 1st!

You better not pout, you better not cry...

Georgia Kate went to her best school friend's birthday party.  She talks about Faith all the time and it's been so fun to see her form her own friendships for the first time.  

Mumsie and Popsie treated us to a night at Santa's Wonderland!  Inflatable slides, a petting zoo, live music, hot chocolate, and a private carriage ride through the lights...  We had such a wonderful time!! 

The kids had their Christmas programs!

Georgia's first preschool program and Reid's last...

Baby brother loved cheering on his older siblings! :) 

We changed things up for our small group Christmas party this year and went to Escape the Room and had dinner at Maggianos!  It was such a fun night!  

We met up with Alli and Perry at the Second Baptist train display one Friday.  The kids always love this!  

Georgia Kate had a little mini Christmas performance at dance.

Sweet Emery is in the class next door at the same time. :)

Love these four...

I got to attend the kids' Christmas parties.  I always love spending time with them in their classrooms!  

GK's class got to wear pajamas on party day.  She was sooo excited about this!

Reid's class did pajamas one day the week before.  

I love these gifts so so much.  They were both just as excited about the wrapping paper as they were the actual gift, so it needed to be documented as well. ;) 

After school parties, Chris took the big kids to the ranch for a couple of days where they did things like play in the mud and wash "Reid's Ride".  They had a blast, as usual!  

Rhett and I spent a couple of days at Mumsie and Popsie's house.

We had our annual Christmas lunch at Brookwood with the Myers girls!

Our friends the Allens hosted a wonderful party for our small group kids and Santa and Mrs. Claus came!  Lindsey took pictures of all of the kids with Santa (more to come) and then Santa read from Luke to the kids and then sang Christmas songs with them.  It was so special!  There was also cookie decorating, reindeer food making, and lots of playing and laughing! :)

We made gingerbread houses!

I told myself that we were going to say no to some things and not over schedule our month, and I feel like we did that.  While we did have a lot of pre-planned fun, we also had a lot of time at home to enjoy Christmas music, Christmas movies, Christmas books, a little bit of Christmassy weather, and of course, lots of cute Christmas clothes! :)