December Recap {2018}

Testing, testing.... so yeah, I totally didn't mean to take a 4 month blogging break but yep, it happened! No real reason other than I am just busy with life and blogging was obviously last on the list. But,  I still need to recap our December!!  It's my favorite time of the year and I always tell myself to soak up the moments and even though I do, it still flies by.

We went downtown to see Santa and have lunch at the Walnut Room. I was a little bummed because the Santa was clearly younger than the previous year and Brayden noticed.  He obviously knows there are plenty of helper Santas but we were all convinced the last year Santa was the REAL Santa.

 

       

               

We had our annual cookie/pierogi day and made a bunch of yummy stuff!!!

 

 

We went and saw the zoo lights and had perfect weather!

 

I hosted another family craft day and love what we made!

We drove around to look at lights in our jammies, drinking hot chocolate - the kids LOVE this so much

We built our annual gingerbread house and managed to only get a small headache LOL

 

Avery had her last preschool winter performance and I was so present knowing this. I may have shed a few tears too

We celebrated a few Christmas's

and our elf sent us off with a North Pole breakfast!!

 

Christmas Eve night we celebrated first at our house with my family then headed to my aunts

Christmas morning we were woke VERY EARLY with excited kiddos! We got a few more minutes of sleep then it was downstairs to see all the goodies! The kids were all so excited and thankful for what they got which always makes us so happy.

 

 

Later in the day we went to church, then my in laws to celebrate some more.  It was a great day!

NYE we went to my BIL & SIL's house and feasted on delicious food and yummy drinks and actually made it to midnight!! woohoo!

 

 and that's how our 2019 concluded!! I cannot even believe how far we are into 2019 that this all seems like a distant memory already! but we had an amazing 2018 and I truly hope for the same in 2019!!

Girl Chat {December 2018}

Happy Thursday!! It's the last month of our Girl Chat linkup! It's crazy it's been an entire year, just another way to see how fast time goes.


This month is all about your favorite ornaments - so grab our graphic and link up below!




I have many favorite ornaments (even more than I listed below!)


Brayden & Ella both made this in 4yr old preschool so of course I love  them!

 

I have a Santa & Rudolph handprint for each of the kids, these are some of my favorite because I love their little hands!

 

Brayden made this one in 2nd grade, so sweet

This was from our first Disney trip where we had the BEST time

My best friend gave this one to me the year Rick and I got married and I still love it

These wooden shoes are from a cute store in Mi during one of our family vacas

This one is from the cutest store in Anna Maria

The kids and I made these snowman handprints a couple of years ago, I just love cute kid ornaments!

This is from our 2nd family vaca to Disney (I can't wait to get back!!)

And lastly, this one is of my Grandma who passed in 2014. I was very close to her and so was Brayden (Ella was only 2 and only vaguely remembers her, and Avery was only a couple months old when she passed) - it's very sweet every year when we take this out of the box, Brayden always wants to hang it and he always sheds a few tears and we have a special moment where we talk about her and I give him the biggest hug.

I love ornaments so today is going to be fun reading through all the posts!

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