A Life Filled With Love & Joy

End of December

The rest of December was just as busy and looking back I can't believe we managed to get it done. Somehow, Alan and I survived and the kids had a blast so it was worth it!

Cuddles after watching Boss Baby and realizing that

siblings are awesome :)

Gingerbread men time!

A visit to Norton lights in Wells

All of the classmates treats and some things for

the teachers!

George making more cookies with his classmates

Caroline speaking during her school's

annual Celebration Assembly

First day of vacation and she is headed to

see the Nutcracker with her sister Brownies.

I was so bummed to have missed this, but Mom was told

to slow down post-op.

Caroline watching her annual video from Santa :)

George watching his. He was pretty naughty the days leading up

to Christmas and he made the Naughty list, thankfully he

pulled it together with help from his family to make the Nice list.

No worries, he was really not worried at all, unlike his sister :)

Another night decorating cookies

The day after Christmas there was plenty of snow and Alan

helped make the kids a sledding hill.

Mommy's still not so sure about this :/

George enjoying his new dry erase markers from Santa

The kids playing so so so nicely once Daddy went

back to work and we finished out the rest of the vacation week.

George's dinosaur egg hatching

I couldn't resist :)

Christmas morning! Always so exciting. The kids get some sleep, but I barely sleep that night. They were good and waited at the top of the stairs like I asked them. I already forget when they got up, I think around 6am? Maybe 5:30, a little earlier than normal :) We opened stockings and then some of the presents while our french toast baked in the oven. After breakfast we were back at the presents. A little play time and then we cleaned up and got ready for Nana and Grampy to arrive.

Santa brought a bicycle!

So eager for us to open his gift from school :)

Honestly, put it all to the side, these gifts and

their eagerness for us to open their gift that neither of us

knows about makes it alllll worth while. Love these kids!

Hugging her books

Helping Daddy open one of his gifts

Hugs for Mommy after opening my gifts :)

Lucky Momma

Opening their gifts to each other.

They did well and they both continue to love their gifts.

Santa brought a Google home!

Wonder Crew construction crew! He went running upstairs

to get his hat so he could match :)

Flying her drone

Enjoying his grapes from Santa

Painting with light from Gramma

A total white out caused a hiccup in our plans.

Sadly, Great Gram, Aunt Barb and Uncle Rick

couldn't join us but safety first! The kids Facetimed

with them while they opened their gifts

Her own watch/fit bit from Nana and Grampy

A little before bed game of Jenga

Curling up in his new big boy blanket from

Aunt Barbara and Uncle Rick

Christmas Eve

Christmas eve was a pretty easy day. We got the house ready for Christmas and hung out. Since we were taking it easy we didn't do any baking, and instead relied on some more Hannaford pre-cut Gingerbread men to decorate. We made a few things for Nana's Christmas Eve party at her house, but otherwise our to-do list was short which was fine by us! We still continued some traditions though...