Beach Trip

We left the day after Christmas for 4 nights at the beach. We enjoyed relaxing, indoor swimming, playing board/card games, walking on the beach, playing football on the beach, and went to the movie theatre to see Chipwrecked! Made us all look forward to spending even more time at the beach this summer...

Christmas Day

The children were SO excited to wake up on Christmas day to see what Santa had left! They both slept in Addison's bed on Christmas Eve, and had to call for us when they woke up so we could get the cameras ready and meet them!




Look what Santa left for Weston and Addison!










Stockings!




Weston and Addison pose with their cousins on Bob's side of the family...we enjoyed Christmas Day dinner and gift exchange at his sister's house!



And, finally, here is a video of our traditional "Happy Birthday, Jesus" song and cake!

Christmas Eve

Christmas posts always overwhelm me because I take SO many pictures on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day! My children are at SUCH fun, fun ages for Christmas and I want to capture all the fun in photographs for memories sake!

On Christmas Eve, we started the day going to church for Eve Service:



Then, we went to lunch with Grammie and Great Grandma:



After that, we came home and Addison took a nap while Daddy and Weston goofed off together and then we baked cookies for Santa!


Each year, we also put out reindeer food on Christmas Eve:




This year, while talking with Santa, he shared with us that Dasher really enjoys eating carrots, so of course, we had to leave some carrots out for Dasher!



Next up, was a delicious Christmas Eve dinner! I made a roast and veges and tried a new recipe off of Pinterest for garlic cheddar biscuits...they were delish!

(for this picture, we had to prop the camera on a side table and set the self timer on the camera, so that's why the angle is a little weird!)


On Christmas Eve, it is tradition to each open one present and it is always a new pair of Christmas pajamas!









We did something new this year...on top of the kids Christmas pajama packages, was a "Christmas Express ticket". On the back of the ticket, it explained for the children to go put their PJ's on and to meet us in the garage with their tickets for a special car ride. When they gave me their ticket, I punched smiley faces on them with a hole punch (remember the fun punches on the tickets from the Polar Express?!) and gave them peppermint sweet mints and we drove around in their PJ's looking at Christmas lights in our neighborhood!






And, finally, it was time to put cookies and milk out for Santa, take our traditional Christmas pj pictures, read our Christmas books, and get tucked into bed!









Next up...Christmas day pictures!

USC Basketball Game

I didn't get to blog about our fun time at a recent USC Gamecock basketball game until now, but last week we enjoyed cheering them on to a victory!