Merry Christmas!

 

Not a creature was stirring...not even Sadie, Wrigley or Gizmo.

Santa came!

 

Merry Christmas!

 

Wrigley, as always, keeping watch over the loot from Santa.

(And waiting for his kids to come in the room) 

Lots of fun opening presents from Santa!

 

He's got a girlfriend now, time to smell good I guess :)

 

Lots of excited faces on Christmas morning:)

 

 

Santa knows books are still a favorite with Amelia.

 

joy

 

Santa knows Luke is happy with anything LSU related.

 

This face.  

Addison COULD NOT believe Santa brought Frost a cat bed! 

Mom and Dad could not believe it either.

 

Addison has been caring for a neighborhood cat for months.  He comes to her every day when she gets home from school and sometimes waits outside our door for her to come home (which our dogs just love as one can imagine).  She feeds the cat and loves on him.  I guess Santa, like Addison, has a heart for animals because Frost is the brand new owner of a cat tower.

 

Big girl purse for Big girl Amelia :) 

 

SEC pennants for Luke!

 

Books galore for Addison!

Thank you Santa!

Oh What Fun!

 

We made it to Christmas Eve and it was time to throw another epic Christmas Eve party for our church :)

Nell and I were super on point with our coordinating Christmas pants this year, high five!

 

The girls and their curls...Amelia did not have curls.

  Sad face.  

This is the first year Amelia did not sleep in pink rollers for Christmas Eve, I mean, I guess she is 16 but sniff, sniff.

 

Some of the "littles" checking out Jesus' Birthday cake.

 

Love these girls

 

How many kids can we fit on a trampoline?

Thankfully we had another gorgeous Christmas Eve weather day, everyone got to enjoy the outside and I did not have to worry about fitting 80 plus people in my house! 

 

All these cuties have turned into teenagers!

 

Sweet Amelia and Josh.

 

The Neffs and Boskovichs, Best Buddies Forever.

 

Amelia, Hayden and Mckenzie all grown up.

I sure love these three BIG! 

 

Real life family photo.

 

The best we got this year.

 

Me and my handsome hubs.

 

After church, time for the traditional matching Christmas jammies.

 

Addison LOVES this pose every year with her siblings. Amelia and Luke not as much, ha!

They tolerate it because it is Christmas.

 

Merry Christmas Eve!

Christmas is in the air!

 

We headed downtown for the Ocean Springs Christmas parade!

 

These two beauties with beautiful voices amazed us all with the annual Lessons and Carols Christmas concert.  One of my very favorite Christmas traditions at our church, worship through song with our youth and adult choir, string quartet and brass quartet, it is goose bump inducing!

 

These are Amelia's very best besties.

 

Amelia and Josh :) 

 

This is Amelia's physics project, Rube Goldberg.  This group spent countless hours designing this project and it was awesome.  Their physics professor agreed as they got almost a perfect score and 2nd place (out of 20+) voted on by their peers.  Also, a fun side note, they are all buddies from church so that was extra fun :)

 

December wouldn't be December without baking and decorating dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of Christmas cookies!  Addison and Luke and Stephen actually did help but by the day we got to the wreaths, they had ducked out!  

 

This is the family tree, Christmas is getting close when it starts to look like this!

Happy 43rd Birthday Stephen!

 

Stephen's favorite cake-yellow cake and chocolate frosting :)  

 

Happy Birthday Stephen!

We love you!

 

Addison wrote and performed a rap for Stephen about turning 43.  

It was amazing!

 

Happy Birthday!

Advent!

The church Advent Festival!

Addison and Christian can be found at the cookie decorating table every year :) 

Amelia was part of the live Nativity and what a perfect angel she was :) 

To continue the fun of the Christmas season, we took the kids (and their "friends") to the musical Elf!

We had a super fun night!