Christmas Week....

Warning...another picture heavy post!

This was a fun, but busy week at home. We tried to get in as much as possible without killing ourselves. We many not have gotten to everything or to everyone, but we tried and we had fun!

Monday night we continued our tradition of driving around and looking at Christmas lights with the Youngbloods. Only three of the four kids went this year, Caroline is not quite ready for the craziness! Next year we are going to have to rent something large to haul our crowd...maybe we can talk our parents into tagging along too!

The minivan was packed!
Wednesday we worked on our gingerbread house that Beignet delivered from Santa! Ella came over to help us decorate. I am surprised that Allison could get them to sit still for this picture - I think they ate more candy than they put on the house!

And...this is how it turned out!

Christmas Eve (day)

We had a nice relaxing day...Jimmy and Lynn came over for lunch and then it was off to church.

Mary Virginia is teaching Jaja how to play on the ipad while we were getting ready for lunch!

And John Bay was just being his silly self...

Children's Christmas Eve Service - Come See The Baby

We love to see the kids act out the Christmas story and to hear Dr. Furr play his guitar and sing!

John Bay didn't even make it to the singing...

And finally...getting ready for Santa and the reindeer. We put out the cookies and the kids threw the reindeer food into the yard! I hope the reindeer can spot their treats!

Merry Christmas!


Elfcapades...the final adventures of Beignet the elf (until next year)!

He left us a note with a Christmas countdown!

He stole Gigi's Cheerios to leave us a little message!

Hot Cocoa Love!

Playing Cards with Friends

Panties/Underwear Raid

(There is a guilty elf on the top of the tree - along with the pullup star)

Candy High - Elves Rule

Making Cookies - Mary Virginia and I were going to decorate cookies on Christmas Eve, but Beignet beat us to it...he left a plate full of cookies with messages for everyone!