Merry Christmas!
A very Merry Christmas from our family to yours! We had a wonderful first Christmas in Alabama and hope your family had a very blessed, restful holiday season. This past week has been filled with lots of sickness, but we were thankfully able to fit in a lot of fun before we got hit with some pretty nasty colds.
I finished finals in time to come home on Mom's birthday. To celebrate, Mom had run a marathon with Ethan the weekend before. We made her a yummy birthday dinner (which we unfortunately forgot to take pictures of)
I brought my roommate, Miriam, home with me for the first few days of break. We packed our days with lots of fun activities. We took Miriam to our new favorite hiking spot, Rainbow Mountain Trail.
Christmas Cookie Decorating!
Brandan was sad that we wouldn't get to go to Grandma's for cookie decorating this year, but she mailed him a package of cookie dough and decorations. When I made them with him he got a little teary and said it just wasn't the same as doing them with Grandma and that the onions were making him cry...
Aidan got his very first pair of glasses. He looks so handsome in them!
Baxter and Cade are inseparable, and they always tell us the same stories. This year they became convinced that our neighbor's inflatable Santa was 'dead' when he deflated 😂
We always give gifts to Mom and Dad as siblings. We made Dad a homemade 'tool box', complete with Sam Adams, a Redbox gift card, coffee, truffles, and a key-chain that says, "If Dad can't fix it, no one can!"
The boys pooled their money to buy Mom and Annalee doll representing our 'pilgrimage' from NH to AL. It was such a sweet gift!
Baxter and Cade's favorite book and TV show is "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie." Their favorite Christmas gift was matching mice and cookies.
Here are some of our past Christmas posts. It's hard to believe we have been blogging for ten years now!
