this Christmas

Just like yours, has been busy.  Didn't this Christmas season just fly by!!!  I haven't posted much because where did the time go?  So, here are a ton of phone pics of this Christmas season...

LOVE spending time with these crazies!

Hip Hip Hooray!  We had a "snow day"!

They were totally mesmerized by The Sound of Music.

Grace and I spent our "snow day" making paper snowflakes.

We FROZE and had a fun time at the Christmas Parade with some of our favorite people!

A girl that John teaches with gave us her Tigers' tickets and we all got to go!

I think he was pumped to have his kids watching the Tigers with him!

I think she is part elf!

"Help!"  He's fallen and he can't get up!

Grace and I went to our church's Christmas program and Starbucks!

At this Happy Birthday, Jesus party, we made a nativity, decorated cookies, and ate birthday cake!

We snuggled and watched a favorite Christmas movie!  Smiling's my favorite!!!

We finally got to meet sweet baby June!

Carter was Spiderman.

Our Christmas elf, Grace, was at it again!!!

We crafted.  With glue.

We went to our Candlelight Christmas Eve Eve service.

Then, we got into our Christmas jammies, grabbed a warm drink, turned on our favorite Christmas jams, and looked at Christmas lights.

Pretty Christmas lights are...well, pretty.  But, the tackier they are the "funner"!

One more day until Christmas!!!

our little christmas cow

Grace was a cow in our church's children's Christmas program (aka: The Singing Christmas Bush).  She did a wonderful job singing about our Savior's birth!  I'm sure the cows were singing when baby Jesus was born in their stable on that first Christmas day.  Don't you think so?

All creation, come praise the name of the LORD.  Praise his name alone.  The glory of God is greater than heaven and earth.

{Psalm 148:13}

the halls are decked

a few of my favorite moments in our christmas home...

so, we saw santa

grace and carter were super excited to go see santa.  grace, i think, was nervous as usual. carter was just crazy.  but, the nerves and craziness created this sweet moment. 

both kiddos happily sat in santa's lap and asked for one gift each.  grace asked for a rainbow loom and carter wants a train table.

santa was begging to know what else they wanted, but there was nothing else.  one gift and that's all.

santa did give them 2 pieces of candy and they were totally cool with that!

grace even gave santa a hug, i mean, grace even let santa hug her!  this sweet girl has come a long way over the past couple of years!!! 

dear santa,

we wrote letters to santa while we ate cookies and drank frozen hot chocolate.  carter asked for a puppy and a train table.  grace wants a rainbow loom.  this is good handwriting practice too!  you want santa to be able to read your letter.  right?