the holidays 2015

Our Christmas celebrations have kinda been spread out all over this year..  We've been battling with eye infections and the stomach bug.  Hopefully by 2015 we will all be healthy!  We started off by opening a few gifts at GJ and Papaw's a few days before Christmas.

{this picture cracks me up because it was suppose to be just the girls.  charlie is playing the part of a creepy photo bomber.}

{maeve loves josie and josie wants maeve to grow up and be big already.}

{opening presents!}

{he was excited about the talking jake for about 2 minutes.}

{sweetest girls.}

{the mattmanns}

{on the 23rd we went to visit mamaw hatfield.}

{we went out that night to celebrate my 31st birthday!} 

{christmas eve we headed to crossville to celebrate with the siscos.  a decent photo of these two is not possible these days.}

{we got asher a helmet to go with a special gift from his nana and poppy... he wanted to wear it in the car and quickly fell asleep.}

{nana and poppy got him a bike!}

{girlfriend and her elsa doll.}

{she loves her nana.}

{before heading to bed, we snuggled on the couch, ate some popcorn and watched the polar express of course!}

{santa came!}

{merry christmas morning!!!!!}

{singing happy birthday to jesus!  i had planned to sing over muffins but when my baker of a best friend brought over these yummy cinnamon rolls our plans changed.  thanks lauren!  they were so so delicious.}

{the sun came out on christmas so i took wild man outside.  i was hoping he would want to try and peddle but nope.  he just enjoys sitting on his new bike.}

{he then decided he wanted to go play on the "pirate ship" otherwise known as our play set.}

{little monkey.}

{poor papaw was sick on christmas but gj still came over for a few minutes to see us.}

{loving some of her new gifts.}

{we headed to the mattmanns house the day after christmas to give them our gifts.}

{josie b is a girl after my heart and loves all things school.  i LOVE it!!  i knew i wanted to get her an easel.  I had one growing up and it was probably my favorite thing ever.  she was super super excited.  i also gave her a bunch of some of my old school stuff.}

Merry Christmas!

christmas traditions :: new and old

I've always loved Christmas but having Asher and Maeve just makes everything more special.  We've added some new Christmas traditions this year and then continued with some we've done in the past.    Each year seriously gets better and better.

{we went to fantasy of trees and asher loved getting his face painted.}

{besides the fact that my face looks weird, i love this picture of us.}

{asher's first time getting a letter from santa! super cool and cannot wait to get one for each of them next year.}

{kingston christmas parade.  asher loved seeing daddy and his SFD girls out there!}

{even though it was raining, sister loved the parade.}

{arranging a magnetic santa and changing his outfits.}

{love getting matching christmas pjs.}

{decorating their own trees for their rooms.}

{making a gingerbread house.}

{visiting santa.  never a success.}

{going to christmas in a cave.}

{making christmas cookies.}

{our felt tree was up for the first little bit of december and then i stumbled upon this super cute nativity scene that i knew i had to have.}

{going to see the christmas lights in gatlinburg.}

we love december!!