My favorite day of the year has arrived and we couldn't be more excited!! Our house smells like a mix of Chex Mix and cookie dough - strawberry pretzel salad has been made for our Christmas Eve celebration tonight with my extended family and breakfast casserole is soaking in the fridge for tomorrow morning, Christmas music is blaring, the Elf on the Shelf movie is on TV right now and we are READY!! I needed one more dose of Christmas shopping so I just got back from a last minute shopping spree to Target - despite the few Scrooges out there beeping their horns - it made me sooo excited! The girls are counting down the hours until Santa's big arrival and we are saying our final goodbyes to Snowflake until next year! I am loving the joy in the girls faces and voices as we track where Santa is right now (Russia) on the Elf on the Shelf's facebook page!! :) Hooray for Christmas!
This has been an especially fun Christmas season for us - the girls are at such fun ages and have thoroughly enjoyed every minute since Thanksgiving. The Saturday before last was one of my favorite days so far - it was a day filled with a morning birthday party for Ali and then a family lunch at the Varsity and then a family trip to go see Arthur Christmas. So fun to all be together! After that, we missed out on fun dinner plans with friends to stay home and bake/ice Christmas cookies and make Chex mix...it was the perfect day!
Since then, we have been busy with the Nutcracker, girls nights out, nights out to Christmas parties, a precious 4 year old Christmas play at school (where my precious 5 year old had the last line in the play!)...
Ballet and tumbling Christmas parties/present exchanges for both of the girls... (precious!)
A girls only trip to Callaway Gardens for an overnight getaway to see the Fantasy in Lights (wish I had a video of Rhodes' commentary throughout the jolly trolley - it was priceless!)...and no one got sick this year...extra bonus!
Spend the night parties with Santa Claus pancakes...
And, Santa Surprises at church and a special date with my and my current baby to a cute Gingerbread party!
Both of the girls especially loved Santa Surprises b/c Rhodes got to go upstairs to FUSE for the first time (from the nursery) - they loved getting to be together and were so giddy when I picked them up...makes a Mama very happy! :) After we picked them up, Ryan and I loaded up the girls and headed to Atlanta to the Center for Puppetry Arts to see Rudolph - it was a precious show! We headed back to get ready to have the Holles over and our favorite non-related babysitter, Ms. Joa - so Mama and Daddy could attend their last two parties of the week that night! After having at least one thing every single night that week since Monday, it was a nice grand finale to a fun, tiring week! :)
We have had lots of fun and the next two days are going to be filled with even more! Merry Christmas everyone! May your Christmas be filled with love, laughter and lots of joy! :)
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