Saturday, January 26, 2019

Christmas 2018

This Christmas was wonderful - nothing out of the ordinary just full of family, friends, traditions and food.

annual father son tradition of riding the Santa Express


Christmas ruffle cuteness

hot chocolate and muffins at starbcuks just cause :)

Charlotte left a note for our elves asking which one was named Jingle and which one was named Bell



a crazy frost we got one morning - they called it "frozen fog"

my first gingerbread cake - turns out I dont really like gingerbread cake but it sure looked pretty!



annual tradition of the historic holiday tour of homes downtown

our first year going to The Living Christmas Tree, we loved it!

first time getting gel nails done :)

they loved the Christmas village i started collecting this year


the section that Cooper decorated :)



Yule Log cake for Christmas Eve from a local bakery that was DELISH

Seeing the Nutcracker ballet

making them wait on the stairs for a picture before seeing what Santa brought

the fam

we played lotssssss of games and here is Bean collecting her winnings :)

showing off the goods

the aftermath


at Christmas Eve service Cooper found the small yellow pencils they have in the pews, he thought it looked like a construction man pencil and spent a long time getting tucked behind his ear. When we asked for a picture this was the smile we got, I have never seen him smile like this and it made us laugh so hard. He has done it a few times since and seems to be his "picture smile"
On to the new year!

xoxo
Ashlea