Holiday Break

Ben and I took of several days during the holidays to spend time with the girls, families, and friends. Before Christmas I had my annual get together with my friends. This year we decided to do a brunch and exchange Christmas ornaments.

After brunch, Ben and I and the girls headed to North Augusta to spend some time with his parents. The next day was Christmas Eve, where we always go to Ben's aunt and uncle's house. We went to Mari's and Jason chruch for there Christmas Eve service and then went back to Mari and Jason's for dinner and to open presents. They got both the girls bikes for Christmas!!

That night we drove back home to do Santa at our house. Ben and I stayed up until 2:30 putting everything together. We got the girls a trampoline that took forever to put together (this is when I decided to take a nap). I couldn't get a great picture of all the there stuff or the trampoline. We of course had to leave some goodies for Santa.

Christmas day I of course woke everyone up. We got both girls up and made them wait out in the hall before we let them see everything that Santa has brought. They were sooo excited and it was so cute watching them run into the living room and see all of their stuff. We then of course spend forever trying to open everything that Santa has brought and the girls jumped and jumped until they couldn't jump anymore.

After opening the rest of our presents and getting dressed we then headed over to my parents house to do Christmas with them and my brothers. My parents got them a huge new doll house with tons of dolls that kept them super busy. The girls got some many toys from my parents, family, and friends. It had been so long since they had gotten new toys, the girls were just in heaven. We ate breakfast and hung out for awhile and then added to our next adventure.

We went to Ben's parents house, were there was even more presents to open. Of course we had to get out annual family picture at the top of the stairs.

The girls were pooped.... and the dogs...

We stayed there Christmas Day and headed back to Columbia the day after Christmas. We had to unpack, take down the Christmas tree, do some Christmas present exchanges, and get ready for Grayson's 2nd Birthday Party.

On Saturday, our baby G turned 2. We invited family and friends over for a pot painting party. The invitations were suppose to be flowers, course I'm not the most creative. Her cake, I did in the shape of a flower, I thought it turned out pretty good. We went to Lowe's and got lots of different size pots for everyone to decorate. My mom bought the paint, brushes, and cute little aprons for the kids.

After Grayson's party we had to get ready for the New Year. Wes, Laura, and Mason came into town and planned a little get together at the Riddle's house. We ate, watched football, shot fireworks, and burned our Christmas trees.

The girls stayed up until midnight with us and welcomed in the New Year. Overall Christmas and New Years was a little different this year, but we couldn't have asked for anything better. We had so much fun spending time with the girls and our friends and families. We are so lucky to have such a wonderful family and we welcome the New Year and all its adventures. Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.