Merry Christmas!!

We had an AWESOME Christmas!!! Besides having to say goodbye to our great friends Aunt Jess and Uncle Todd, it was a fantastic month (they are moving to Seattle for Aunt Jess' job) filled with ornament exhanges, cookie exchanges, visits with Santa, crazy Elves on the Shelf (Jingle and Elvis) and much more! We are truly blessed!

 Our annual photo shoot for the Christmas card

 

 

 

 

  Elvis and Jingle came back to make sure Jack and Gia were good boys and girls!

 

Gia loved our new addition to our outside decorations :)

 the crazy elves even got into the marshmallows!

Our first Santa sighting at breakfast with Santa

 

 Our 1st annual ornament exhange - hopefully there will be a 2nd annual!

 dang elves into the cookies! you can't see it great but Jingle is lifting Elvis into the cookie box!

testing the cookies

 Aunt Jess took a job with Amazon in Seattle so we went bowling and then came back to our house for a farewell party....Gia and RJ (her new BFF)

 El and Jack

 their first ever photo booth - they did pretty good!

 Another Santa sighting right in our house! All the kids except Gia loved it! 

She warmed up a little eventually :)

 

 sleepover with El <3 br="">

Another Santa sighting at !Chrismas at the McNeeces!

 

Christmas Eve at our house with the Williams clan

Gia helped me get ready

 

 Gia loved her Frozen hat from Gmom and Gdad

 but she REALLY loved her waitress dress up outfit!

and their new sleds!

 the Rudolf nose was a big hit too :)

 Ethan!

 

 

 

 feeding the reindeer with our neighbors, Charley and Bella

 goof balls - so excited!

 

Santa came!

 Xbox One for Jackson

 

and a trampoline for Gia

 

 

Nana, Pops, Aunt Kristin and Uncle Joey came for Christmas breakfast

 

 then we headed to Calvert County to celebrate with the Wilands/Schwabs

 Uncle John broke open some super cool rocks

 Santa AGAIN!

 

 loving their gifts

 Thank you to everyone who made our Christmas so special!! Happy New Year!