Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas.

My children made it on the nice list again this year!

Sweater Party 2011

I almost forget to post about the sweater party.

Thought I'd slip in a collage of my faves along with a list of some of the memories.

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EVERYBODY!

chicken feet

Riggs Rigging the awards

Rissa... the jello bartender

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shotskis

By the sound of this list...

it was a wild party.

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

Ok... 

Let's start with Thanksgiving... 

I'd say that was the beginning of the 

Most Wonderful Time of the Year!!!

Like usual... we did the Turkey Trot (no pictures though)

then I joined Mandy (Jon's Fiance... blog post and pics coming soon), 

and watched the annual Mud Bowl... 

it was rainy and cold but our hot totties kept us warm.

 Then we were off to Aunt Cindy's for an early dinner...

Where Caitlyn took over a hundred pictures on self timer... 

they turned out like this

...and this...

...and even this...

Then we went to the Riggs for a movie and dessert. 

 Thanksgiving... done!

♥♥♥

December has been filled with something on our calendar every single day and night.

Including things like...

 Hunting for our tree in the rain and wind storm of 2011

 Waiting afterwards for Santa who probably got caught in the storm... so he never made it.

 Decorating both trees...The kids helped a lot this year... 

 So a lot of my ornaments turned out like this...

 The kids were in 2 Christmas Pageants this year... one for preschool and one for church.

 Ashton was a donkey for both and Caitlyn was an Angel for one and Mary for the other.

Both had speaking parts and she memorized and recited her lines PERFECTLY

And let's not forget our annual Holiday Sweater Partay!

 More self timer shots... courtesy of Caitlyn

 This year we tried something new... shotskies. Boom!

 Collage 

Group Photo

The morning after... self timer photo... by Caitlyn.

 We baked 144 cut out cookies using my Grandmas recipe...

 Is that Betty Crocker... Martha Stewart... or Erin Riggs?!?

Then... while decorating all those cookies... 

SANTA was peaking in our windows

 ... checking to see if the kiddos were being naughty or nice.

 More self timer pics of the kids with their favorite friends. 

 silly

goofy

 fun

The best!

♥♥♥

There's still more to go...

Including...

 Caitlyn as Mary

 Caitlyn as a Ballerina Slug

 She was so perfect... I cried.

 I think this brings us to present day where Ash's sister got some deal on Living Social for a photo shoot...

A few other things this holiday season has involved, but not captured on camera are:

Basketball practices

Open House at our Pastor's house

work Christmas parties

church Christmas pasrties

My Holidork Sweater Collection at work.

♥♥♥

And coming up in this last week before Jesus' big celebration is:

Zoolights

Caroling with the kids group at church

Bunco with my ladies group

Bunco with Ashley's family (one of my favorite Holiday Traditions)

and the making of a ton of  Christmas Eve and Christmas Memories!!!

My life may be busy, but I sure L♥VE it!