Merry Christmas!

Well, things have been a whirlwind around here, but we sure did enjoy a wonderful Christmas! Here are some of the highlights:

Mimi came on Friday and we went to Holiday in the Park at Six Flags








We went to Grandma and Bill's house in Athens.









Santa was very good to us! We had our Christmas on Christmas Eve morning since we had other plans for Christmas day.











We had Christmas with Opa and Nana (and a about a million other people :))









Nonna and Papa came to visit and we enjoyed an evening with Kelly and the boys and Meme.









On Sunday, we had about 30 people from the Ard Family over for lunch. It was crazy but fun.


















Whew! Now are exhasted! :) We are SOOOOOOOOOOOOO thankful to have such a wonderful family and are very glad that we got to spend time with everyone this year! We are blessed!!

Doing some Decorating!

I have been wanting a new tree ever since we moved to our last house that had tall ceilings in 2003. Then, when we moved to Guam, we were thankful for our small skinny tree. This year, we have tall celings again and I really wanted a new tree and I found THE perfect one!! It's HUGE and gorgeous!!! It's 9 ft tall and has 1800 lights and I Love it!! We all had a wonderful time decorating it tonight. The only problem came when it was Allie's long anticipated turn to put the angel on the top and she couldn't reach it! She was too scared to let her Daddy pick her up, so Adysen took her turn. Adysen couldn't exactly get it straight, so Dad had to fix it. I think we need a taller ladder for Christmas. We also think our angel SHRUNK!! She looks SO tiny up there!!! :)

Happy Thanksgiving!!

I know that people say it all the time, but we are truly amazed at how much we have to be thankful for this year!! Here are some pictures of our Thanksgiving fun. We are blessed with such a wonderful family and we are thankful for the ones we got to see this Thanksgiving and also for the ones that we didn't get to be with. We had lots of relaxing times and the girls had a great time with their cousins!!