Christmas Day!!

This is the day I prepare for and wait for every year!  I LOVE Christmas!!

 Our tree with the presents before my husbands family arrived.

 Every year I get a picture of my kids in front of the tree!  We all had matching PJ pants!

 He ALWAYS wants to dab in a picture.  She always tells him "dabbing is dead!"

Santa finally came!  I had the toughest time getting Cale to want to go to bed.  He finally fell asleep at 1045! All the presents were wrapped and just waiting to come out of hiding!

 Playing with what was in his stocking!

 She loves these hats!

 Normally Mason lays right here but with all the kids trying to open presents he was a "little" in the way!  He wasn't happy when we made him move!

 Santa brought Cale a double decker bey blade stadium!

 Santa brought Kennedie cat Bob's!

 Cale had his back to me so I didn't get alot of pictures of him.  Normally we do one present at a time and watch as the person opens it, apparently Tim's family doesn't do it that way so I had to try and get my kids to slow down and let me take pictures of their reactions.  For me their reactions are the best part and what I look forward to on Christmas Day.

 She has been asking for a Zelda shirt FOREVER.  She was SO excited!

 So on our way to a wrestling tournament last weekend, I was telling Tim that my Aunt had sent us some genealogy for my grandmas side of the family.  We are traced back to Scotland 1750's.  He then told me he had always wanted to do one of those ancestry kits.  Score for me because I had already purchased him one!!!!

 Dad's in their natural habitat on Christmas morning!

 Mason finally warmed up to his new bed.  Thanks Santa!

Cale put together his new lego's!

We had a great Christmas!  I hope you had a great one too!

Week before Christmas!!!

It's the last few days before Christmas!  I'm not ready for the season to be over with yet!!

Here are some of our festive outfits from this week!  We have our Ohana Christmas Party this weekend so I'll have a separate entry with that because it will be JUST as epic, if not more so!

 First up - my work Christmas party!  I went with a Santa Theme.

I always come with options!!!

 I got her cute llama Christmas leggings from Walmart the night before and she wore them to school on "ugly sweater day" Tuesday. 

 The sweater she found at Ross and said she wanted it because it was "ugly" I actually thought it was cute!  It's super warm too!  I wore it the next day! :)

At her school if you have A/B's and have less than a few absences (I think you can have up to 3 if you have an A) you are exempt from your finals.  So because she had A's and B's and PERFECT ATTENDANCE she didn't have to go to school Wednesday, Thursday or Friday!  Wednesday morning she was really excited to wake up, eat breakfast and start drawing!

That night we finally were able to get the star on top of the tree.  Daddy was gone when we decorated it (and I feel I'm missing a TON of ornaments, but I'm too exhausted to search for them at this point), but it's their tradition to put the star at the top.  He used to prop her up on his shoulder or hold her above his head and she would bend over and place it.  That obviously is becoming a problem! :P

I have a picture of Cale lighting the tree as that's his job, but he is in his underwear!

Cale had his class party today.  He got a new shirt and wanted to wear lights.

I haven't noticed this week these towers and I did on my way to work this morning.  The drop towers (where the airborne trainee's practice with their parachutes) were lit up this morning!

Trees for Troops - Fort Benning 2018

This is my favorite event that my work puts on.  I LOVE volunteering to work it.

 Families from all over the country donate trees to "The Christmas Spirit Foundation" and then fedex ships them to Military Installations.  This year we received 500 trees to distribute.  Some years we have gotten 800-900.

 It's a fun event to work because I get to wear my christmas finest.  This year I choose a reindeer theme.

 I wore my reindeer lularoes that I got last year.  With my sparkle red toms.  I had a great soft brown dress I wore with it.  I thought I looked quite cute/festive!

 My husband facetimed me for his daily good morning call (since he is still gone, we don't do this when he is home).  He chuckled when he answered the phone and was dressed like this!

 Been working with John for 10 years.  We laughed because the sun hitting his name tag shining on his teeth made it look like an Orbit gum commercial.

I brought this hat because I didn't know how cold it would be.  I ended up just wearing it because it was so freakin cute! 

 

Oh man the truck finally got here.  It was stuck at the gate because it was graduation day for the basic trainee's, and there was ALOT of traffic.  Then on the 3 miles it takes to get from the gate to the field, he broke down.  They got him going again, and once on the field his truck just sank in the grass. He was spinning tires.  You can tell that they tried to pull him out but that didn't work.  So any of the detail or an employee that came with a truck rallied and we filled up all the beds and drove them to the set up point.

 I usually take Tim's truck this event because I'm taking a tree home or a friend without a truck's tree to their house when it's over. I was so thankful we had it today.

 Offloading the trees.

 We stand them up along the fencing and that's how the soldiers/family members pick them.  But they can't open them from the bundling.  It's kinda a surprise how they look when you get them home.

 Alot of fedex workers show up to help offload and carry trees to cars.

 Anther load in Tim's truck.

I mean because why not?  I love being festive!