Ohana Christmas Party

We celebrated Christmas with our Ohana last Saturday.  It was such a fun time!

 Since we have been an Ohana and everyone living in GA/AL (we all live right on the border - two families in GA and two in AL) I've made us ornaments.

 Training dummy became Santa and held all the secret Santa presents that we drew names for at Thanksgiving.

 Put the combat cubes together and made a table.

 I don't know why this is so blurry :( , we are missing one family that was at a wrestling tournament 2 hours away, trying to get back in time.  We brought two of their kids that stayed back with us.  As you can tell we take a theme seriously.

 My little family.

 We try to go youngest to oldest for the kids lining up for food, but this time some kids got in line and some didn't.  So it was first come first serve.  Aunties and Uncles jumped in where they could to help little ones get food.

 Time for Secret SANTA!

 Kids tearing into their presents!

 Cale got a steak and shake gift card and he was so excited!

 Kennedie got oreo's, external battery charger and a movie theater gift card!

 Kids playing bunco, or trying atleast!

 New leggings. They aren't my usual lularoe - but they were cute!

The adults playing bunco.  I truly love this group of people.  We are helping raise each others children, any one of these parents would run to help the minute we would need them.  Our kids have cousins that live in town and not far away and they get a sense of family and community even if we aren't related by blood.

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!