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.

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!