December Memories

On Lydia's 5th Birthday!

December at our house always involves alot of celebration! Lydia's birthday is on the 19th and Christmas is on the 25th! My sister lives out of town so we celebrate Christmas with her whenever she can come in during the month (normally the first part of December) therefore it seems like every week my kids (especially Lydia) are opening presents for one thing or another!! It's always super fun though and I'm always sad when December ends! Here are some highlights of our December celebrations!


At our Annual Family Christmas Reunion
This is a picture of all the twins in our family!
There are 5 sets here (only 1 identical) 

Lydia's Birthday Celebration 

with family for turning 5!

The very homemade-looking Birthday Cake I made

 Our Gingerbread House!

After several attempts of Elijah being silly and I keep saying, "Smile  nice Elijah!" This is Lydia's solution!

Our Christmas Eve Celebration!

Working hard to figure this out!

So excited to get all of Princess Barbies from her Pappaw George!

After Christmas with Pappaw George on Christmas Eve
we made a Happy Birthday Jesus Cake!

We left Jesus cake & milk for Santa
and 8 carrots for the reindeer (Lydia's idea)!

After Santa's Visit!

Christmas Morning!

Elijah loves his new guitar!

Andy even got in on the guitar playing!

Our dog, Sarah Cassie

(We call her Cassie, but Lydia calls her Sarah.. hence the double name!)

They were so excited to have our dog, Cassie. to spend
Christmas with this year!

For Christmas Cassie got a new bed and a new bone

She guarded it with all her heart...

She even slept with it


We had the most wonderful Christmas this year!

 We feel so blessed and so grateful for so many precious December memories!!