Christmas Eve

We woke up Chrismas Eve and had our family Christmas in Ohio!

Colin was just figuring out opening presents. He would open a present then attempt to open the next present while holding on to the previous toy.

It was a fun morning

We kissed Elfie goodbye and hit the road for Tennessee

Almost home

We spent Christmas Eve with Kory's family! It was a great night of good food, singing, and family!

Colin was kept entertained

And lots of cousin love!

We sprinkled our reindeer food for Santa

Left Santa cookie dough ice cream and a coke!

Such a fun Christmas Eve

 

 

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Christmas Party

Kaitlin’s class had a Christmas Party and PJ day for the last day of school before break!! Kaitlin was so excited!! 

Kory surprised her and came to the party so it was extra fun!

Kaitlin’s class did gingerbread house decorating, cookie decorating and a coloring book exchange! It was the best day!

Kailtin loves a good party game and pin the nose on the reindeer was extra fun! 

Pretty sure she had a great time!! 

Look who just Checked in

Kaitlin was in our church children’s choir and they had 4 performances over the past week. The choir has been such an amazing experience and it was such a blessing this Christmas season!

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It was a country theme and Kaitlin loved she got to wear a cowgirl hat 

Kaitlin was the youngest in the choir but she was never nervous and had such a fun time! 

We noticed Kaitlin wore her hat just like Jessie from Toy Story 

 

Kaitlin Christmas performance

Santa Cow

This is our annual Santa Cow picture!!!! Kaitlin use to not be a fan of Santa but she loved Santa Cow!!!! And that is how traditions get started!!!!  Crazy this is our 5th year with Santa Cow!!! 

 

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Breakfast with Santa

Our Chickfila had a special breakfast with Santa!!! They made everything so special with tablecloths and even a band playing Christmas music! It was such a sweet morning and Kaitlin had a great time!! 

She was so excited!!!! we had a wonderful breakfast 

Mrs Claus and Santa were so so sweet!!! They talked and talked and talked!!!! 

I love this face of pure joy 

Colin is not a fan of Santa 

This was the cute list for Santa!!! 

We had a great morning and Kaitlin has not stopped talking about it all week!!! 

O Christmas Tree

We had a fun Christmas outing when we saw Santa!! Kaitlin got her haircut while the boys waited for a table at Cheesecake Factory!! Colin looks so grown up here!!! 

We had a wonderful dinner and it was so nice and festive

They had a huge Christmas tree and Colin was very impressed 

Such a fun family night 

And we got Cheesecake to go!!! Really the perfect night! 

Zoo lights

It was 60 degrees a few weeks back and Kory and I both thought the same thing…. Zoo Lights!! It was a high percentage of rain later in the night but we risked it!!! It was heavy drizzle but at least it was warm!!!! 

This tree is amazing!!! It had all animal print bows! 

The zoo looked beautiful and it is such a fun tradition! Kaitlin did like a few lights this year but it is still all about the animals! 

Colin is amazed at the aquarium!!!! 

He was very happy to be at Zoolights

We saw the Light show that was set to music!! Just amazing Christmas Magic!

We ended the night with “ Birthday Elephant” He has the saw exact birthday as Kaitlin! 

So glad we got to see the Zoolights and enjoy such a fun night! 

Santa Visit

We attempted to visit Santa a few weeks ago!! This was as close as Colin got!! He was crying before we even got to sit with Santa He was not a fan! 

And he let the entire mall know how upset he was!! Maybe next year!

 

Kaitlin was thrilled to meet Santa and was just smitten with him! 

Look how excited Santa is to have his picture made with Kaitlin! He was so sweet and laughed with a real “hohoho”! It was such a fun magical experience for Kaitlin! 

This is one of my favorites!!! Santa loved her outfit too!! She was so proud!! 

Such a fun Christmas memory!