The month of November and December are full of lots of holiday fun - many of our activities are family or friend traditions we try to do every year, and others are spur of the moment outings or family activities! Here are a few of our favorite things we did this holiday season!
I kicked off the holiday season with my moms group - Pre Thanksgiving Feast! We have been doing this feast for at least 6 years! We get together a week or so before Thanksgiving to sample out favorite Thanksgiving recipes to share with our friends! Always a fun night we always look forward to!
We had a low key Thanksgiving with Jons family with a nice meal and taking the kids to the movies to see "The Good Dinosaur"
Time to decorate the tree!
Time for Dixie...
and Herbie to visit...
Shayla had her holiday party Cotillion so the kids both got dressed up for the evening! They always invite the siblings on to the dance floor too!
It was a beautiful and fun night for all!
We met up with Brooke and Brayden to help celebrate Braydens birthday at the Four Season holiday adventure!
We got to meet Santa!
Smile Santa!
And do faux ice skating! It was so hard compared to real ice skating but the kids still enjoyed it!
We decorated Gingerbread houses! I had put "Decorate Gingerbread houses" in the advent calendar on a Sunday and didn't realize it was there and had not bought a premade kit yet, so guess who made homemade Gingerbread houses from scratch! It was actually a lot easier than I thought so I think we may have started a new tradition! I always save Halloween candy to decorate with so I had plenty of that laying around!
And we had fun checking out the neighborhood Christmas lights!
We had a fun Girl Scout holiday party and secret Santa exchange!
The kids did a great job at their school holiday performance!
All dressed up for the School performance.
My holiday cuties!
I went to a holiday part y for one of Jons client - the theme was the Speakeasy so we had fun dressing up a bit!
The did a Magic Mountain date with Amy's family! (Only lost one kid - Mitchell - when after this photo he went behind the Christmas tree while the rest of us went the other direction!)
We dressed up for our Ward Christmas party "Night in Bethlehem" and it was a beautiful evening!
Entering Bethlehem and paying our taxes.
What a wonderful night!
My bestie Heather had her annual ladies social - this year the theme was Barbies!
I had fun as workout Barbie!
And Heather was a Ken doll! It was too fun!
We went to Jon's Christmas work party too! They were celebrating 20 years in business!
It was a great month full of lots of time spent with family and friends!
