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Christmas 2016

Friday night dinner and Yahtzee with Rick and Lori too, photo credit to Abby ;)

Maya and Gage meet for the first time

Abby's Christmas Story - wow, love, love, love

Christmas Eve church service at Woodstock City

Chloe with Cooper Allen

A basketball hoop from Santa!!

Henry and Cousin Steve

sweet Kayla got new headphones too!  

right here is totally worth the couple more dollars to get Abby the fancy headphones with the extra headphone jack!

working on the new dome, great job guys!

celebrating Stratton's birthday!!

Christmas in South Carolina!!

December 2016

Friday, 12.2.16 - Girls' Night Out!!

Abby's first concert! 

the Houlihans

Tara, Alyson, Abby, and I 

For King and Country Christmas concert at First Baptist Woodstock

[and dinner at Atlanta Bread Company on the way!]

**This is where it all began!!  Little did we know, this would be the first of many For King and Country concerts to come!  They have become a family favorite for sure!!!**

Saturday, 12.3.16 - Ryan's first basketball game! [#24]

Macedonia Wildcats!  

Cherokee Youth Basketball [CYB] 

3rd grade gingerbread house night!

Love my Friday mornings with this Girlie!

Amy, Alicia, Christa

Bitty Baby!!  still her favorite!

Abby and Lyla's class Christmas party

Mrs. Lanier's 1st grade 

Ms. Tera and Ms. Patsy

and Ryan and I went to La Parilla!

Loved having Cousin Teri visit!!!

Lunch at Scottsdale Farms

She's a GREAT photographer 

UpStreet Christmas party in this amazing backyard!

my kids are blessed with awesome friends!  these are some great kids!

Chloe and Mari

Thursday - washing cars at Goshen Valley Boys Ranch with the Allen boys too

[Sarah was supposed to go, but the baby had a dr appt, so Coleson came with me instead]

We took this hard-working crew to Moe's afterwards!

Ryan, Jackson, Cooper, Abs, and Chlo 

Santa and Christmas Card 2016

Sunday 11.27.16 - visiting Santa and taking Christmas card pictures!  at Scottsdale Farms

with our friends 

Dilly, Max, Seth, Ryan, Grant

Chlo, Abs, Grace

[and pizza lunch afterwards with the Conleys, yum!]

aren't they just the cutest?!?  :)

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM US!!

November 2016

I really do love fall, soooo pretty!

11.3.16 - hat day at preschool

we love Coach Daddy

the kids and I drove down to Florida on Sunday, skipped school on Monday, and had Tuesday off for election day.

gator watching and bike riding!

I just love this picture of Chloe, it doesn't get much better then this!  Life is good!

Dinner at Goody Goody Burger

back home in time to vote!

sometimes I think it's like Where's Waldo with this dog.

Chloe and her best friend Maya

MES Turkey Trot with the Allens and Conleys

Ryan, Daddy, Abby, Chloe, Nana manned the water station

Jackson and I ran together, we had a blast and he's a pretty good little runner!

birthday boy Asher's UGA themed party

first night in their matching twin beds!

cutest little Indian ever!  

Happy preschool Thanksgiving feast day!

Ryan's Brasstown Bald diaroma

lots of time and love went into this, but we all survived ;) shoutout to Nana for helping make the green clay gunk!

3rd grade museum day - families were invited to walk between the classrooms to see all the displays, lots of awesome dioramas to see!

Thanksgiving day was great

we watched the Macy's parade, played basketball behind Avery, ate already cooked turkey soup, and went to the Conleys for dessert.  

Low-key and no-stress, I really enjoyed the day!

Friday afternoon Christmas decorating

the girls posed for and asked me to several different pictures, love it and love them

Nov. 30th - first rain since her birthday!!!  literally!!

we know because she got this awesome raincoat and boots and hasn't been able to use them!

[rumor is it rained during September break when we were in FL]