Christmas

The twinkly lights may still be up in our house, but the presents have been unwrapped and the cookies need to go. We had a full and flourishing Christmas season- from all of our merry activities to our surprise snowstorm. This may be the first time ever that I am ready to put away Christmas decorations so soon after Christmas. That might be because there is just something about starting the new year in our new home as a family of five that makes me want to start fresh and get back to a routine. Here is a look over the last couple weeks of our fun Christmas season.

I went to Finn's sweet class Christmas party. 

 

 We had our fourth annual Christmas PJ playdate with friends.

And then our house fell victim to a nasty staph infection as well as strep throat. In one week, I took four trips to the pediatrician.

After a week on antibiotics, my littlest men were finally on the mend just in time for Christmas.

We decorated cookies. Also known as immersion therapy for a severely Type A mama.

Why yes, that is Fuller House on in the background.

We got to snag daddy at church on Christmas Eve long enough to take a family pic and this was the best we got.

Jude made it through his first church service inside the auditorium.

Christmas morning before the boys came downstairs.

I asked Dustin to smile for a picture and this progression of pics might be my favorite.

This sweet boy celebrated 3 months on Christmas Eve, so stay tuned for that post.

SNOW

We, along with the rest of metro Atlanta, were surprised with a snow day on Friday. I say surprised, because the forecast called for flurries- which if you're from the South can still be enough to send folks running to the grocery stores for bread and milk. Sure enough, Friday morning we started out with flurries. Finn still had school, because said "flurries" were not expected to stick to the roadways. But then it kept snowing. And snowing. And snowing! By the time I went and picked Finn up, it was really coming down and traffic was already starting to get awful. I will be the first to say that the South definitely exaggerates when it comes to snow (i.e. the bread and milk dash). Remember Snowpocalypse of 2014? An inch can shut down the city for a week. Well all in all, we ended up with close to 9 inches this past weekend. That's right- 9 inches near our house. So crazy! It was so pretty and such a fun little Christmas surprise. The downside is that we did have a lot of trees and limbs come down- thankfully none on our house, but it was unsettling to lay in bed and hear the cracking of the trees all night long. We also never lost power, but I know many did. All in all, it ended up being some unexpected sweet family time even though it delayed our driving to South Carolina by a day. This was also Jude's first snow day, but he slept through most of it.

Before school, Finn playing in the "flurries" that we thought would be the only snow we saw that day.

Sitting in car line watching the flurries.

Mid morning Friday

Friday afternoon

Ryder was not a fan. He is his daddy and does not want anything to do with being cold.

Friday evening.

Saturday morning, as it was still snowing.

The entrance to our neighborhood