Merry Christmas Everyone

Merry Christmas everyone from our family to yours! I'm very happy to spend Christmas with our families and make memories with Hadley. She was so little last year and I barely remember her being there :)

(last year) see how rough we looked haha

Here is our Christmas Card this year (cropped a bit for name purposes)

Ornament exchange party

We hosted a little ornament exchange party this past weekend and it was lots of fun! I spent every nap time Hadley had all week preparing for it (no joke).  I'm super busy this week during naps doing our homemade christmas gifts for my family (which is why this will be short, sorry!)

We had spinach lasagna roll ups and they were delicious.

I made a candy cane centerpiece.

Reindeer cookies and a nice mason jar cocoa favor for everyone to take home.

"grinch" fruit was also available.

So cute champagne drinks were flowing. We also had a non-alcohol punch that was a real hit (empty punch bowl, actual punch not pictured but it was red). I doubled the recipe FYI.

I got these two really cute ornaments!

Here's an unclose picture of the mason jar hot cocoa (thanks Pinterest!) 

Those are edible marshmallows made with an edible marker pen (hot topic at the party). Everyone seem to really love all the attention to detail I spent so it was worth all the hard work! 

Cookie drive

I thought I would share something I thought was pretty cool with you. This base (and I'm sure tons of other ones) do an annual christmas cookie drive. Everyone and anyone can bake cookies and then they're delivered to the single airmen on base, deployed families here, and also deployed members overseas. They even made it into a friendly competition between squadrons.

I did my part of baking 10 dozen cookies (which wasn't much but all I could do this year with my busy bee at home). They also had volunteers sort and deliver the cookies.

Here's a picture of mine.

Look how many cookies!

So cute!

They had local school kids make the bags that the cookies went into.

Can anyone guess how many cookies our SMALL (it's seriously small) base made?!?!

1,000 DOZEN COOKIES!! 

BOOM

Max's visit

My nephew max came to stay with is for a few days after thanksgiving and the kids sure had fun! Max's elf had arrived as well :)

They enjoyed a trip to lowes.

Playing outside in a pool.....

Lounging in jammies.

Two peas in a pod (toy tub).

And a little selfie fun!

We had to put away some of the walker toys because they seem to be the fight starters :) Hadley was glad to see her new dolly and stroller. 

Max was such a good boy while he was here. He slept great and gave us no trouble at all! Minus the couple of time outs haha.

We've been crazy busy here, trying to get Christmas decorated still and presents organized. We're hosting a small ornament exchange this weekend so that's what I'm prepping for this week! 

our little turkeys

Sorry I haven't been blogging too much, family was here for Thanksgiving and we gained an extra kid this week :)

Max is staying with us for a little bit because his gigi is away visiting her sisters and other family. We're having fun so far! Here's some pics :)