Joy in the Journey: December 2014

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Thanksgiving

We enjoyed a fun-filled Thanksgiving with the Boyd clan in Nashville this year! Each year gets a little more noisy and a tad more active! We had such fun times playing and making memories...

We all ventured over to Chattanooga the day after Thanksgiving to celebrate my grandma's 90th birthday!! I was so good to see her and celebrate her life with all our aunts, uncles and cousins!

We always enjoy going to Papa's church when we are visiting...

The kids and I stayed a few extra days to enjoy time with Papa and Mimi...

Bella and I loved going to The ladies' event at my mom's church :)

So much to be thankful for...most of all this year I was thankful to be together with my family. :)

Each year it seems that Christmas gets sweeter and sweeter...I just love teaching my precious kiddos all about Jesus' long awaited birthday! I love doing Christmas activities together...serving others and enjoying famy time. :)

We had so much fun decorating this year! There are now 4 of us to hang ornaments and get tangled in lights!

We look forward to checking our mailbox everyday...our pantry door is now nearly covered in Christmas cards! It's such a reminder of the Lord's blessings as we glance at our dear friends each day...

We had a blast creating our gingerbread houses...and eating icing!

We loved going to Christnas parties with our friends...

Nothing sweeter than a baby's first Christmas! :)

Daddy decorated the house with pretty lights!

Our house filled with Christmas cinnamon as we made our cinnamon ornaments for our mantle...

We had fun baking Christmas cookies for our neighbor friends...

It was especially fun to deliver them :)

We enjoyed our first Christmas light experience...their heads hung out the entire 30 minute drive :)

And Jer and I got our creativity juices flowing and made this chalkboards sign out of an old frame...I can only take credit for painting the frame and creating the chalkboard...my hubby is the best!