December 2024

 We started off the month of December with what else? A Christmas festivity! We attended the Christmas Tree Lighting Celebration at AAC and had a great time! 

Our elf, Jennie came and started hanging around after we got our decorations put up! She brought the girls PJs and did some other shenanigans. 

We celebrated Nana's birthday! 

The girls celebrated Christmas with a little shopping spree gift exchange with friends. 

Then it was time to celebrate the twins' 11th birthday! First we had a sleepover with 5 of their friends. 

Then we went to see Cirque du Soleil at the Fox Theatre. 

Then it was the twins' actual birthday! We celebrated with family dinner at our house! Jennie brought some really cool gifts for the girls! 

Ellasen and I got to help at the twins' holiday party at school this year! It was so much fun! 

We did some holiday baking to get us is the spirit and we got the goodies delivered to the neighbors just before disaster struck! We got the flu! We all got sick a few days before Christmas and had to miss our on some of our super fun holiday plans. We were so bummed. 

First to go down with the flu was Everly, then me. So we stayed home from the Christmas Spectacular while Tim, Eden and Ellasen went to this epic event!

Some of us also missed Christmas Even brunch, but I heard that was good too!

Next it was time to celebrate Christmas We started Christmas Eve with some reindeer food and some cookies and milk for Santa! We also read Twas the Night Before Christmas.

When we woke up Santa had come! The favorite gifts this year were  the mini vespas for the twins and their VR sets and Ellasen got a candle warmer and a hairdryer she really wanted and a new painting and mirror for her room. 

We had to hold off on Christmas with the rest of the family to give us one more day to recover from the flu, but the next day it was time to have the family over and exchange gifts.

I didn't take a ton of pictures because I honestly wasn't feeling great still. We spent the next week recovering and spent New Years Eve on our couch for the first time in many years! Even though getting the flu was not the highlight of the season we definitely enjoyed the slower pace of this holiday.

All in all it was a great month even though it felt exceptionally long! We really did have a good 2024 and we are looking forward to 2025. Happy New Year!