This year our holidays were very packed and busy. We did indeed have 4 Thanksgivings (although more spread out and not always including Miss Lilah...thankfully) and also 4 Christmas' (in two days, mind you). It's always so wonderful to be with family and to see a lot of my family that I don't see much. It's sad that when we were smaller we got together a lot for all the cousins' birthdays, but as we've gotten older, we have all gone our separate ways and live busy lives. We live mostly all so close, but see each other only a few times a year. We did however vow to keep it a lot more simple next year. It was two days of exhaustion and very little relaxation, which makes it harder to truly enjoy Christmas time. To make matters even more crazy, the day after Christmas we began to move most of our house into our back room to prepare for scraping the remainder of the lovely popcorn ceiling, painting, and new carpet. I am so, so thankful for our remodel and the plush new carpet, but it was pretty nuts for a few days. Lilah and I (see the above post) stayed at my mom's for 5 days while Lance worked at the house. It was very relaxing, but a little sad to not spend those days off with Lance. We were all so thankful for my mom and her letting us stay there, helping with Lilah so much and allowing us to take over her home for that long. I think she really enjoyed it and I KNOW Lilah loved it. However, my mom's kitty (Bonnie) and 12 year old dog (Lexi) pretty much hated the new visitors.
Here are some of our Christmas pictures, minus Christmas with the Buslach's (I took NO pictures) and Christmas at my mom's (I forgot my camera, so have to get pictures still from her).
The pictures of the kids was a Christmas play that Faith made up and directed all the kids (or attempted to), telling the story of Jesus' birth. It was great and so cute with little Lilah involved this year. Nice work cousin Faith!
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