Christmas Day is always celebrated with cinnamon rolls and coffee for breakfast, then we head downstairs to open presents with just our little family. We let Em play with her presents while we finish opening ours and cleaning up.
Once we’re done playing and cleaning up, we head to my parent’s house to celebrate with my parents, sisters and their families.
Christmas Eve morning started with some snuggles in bed and waking up daddy after he got to sleep in, stinker!
Then we got dressed up and ready for church. We tried to grab a quick family photo, but Emerald had other plans…
Then we headed to Life Church for their Christmas Eve, which is always so fun!
And lastly we headed to Kathy & Scott’s house for appetizers and opening a few presents…
We celebrated Christmas early with Drew’s side of the family since his sister Stephanie was able to come home earlier in December. We had everyone at our house and Em enjoyed opening sooo many presents, it was actually kind of overwhelming, ha! She loves her little zoo with all the animals and her Cozy Coupe! We also can’t wait until it warms up and we can head to the zoo since we got a zoo pass for 2016.
It’s a tradition we started when we were newly married to bake Christmas sugar cookies and spell out the year. This year it was a little harder with a 18 month old running around our feet the entire time, but we tried to snap a few photos! Though this year we had to decorate them a few days later…
How is it already December already? It seems like we all were just making our new years resolutions and our little baby was still immobile! 2015 was pretty great for us, we made it a priority to create family time, no matter where we were – at home, at the park, or at the beach. Here’s what we’ve been up to…
Drew – He’d describe his year filled with intense, fast paced projects at Milwaukee Tool and lots of homework while he works on getting his masters at Marquette. He also traveled to China twice this year, but is always glad to come home!
Vanessa – Focused on improving her photography this year and launched her own photography business during the summer. She’s also works part-time as a graphic designer at an e-commerce company.
Emerald – She learned to eat real food, crawl, walk, talk and well has turned into a little human and is no longer quite a baby. She keeps us on our toes, but are so thankful for how much joy and laughter and craziness she brings to our home. Some of her favorite things this year were: the beach, walks, swings, splashing water, bubble guppies and trying to take ornaments off the tree.
We can’t wait to see what 2016 brings!
