Celebrations

The months of December & January are very busy in our family with an array of Celebrations: Birthdays, Anniversaries, & of course Christmas & New Years.  A few weekends ago, we had a lot of celebrating to do!  Thursday the 9th was Ben's younger brother Adam's 24th Birthday.  We took him to lunch for pizza on his birthday and then the whole family got together on Friday night at Felix's Fish Camp for dinner to celebrate.  Ms. Leigh is always entertaining

Then Saturday morning was my nephew Bennett's 3rd Birthday Party.  Since his birthday is only 4 days apart from Christmas, they held his party early this year.  His present from his parents was this awesome playground/swingset/slide/etc (that all the men in the family LOVED putting together) 

& they rented a bounce house for all the kids to play in (& once all the kids left the party, all is "adults" jumped in it too!)

AuniE & BigUn gave B this "Pushing Thomas" that he is too old for, but oh so fun for a thomas-obsessed little boy!

 That night, my sister Rachel came to spend the night & cookout with Ben & I.  She brought my parents puppy, Sam, over to play with Harper.  They are pretty much the same age & since my parents other puppy, Gus, sadly suddenly passed away this month, I think Sam enjoyed having a playmate again!  

And Sunday, we kept up our yearly tradition of attending Springhill Baptist's Seasonal production of "This is Christmas."  This year there were extra familiar faces up on stage.... Natalie, Stephen, & Emory played Mary, Joseph, & baby Jesus!

And to close with something extra sweet: I got to babysit Emory & Bennett one day later that week & Emory was wearing some PJ's we gave her!  Love these babies...