Christmas 2023

Everyone was here for Christmas.  We had a lot of fun decorating cookies, bowling, and viewed the Christmas lights at Botanical garden.  It was pretty cold/wet this year, so there wasn't a lot of outside play that happened.  We didn't even get a fire in this year(bummer).  But Santa came and we all had some good family time together💓🎅🎄

Before everyone arrived I made Christmas candy with a friend.  It was the first time in a long time I've made any candy.  It was fun and everyone enjoyed it.

Kaitlyn and Alex purchased tickets to a Christmas concert the weekend before everyone arrived. We did dinner and a concert.  It was a fun night out!

                                 

We rode a bus to get into the gardens where the Christmas lights were displayed. We all managed to get the back to ourselves coming and going...Just how we like it😀

We did some "Then and Now" photos, which is always so crazy(and sad) to look at.  Where does the time go?!?!?!?!

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A night of bowling...I was not the high scorer.  And Josh was quite impressive without the bumpers!

 

                                                      Some pictures with my peeps....

Dinner at Sr. Sol a couple times is a must...

*****GAMES*****

Nobody blew out all the candles.  The most we got was the 2nd to last.  Almost, but not quite. There was one more candle after the last one shown in the pictures. 

                                                          Let the decorating begin....

                                  Kaitlyn made a delicious and beautiful charcuterie board.

Cody made some delicious meals while he was here, and this Ramen was a favorite...

And nothing beats a trip to Jeni's Ice Cream😋

I made a new dessert that turned out to be really good.  It was a Cranberry cheesecake pie  I got from my sister in law's food blog, Most Delicious Life- Click here for link to food blog

                                                                              Before...

After...

A fun time was had by all, even though it looked like this most of the time...

                                                       And by the end we all felt like this....

It was still a very MERRY CHRISTMAS(and went by wayyyy to fast!)🎄🎄🎄