Holiday Happenings

It's that time of year already....time for all the fun of the holiday season! We've had a great start to our festivities and figured we ought to share a bit about what we've been up.

The holiday season began for us down in Carmi. We had a great long weekend celebrating Thanksgiving (a weekend early, but who's keeping track) and we even snuck in some Christmas cheer. Throughout the weekend we enjoyed hanging out, relaxing, and checking out some of the town Christmas celebrations.


On the day before Thanksgiving, we took a trip to visit Ms. Lamont (aka Ti-Ti) in her classroom. The kids were watching the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving movie...and Caleb just couldn't pass up the chance to watch it with a bunch of cool 5th graders!

Thanksgiving morning was quite enjoyable at home. We had a yummy breakfast and the kids actually sat and watched the Thanksgiving Day parade on tv.
We spent Thanksgiving evening at Grandpa and Grandma Lamont's house with the entire Lamont family. It was so fun to hang out, catch up, eat yummy food, and play a mean game of catchphrase!

In preparation for Christmas, our small group had a really fun "family friendly" gathering. We spent time hanging out with all the kids (they're usually running wild in the basement while the adults spend time together reading, discussing, and praying). We also packed boxes for Operation Christmas Child....which is an awesome outreach that is done every year. Boxes are packed with all kinds of random stuff ranging from toys to personal hygiene items. They are then shipped off to less fortunate children around the world. It was awesome for Caleb to experience the concept of giving (he reeeeeeeeeally wanted the Lightning McQueen car that went into our box, but was willing to part with it when we explained how special it would be for another boy to have).
It wouldn't be Christmas without visiting Santa! We had a great brunch with Santa and the kids really enjoyed themselves. We were shocked that Leah warmed up to the giant man in the red suit. Given her temperament, we expected a much more dramatic response when we put her in his lap!

To top off all the fun we've been having, we finally got our first big snowfall. Caleb has been waiting and waiting to play in the snow and he's just loving this weather! Apparently our neighbor has also been waiting with just as much excitement as Caleb, because I'm pretty sure they tied for the award given to the first child outside playing in the first snowfall of the year...if it was up to Caleb, he would've just skipped breakfast altogether and put his snow pants on right over his jammies!