Holidays 2024

We had a wonderful holiday season this year with lots of traditions, family fun, and memories! We definitely look forward to the holiday season and it seems to fly by faster every single year. We crammed in as much as we could, but also built in plenty of time for some rest and relaxation.

We kicked off the holiday season with a fun trip to one of our favorite places - The Walnut Room! We had a yummy dinner and then enjoyed walking around the city to see all of the lights.

The kids all had a plethora of activities throughout December. Leah started off the month running in a 5k to support her friend's little brother. Ben has arthritis and was thrilled to have all of the older girls there to support him! We also enjoyed quite a few concerts throughout December. If we weren't at school for concerts, we were there to watch sports. Caleb was really busy with wrestling and Leah snuck in a few basketball games in the weeks between her foot injury and her concussion.

As soon as break started, we were busy almost every single evening with some sort of celebration. The first night was one of our favorites - a get together with the Blooms because Mark, Madelyn, and Lydia were in town. It was so great to see them and we had such a fun time!

We hosted the Lamont cookie day and it was a blast! We loved having our house full of some of our favorite people. We ended up with way too many cookies, but they managed to get eaten!

Christmas day ended up being super relaxing! We woke up early and opened our presents before having Grandpa, Grandma, and TiTi over for the day. We had breakfast, opened presents, played games, and just lounged around all morning and into the early afternoon. Everyone left for a short time and then came back for dinner. We also loved having Nyla's friend, Tyrese, join us for the day!

Between Christmas and NYE, we squeezed in some birthday celebrations. By the time NYE rolled around, we ate, drank, and celebrated so much that we didn't know if we had anything left to give! Thankfully, we rallied and enjoyed an absolutely awesome visit from our "Florida friends". We had so much fun catching up and celebrating the New Year with them!

By January 1, we felt like we all crawled across the holiday finish line! We had a wonderful holiday season, but it was BUSY. This picture of Chief on New Year's Day sums it all up quite well!