This year we spent Christmas in our jammies (with throw up bowls nearby) snuggled together watching Christmas movies. 

Awesome timing for the flu to hit. 

Ugh.

And so, even though it’s now the 28th and our Christmas decorations are already down and put away (yup- I’m one of those crazies that needs her house back right after Christmas) I still wanted to come on here and wish you all a Merry Christmas.

Two months of pictures.
Two months of memories.
Ones I just don’t want to forget!

Some of the things I love most about the Christmas season are the traditions we have started as a family.
While some of them are simple and fun- like the new pajamas we open on Christmas eve to wear on Christmas morning, others are so much more than that…. like the Cookie Countdown we started a couple of years ago.
Last week Evan asked me if we could please deliver our cookies to the homeless again. Oh how my heart swelled at not only the fact that he remembered but also that he was hoping that we could do it again. When I told him of course we would his face lit up. “Awesome! That was so much fun!”

Could his response have touched his mama’s heart any deeper?

This year we are going to add in a couple of new traditions…

after movie theater popcorn  a large coke  a package of m&ms a bite of their kitkat (and by bite i…