The Journey is the Destination: Christmas 2013

"I'm Ready!"

Christmas 2013 is in the books, and what a blessed one it was! We were beyond blessed to spend the holidays filled with fun time with the ones we love.

Helping Mommy make cookies

First, Augusta and I were determined to make Christmas cookies for Santa. We made them a little early because I knew we'd have plenty left, and it gets crazier closer to Christmas. We made them from scratch and they were so yummy! It took us two tries the first time, because Augusta's helping ended with her dumping half of the batter out of the bowl. But oh well, memories were made. Chase was bragging on our finished product when they were done and I was so proud! They were chocolate chip m&m cookies, and I'll agree with my hubby that they were yummy! I made two batches over the break--they were that good! Augusta had so much fun making them too! It was all worth it!

Peek-a-boo

Our Christmas started with the annual get together with Chase's extended family on his mom's side. Pretty much all the aunts, uncles, and cousins were in attendance. With quite a few young ones there's plenty of people for Augusta to play with, though she spent most of her time with bestie, Mads. :)

Besties playing with Play Dough

Next was Christmas Eve and our family Christmas with Mims and Pa-Paul. Augusta loved tearing into her gifts, and was actually pretty hilarious bc she so had to get every scrap of paper off of each gift! Both babies were super excited about their Barbie jeeps! But the hit of the night was the play dough ice cream maker we got for Maddie. Both girls played with it all night long!

Favorite Christmas morning pic!

The next morning we woke up to a visit from Santa Claus! Augusta's big present from Santa was a pink kitchen set! She loved it and immediately started cooking things for us! Opening presents was a bit of a challenge because everything she unwrapped she wanted open right then. We managed to make it through with a few pauses to explore new toys.

After opening our gifts we went down to my parent's house to do Christmas with Gammie and Pappy. Alyssa and Brad came down for the holidays, so all we were missing was Sam. Augusta was kind of over opening at this point, but but she did love her shopping cart and her "fur real" white kitty! She named her Roxie because she looks like our cat with the same name. :)

Lastly, we had our holiday celebration with our closest friends...current and past OHS baseball coaches. It was so nice to see everyone again--it had been so long! And Augusta enjoyed playing with the other littles. Even though she was the only tiny girl running around, that didn't slow her down. She enjoys excitement at her house, or maybe she just gets bored of looking at the two of us all day. But even tonight she was commenting about how no one was at her house, just "me, momma, and dada" she would say.

So that's it for our 2013 Christmas season. Sad one of my favorite times of year is at an end...next we will be taking down the Christmas tree. Tear.