Dashing through December

December is always full of SO many things.  It just seemed to fly by! 

I got to meet these friends of mine for dinner one night on the square.  Our square is magical at Christmas.  People are always walking around and it's straight out of a Hallmark movie.  

Thankful for these friends.  

The same night - Harper was with her friends on the square getting ice cream! 

The girls and I went to the most beautiful winter wedding I have ever been to.  

I've never been to an outside wedding in December.  It wasn't terribly cold but it started lightly raining right when it was supposed to start.  Thankfully it stopped just in time for them to get married.  It started again at the end.  We didn't even have umbrellas but it didn't ruin anything.  

It was just incredibly magical.  I am now hoping my girls want a Christmas wedding.  

They had sparklers and fake snow as they left.  It was amazing! 

The mother of the bride - our friend and principal.  We love this family and loved getting to be at the wedding! My girls make great wedding dates! 

Hollis had a choir concert one night.  It was so cute.  

Her little best buddies.  They are all sos sweet.  

Will Holdens class led an assembly and for the rest time in like 2 years - parents were allowed to come! 

Harper went to two different Christmas parties with her 7th grade friends from church.  I'm so grateful that she has made such a great group of friends.  I see them encouraging each other and praying for each other and sharing Bible Verses and it's just the BEST thing.  And one of the best gifts for me is that I've gotten to be friends with a lot of the moms.  

That's just the first half of December.  It got WAY busier in the second half.  I'm always thankful for cold, slow January to come in after such a crazy month! 

 

Thanksgiving finally

It's been a month since I last blogged.  A very busy month.  And I could easily just let this space die.  But I love that I have a record of our lives and one day maybe my kids can look back on it.  So I'm going to attempt to catch up on the last month.....starting with Thanksgiving.  

This year my family all decided to come to Bentonville for thanksgiving.  We have never spent the holiday here and we had such a good time! 

It was a beautiful day! We ate lunch and played a little basketball.  

And in the afternoon we headed to the movies to see Clifford.  I love going to the movies on Thanksgiving and on Christmas.  It's one of my favorite traditions.  We took up a whole row.  

My girls had so much fun with their cousin who could pass for their sister.  

The next morning we went to First watch for breakfast and then took some family photos.  It was freezing but my mom wanted a family picture so we got her one! 

The breakfast tacos were great too! 

You can't come to Bentonville without going to Crystal Bridges so we took a tour.  

And then hit Onyx for afternoon coffee! 

The kids went ice skating! 

We had dinner at Flying Fish.  

And then we saw the lights.  It was the perfect day! 

We had such a good time with my family! I loved getting to be together! 

This picture of my brother and SIL cracked me up.  Bougie in Bentonville is what I would call it.  

My brother left the next day and we headed to get a christmas tree with my parents.  

We found a good tree and took it home.  

I love a tradition of a real tree! 

My parents kept the kids that night and Scott and I went on a date.  And then they went to church with us the next day.  I don't have pictures of any of those things but it was a great weekend.  

And then Madeline our elf showed up and brought Christmas PJ's to kick off Christmas! 

and that's where I weill end for now.  Hopefully before Valentines I will blog about our Christmas .  We had a really good month1 It just flew by! And now we start back to school tomorrow and I went back to work today!