Decorating & Christmas Prep

December 2012~ Getting our house all ready for Christmas!  I love this time of year and it's fun seeing it all through the eyes of our children. (:  

Every year since 1999 I had have added photo ornaments to the tree.

I made raspberry vinegar for gifts...

All dressed up for the Christmas service at church.

Josh made some Christmas gifts also.

Visiting Grandpa

December 2012~ Josh's dad had heart surgery to take care of his arrhythmia.  Everything went well, but his body had quite the recovery afterwards.  He even had to go back to the hospital a few weeks later with fluid on his lungs. ):

The boys drew pictures for Grandpa (I helped Ronan come up with a pun for his "punny" Grandpa.  Ronan drew a whale and wrote "Get whale soon") (:

MOG Brunch

December 11, 2012~ Our annual Moms of Grace Christmas Brunch

Always such an amazing spread of food!

Cute table decorations by Amy R

Ha!  The infamous gift exchange (including stealing!).

A bunch of silly mamas!

Audrey's Play & Family Time

We went to Audrey's performance of Little Women.  She did an incredible job and we were all very proud of her!

~ Grandma and Grandpa Ruddick visited from Portland to see Josh's dad before his heart surgery.  It was nice to gather with family and get some pictures. Grandma had made matching sweater vests for our boys for Christmas!

Cute cousin moments...

Tate snuck into this picture (:  

Christmas festivities begin...

The Women of Grace put on a Christmas party in lieu of the Tour of Homes this year.  Becca, Katrina, and I were asked to do a craft demonstration: 

Some examples of our cards

There was a lot of creative & delicious food!

And a hot chocolate bar. (:

Baseball Photo Book

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