Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Christmas morning

Merry Christmas!


Someone found their stocking a little early and helped herself to a new toy...



We still made her go wait on the steps though for the rest of them!


There was one happy boy in our house this morning!




Free chapstick from the orthodontist for the win!!!!


Also a lot of items this year from Five Below & Dorcas!



For our cruise ship flag champion!


For our first college-bound kid... how did that happen so fast?!?!?!?




It was a fun morning together, followed by packing up for a trip to LI the next day! 

 

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Merry Christmas Eve!

Merry Christmas Eve from the Beach Family! We enjoyed the morning together exchanging gifts, sharing laughs, & ending the day with a Christmas Eve service at church. 







The dancing cactus toy provided A LOT of fun this morning!


Thanks to Mor-Mor for the new friendship lamps that my kids will enjoy- especially when Abby is off to college in the fall! 



I was thrilled to finally be back in-person for our Christmas Eve service at church since before COVID!





Saturday, December 14, 2024

Merry Grinchmas!

This year's annual Christmas cookie decorating party at our house grew even more, and we had an awesome time kicking off the holiday season with a Grinch party again! Thank you to everyone who could make it out!








We had a fun full house again as we celebrated with 10 families for some cookie decorating, games, & gift exchanges!







Mr. Grinch even showed up to take pictures with all of us again!










Mr. Grinch with our kid crowd this year...


We usually play some games together before our gift exchange, so this year, we had a saran wrap ball that was filled with candy and treats & each person had their turn trying to unwrap it with Grinch oven mitts on! It might have taken forever, but everyone seemed to have a blast!








When everyone got their goodies from the ball, they checked to see which number they had on one of their Grinch Hershey's Kisses & that was their number to open their Secret Santa gift to each other!


Too much of an awesome time made a few of us crash early...


We added a white elephant gift exchange this year for the adults, and we had so much fun!


Brian's gift was definitely the best... It was an AI generated deep fake picture of a famous photograph with all the neighbors faces!


Our new house lights were put to the test with a Grinch-themed green to say farewell to everyone! It was another successful celebration!

Christmas morning

Merry Christmas! Someone found their stocking a little early and helped herself to a new toy... We still made her go wait on the steps thoug...