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!

Town Christmas Parade

This year was Ben's first year marching with the middle school band in the town Christmas parade, and he did awesome! I'm not sure he loved all our loud "support" as he walked by, but everyone else seemed to love our energy this year!


We got there early to set up a good spot, and it was a bit chilly...










Great job Ben!


He followed up the parade with a Christmas Band concert the following week, and it was fun as always!



NCSU Sophomore Year Move-In Day!

It's hard to believe that summer is already coming to a close, and it's move in day at NCSU for Abby already! For her sophomore year...