Advent: Trees!

I’m not sure how this one failed to jump in the queue, but here are the kids’ trees, along with the family tree.  When I was a little girl, my mom made wreaths for each of us in the family and hung them on our bedroom doors.  I loved that wreath.  It made me feel…

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Christmas Day!

Our morning didn’t begin quite as early as I thought it might.  We heard some “whispers” around 6:45am from the girls.  They had discovered their Santa stash.  The boys arrived shortly after, around 7am.  There was lots of excitement, lots of smiles and lots of happy Whitaker children.  My parents, brother, sister-in-law and niece came…

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Advent {Christmas Eve}

We have so many traditions surrounding Christmas Eve.  Some are new to the party and some we’ve done for years.  For the eve of the big party, this is how we roll. Christmas Eve Mass.  We almost always go to the earliest service because of the kids.  We’ve tried them all and this is the…

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Merry Christmas

From our house to yours…may this be the best birthday party for Jesus ever!  It was a fantastically fun-filled day in our neck of the woods.  We are grateful! Merry Christmas y’all!

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Ho! Ho! Ho!

For the first time, oh I don’t know, EVER, I waited until the week before Christmas to visit Santa.  Note to self:  don’t do that again. The line was long and creeping and just as we got into line, John Paul says, “Mom, I gotta go potty.”  Arg.  We forgot to give him his meds…

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