A Big Catch Up

It's been awhile.....but I still want to backtrack and post some pictures of all our holiday fun!
We will start with Thanksgiving. I wish I had more pictures to give this trip justice, but it really was so much fun!
For the first time in 4 years my whole family was able to spend Thanksgiving together. All of us met at my brother's house in Mississippi. We did a lot of cooking and a lot of playing!
The kids had so much fun with their cousin Christian and their grandparents.
As for our Thanksgiving feast, it was out of this world GOOD! My brother has become quite the talented chef, and had us make everything from scratch. Seriously everything, all the way down to the cranberry sauce. It was a ton of work, but soooo worth it in the end!
We were so happy to be together!




After Thanksgiving, we started getting ready for Christmas! We baked and baked and the girls were a "Big" help!

We went to a fun Christmas parade in St Charles.



Then we headed to Utah! It was so much fun to see everyone again. The girls were beyond excited for Christmas! They got some fun gifts and loved getting to play with their cousins and grandparents.

We also got together with some old friends!

Then we came home and celebrated the new year!

A week later we celebrated my 27th birthday! I got the best gift of all, 70 degree weather! That's only happened one other time in my life, while we lived in Philadelphia.

So we took advantage went to the Zoo.

Then of course had some cake!