Christmas 2016. These cute little elves did A LOT to help prepare for our Christmas celebration. We decorated.  Cooked. Cleaned. Kept a little puppy out of the presents. And then counted down the

The girls asked if they could have a Christmas party for some of their friends. So Jason came up with some fun games for them to play...and we came up with some Christmas

We continued our tradition this year with our fifth anual afternoon of gingerbread houses and pizza!! The Ballantyne Hotel (a very ritzy hotel in our area) hosts the Gingerbread Lane. A beautiful display of

I love  Christmas time. The lights...the tree...the homemade ornaments...the glittery bows... AND the smell of cookies. There are certain cookies and treats that only get made at Christmas... so when the oven is

We joined our friends, the Dorminys, for a fun day of decorating gingerbread houses.  They boys teamed up against the girls and the competition for sugary splendor began! Truth be told, we were

Packing up shoe boxes for children spread out across the world is one of our favorite Christmas traditions. Getting to pick out toys and goodies...filling those boxes as full as we possibly can

As soon as Thanksgiving is nicely tucked away...it's time for all things CHRISTMAS!!! Some friends invited us to the Mint Hill tree lighting at the Town Hall. With hot cocoa, fresh cookies, Santa