Life... One Day at a Time: December 2018

As always, we had 3 very special Christmas celebrations this year. The weekend before Christmas we traveled back home to the family farm and met up with all of Matt's siblings and their kiddos. This is the loudest and craziest celebration; but we all love it so much!! The kids have a blast together...minus a few squabbles. But they really do a great job together. We were blessed with nice enough weather that we were able to hang outside and ride on the 4 wheeler and tractor. My mother in law; one of the kindest people I know also had a special delivery of an outhouse that was built by Uncle Craig. We (meaning the guys) were able to unload it and move it into the yard for her. She was so excited!! The rest of us were spoiled as usual getting lots of gifts but loving the time together.

4 wheeler exploring on the farm

Uncle Craig and Ava

Ella with her mountain of gifts

New receiver gloves for Coop!

Ella is now an running a vet clinic

Handsome Fuller boys

Ha!! New apple watch for NaiNai and Grandpa

Uncle Craig made Mama's Fullers dreams come true with a new out house

Going through new trading cards

A little chill time LOL!!

Cubs decanter

Bean bag chairs and a giant teddy bear

Siblings annual "isle of lights" tour :)

"dilly, dilly!!" (With apple juice FYI ;))

Tractor Ride with grandpa

Our second celebration was our immediate family Christmas on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We celebrated with lunch out, Christmas Eve candlelight service, games, movies, delicious food, presents, and "Mary Poppins Returns" later in the day when we were ready to get out of the house!!

Steak and shrimp for mom and dad; mac and cheese and hotdogs for the girls

Santa's been here!!

Waiting for the girls to wake up!!

A robot vacuum!! He surprised me!!

Matt and I had a very special surprise rigged up for the girls this year. They opened their gifts from under the tree and just when they thought they were done we let them know that they had one more, very special gift that they needed to locate. We put together a scavenger hunt and had a blast watching them work together to figure out where the next clue might be. Eventually the clues led them to one final box. And when they opened that box, they learned that we are all leaving for a Disney Cruise soon!! They initially seemed like maybe they weren't sure if this was all real but eventually they knew it was real and were over the moon!! Matt and I are equally excited and so glad we don't have to keep that secret any longer!!

Ready to start their scavenger hunt!

We're going on a Disney Cruise!!

Lastly we celebrated with my side of the family at the lake house. We've talked about doing this before but never made the decision to go for it until this year. So glad we did! I seriously felt like we were in a Hallmark Christmas movie. The house looked beautiful, we decorated cookies together, and in general loved each others company. The weather was nice enough that we were able to get outside some and we cheered on the Chiefs as they clinched the division title on Sunday!!