Sunday, December 31, 2017

Favorites from December

Bville dinner club at our house

Taylor organized a Pin the Nose on Rudolph game for the kids

Christmas party with our Community Group girls

Visiting Liz in the hospital when she had her 2nd little girl

A few nice days in December

Young Life new leader draft

Lunch with Addie

Decorating for Christmas at the NWA Children's Shelter with work friends

Ugly sweater neighborhood bunco night

Silly girl

3rd Annual Cookie Exchange Christmas Party to host

I have super sweet and fun girlfriends at work

And they can cook!

Lunch with Taylor at school

Addie's Christmas party at school

Hanging at Nana and Jill's house

Decorating the kid's tree

A note apologizing to Elfie for Camryn touching her

Taylor and a few friends had to come up with a business idea to sell something at school to the kids in lower grades.  They ended up making Santa Stressballs.  They started off by selling them for two brain bucks each, but when sales slowed, they lowered the price to one brain buck. 
Taylor and Gunner

Pajama day at school

Hanging out with the Alms and Calhouns

Packaging up cookies at work for the Samaritan Community Center


We got to catch up with Janessa and their sweet kids over the Christmas break:
Could Jonsi be any cuter?

These kids are growing up way too fast

Silly girl at Mojitos

It snowed!

We went to see Finding Neverland at the Walton Arts Center with the Dorey family:
After the play

Rode camels in downtown Fayetteville after the play

Thursday, December 28, 2017

Visit to Georgia

We planned a visit to Georgia at the end of our Christmas vacation to meet our brand new little nephew Jameson!  Since we were going to Atlanta, we decided to make a vacation out of it and stay there for six days to see all of our family and friends.  
There were A LOT of schedules to coordinate, so we actually made a schedule for the week

Since we were pretty flexible in the timing, we went standby and all five of us made it on the first flight to ATL.

Our first stop was to visit with the Kothari family!  Love catching up with my sweet friend Tanya from high school.  We love her husband Raj and their precious boys Nik & Chase.
Lots of marriage options in this group

We laughed at how cute they were together

We stayed in a hotel during the first half of our visit and Addie loved it

We then headed to meet baby Jameson!  We couldn't get over how adorable he was!  The girls loved holding their brand new cousin.
Uncle Justin is a daddy!!

The girls also enjoyed playing with the dogs and hanging out in Justin & Katie's backyard

They are already such amazing parents!!!

Wanted to sneak this little guy back home with me

After hanging out with Justin, Katie and baby Jameson for two days, we headed to go visit the Johnson family.  On the way to their house, Jason took the family on a little tour around his old stomping ground. 
He's acting cool but he was so excited to show us around

The houses he grew up in

Where all the magic happened in football

A pond that Jason and Josh used to fish in

The Johnson's were a big part of Jason's high school years.  I really enjoyed hearing old stories about Jason from them, they are amazing people!
Visiting in their living room

The girls played with Lego's while we visited


After we visited with the Johnsons, we went to Jason Johnson's house and spent the night with his family:
The kids had a lot of fun playing together

Making brownies

High School besties and their kids


On Saturday, we met up with the Jackson family at Cracker Barrel!  It was so great to see Joyce, Jeremy and Jacob and their families.  We also got to see Justin and Katie again as well.  We love all of them so much and it had been way too long since we've seen them.
Aunt Joyce is the best and loved on our girls so sweetly

The whole crew

Aunt Joyce spoiling the girls with goodies


We were supposed to see Eric Rhodes and his family before heading up to Alto, but he couldn't make it work so we headed to the Georgia Aquarium for a few hours.

We spent the last few days up in Alto Georgia to visit with Jammy & Papa Epps.  They just moved into their new home so that was fun to see everything they had done to the new place and celebrate New Years with them.
Dinner out the first night in town


All the girls loved seeing Shadow again.  Poor girl, she could barely get away from these Epps girls.

We then celebrated Christmas and opened presents:
Papa wanted the girls ready for the big game on New Year's Day


We then drove out to Buford to see all of the projects Papa works on for his job:
Papa's name on the wall, he's a big deal around here!!!

Playing with the poppers on New Year's Day


Jan and Dennis had all of their close friends over for their annual New Year's Day party:
Aunt Cindy spoiling the girls

New Year's Day guests

Ready for the big game

Georgia won!

Jammy also planned a time for us to sing happy birthday to Camryn

It was a jam-packed week in Georgia but so great to catch up with our amazing family and friends!