Merry Christmas

Christmas 2017 sure did not disappoint.  We had lots of time with our families and the boys have been having a blast.

Family Picture by our tree on Christmas Eve

Hale Family group shot.

Christmas Ninjas

buddies for life - Lucas and Josh

Christmas Morning! Santa came :)

Adam got a shovel!

boys with their stockings

Time for 1 present from Mommy and Daddy

Drum set for Adam!!

Lucas' turn

Duplo blocks!

The three sweetest boys in the Christmas jammies!

Church picture

My Aunt Terrie got to meet Caleb

Quinn read lots of stories to Lucas ..... he was in heaven

Santa Hats!

 My grandma's grand kids and great grand kids

 My grandma Clark and the boys

She got to meet Caleb too!

Zoo Lights

Festival of Lights at the Cincy Zoo is always one our our favorite things to do!  We went a couple weeks ago and got super lucky.  Nice weather and no crowds (that hardly ever happens!)  So we ended up going twice in one week.  Once with Ben's friends Shawn and Michael and once with my parents.  Both were fun nights and the boys had a blast.

Annual Christmas tree family picture

 Light tunnel selfie

 pretty pond of lights

 Carousel time

Lucas and Mr. Michael

The boys with Mamaw and Papaw

Fun Times

When Auntie K came home from her vacation in California she came over and spent some time with a couple of her favorite guys!

 Of course cookies were made :)

 New recipe

 <3

 In the past 2-3 weeks Lucas has went from extreme scribbling to real drawing.  It is so cool to watch him do it.  He really thinks through what he wants to draw and puts tons of detail into his work.  Ben and I haven't even showed him how to do it (we tried like 6 months ago and he wanted nothing to do with it).  We are so proud of our big guy!

His happy stegosaurus!

Thanks to Auntie K, we were able to sneak away to celebrate my friend Christine's and my birthday.  We went to Grainworks Brewery in West Chester.  Yummy!

 Birthday girls :)

 Treats for the neighbors. Christmas tree brownies!

With the best 4 guys on my birthday :)

Baptism Day Celebrations!

Sarah and Adam both have the same Baptism Day (Dec 6th) so we love celebrating them together.  This year we went to the Matthew 25 Ministries Christmas party! It was a blast.  It was soooooo huge with tons to do. 

Lucas loves Cinderella now that he went to the play :)

Sending off a letter to Santa

Face painting

cutest little reindeer!

Adam got a Christmas Tree on his arm

cousin time

Sarah and God Father picture!

All 3 did a great job with Santa!!