Christmas Part 2

After Christmas we headed to the zoo! We had wanted to go see their zoo light display, but we headed up early to say hello to all of our animal friends first, since once it got dark and the lights came on, most animals were not visible anymore. We had a great day (as always), enjoyed dinner and then quickly saw the lights - they were honestly quite disappointing, so we were glad we went up early to actually visit the zoo first! 

3 of the baby lions, that don't look like babies anymore! 

They were so cool to sit and watch wrestle like little kids. There's another batch that hasn't been let out yet, too! 

Jeremy totally gets annoyed with me at the gorilla exhibit. He becomes a single dad watching both boys as I sit and stare at these cute babies! He's ready to go and I'm like "just 5 more minutes" hahaha

We had lots of popcorn nights.....

We bought ourselves Scrabble so we had lots of these nights.....

Christmas Part 1

I thought Christmas was going to be really hard away from family. Jeremy told me afterwards that he was really worried about me, but among the bittersweet, it was really nice. We didn't have any commitments or obligations. We could do what we want, when we wanted. So we soaked up a ton of family time and had an absolute blast!

We enjoyed some time off from therapy over the holidays, but we continue to be incredibly proud of this guy! He is only 3 sounds away from being on track with a 4-year old...

We really only need to have Daddy home...

On Christmas Eve we did presents with my parents. The boys added new animals to their ever growing "zoo" and they don't know it yet, but they'll be getting monthly magazines in the mail. I think I'm more excited about this as it occupies them for a LONG time LOL

 

 

 

We did a family grocery trip to stock up on yummy stuff and so I could attempt to make my mom's infamous Christmas cookies. 

Seth experienced pushing his own shopping cart and there's no turning back from that one....

 

That evening, we headed off to do our Festival of Lights. We went all out with dinner, the carousal, a train ride and an overpriced plastic sword that made me feel like I was having a seizure and then broke 2 days later.....

 

 

 

Back home, kids to bed and Jeremy and I got ready for the morning!

(this was super easy to assemble with only 

2 heart attacks that we were missing pieces)

And then morning came!!!

Lucas was far too interested in playing with the kitchen to open up his stocking, Seth was all about the presents...

 

 

 

 

 

Jeremy spoiled me with gifts as always and then we enjoyed a quiet dinner just us two after the boys went to bed...

 

Our December...

I already shared a bit about December with the visit from Jeremy's parents - and I have a ton to share about our holidays, but I wanted to still include how the whole month started!

I got one of my Christmas early and got to see Lauren Daigle in concert with Jeremy!!! I didn't get any pictures of her, but it was amazing. It was her Christmas tour but she came out and did a mashup with two of my favorite songs as an encore. I can't wait to see her again!

When you can't find your child and he's giggling under the bed...

There's no fighting a nap when Phoebe 

(our little vibrating heater) comes to lay on you! 

Stay tuned for our holiday adventures!