Christmas in pictures...lots of pictures

Pre-Christmas activities

Christmas Eve

Christmas

Our Christmas was just wondeful! My favorite part had to be Avery as a Shepherd in the Nativity play. It was just hilarious! I will try to post a video of it later. Hope everyone's Christmas was grand :)

EXCITED ...

that Scott is off work from tomorrow til Monday, to visit friends in Malibu tomorrow night, to go to Knotts on Christmas Eve with our Smith cousins, for the nativity and PJ party Christmas Eve night, for Christmas morning with little Avers, for my Dad's egg burritos, for Christmas day and night festivites, and for the McDonald fam to come visit us for New Years. Very grateful for the holiday season to celebrate the birth of our Savior and to be with those we love. Happy holidays!!

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Laguna Lovin'

A couple weekends ago we visited our old church in Laguna Beach. We have been to Laguna a ton of times since we moved but we hadn't been back to church there. It was so fun to see so many familiar faces and crazy to see how much the kids there had grown up. After church we went and walked around the Montage. If you haven't been there you definitely should go. It is beautiful! We wished we would have packed lunches and some extra clothes so that we could have had a nice picnic but ... we had a nice time wandering around and snaping pictures:)

Turkey Time

We started our Thanksgiving nice and early with the annual Turkey bowl and volleyball game.

The weather was sooo nice (80 degrees) so after we went swimming! The boys played melon ball and had a blast beating eachother up!

My family has a talent show every year and this year we decided to do a silly lip sinc with Chris and Nicole rather then our usual guitar song.

The day after Thanksgiving my brother Tyler put on his turkey tennis tournament. Ty and Rachele took first place leaving us in the dust.

We spent the rest of the weekend at the beach and hanging with family and friends. We missed the McDonald's but were glad we got to see some of our family on Scott's side:) Oh how I love this time of year!