December 2021

Our Elf always stops by on 12/1 and leaves goodies-apple soda, chocolate calendars, movie bucket & hot chocolate.

Grinch Day-Max loves these new socks!

LOTS of JV basketball games!

We love, love when Moose is tired.

NFL game (Bucs vs Falcons) in Atlanta.

Incredibly fancy.

Decorating for Christmas.

 

FMS @HVMS Basketball game-had to stop by my office to get some snacks. 

Moose destroys everything...including the Christmas tree.

Seriously. He can rip a branch off in seconds.

Max loves to draw at school and always brings home artwork.

UT basketball game with my favorite boys.

Birthday party festivities

We ran through the lights at the library park one day because we were both in pretty bad moods and it definitely cheered us up.

LOVE this kid.

Max is REALLY into Legos & has big plans to make MOCS of different scenes from Vietnam. He has planned all of the details, searched everything, made a budget, etc.

SO many basketball games when your Mom is an administrator and your older brother plays. I took A & some friends & Max to a Varsity FMS game at Karns Middle.

Max is playing WBBL this season -he is so festive.

Making bunuelos with this kid.

Christmas cookie decorating!

Max made an injured gingerbread man.

Anderson made a part of the male anatomy.

Brandon made really fancy ones.

Downtown Knoxville day with the cousins-lunch, Cruze Farm & festivities.

Max got Grinch Green dipped in cherry-very festive.

Moose would NOT stop eating the tree. He ate so many branches off the right side that it was basically lopsided.

Took Max to meet some friends at Defy & he wore his Grinch onesie. I love him.

Anderson trying out contacts again! I love when I can see his cute little face.

Gingerbread house making!!

The TV broke (again) but they still managed to use it-A played quite a bit of Fortnite with his friends over the break.

Making the cookies before we decorated them.

It actually turned out to be a lot of fun. 

ALLLLLLL of the errands.

One of Max's blueprints for his Vietnam MOC.

Videos:

random

Moose eating Christmas tree 

Moose eating tree again

Max Grinch at Defy 

Moose

 Anderson & Lily trampoline 

Boys Christmas 21 

More Christmas 21

A & Teddy swim 

Boys ski 21 

A ski 21

Boys ski 21

Max ski 21

 Max ski 21

 

Christmas 2021 & SNOWSHOE

 Christmas Eve: We went to Nicole's for the day & ate a ton of food, opened presents & played outside. We went to Toni's for the evening & had a great time!We went home & watched "Christmas Vacation" that night. 

Christmas Day: We woke up early, opened presents & stockings (I did not get any pics!) and played with Moose. Anderson's airpods did not fit so we had to go to Best Buy the next day & get the right ones. We went to Toni's for brunch and MORE presents. Then we went back home for a bit and then headed to Noni's for dinner and EVEN MORE presents. 

We had a great time and are so lucky to have such a great family and so much love. 

We went skiing after Christmas with the Hughes family & the boys had the best time.

These pics are in a crazy order.

On the way home from Snowshoe: Max picked this as a snack from the gas station. He is obsessed with finding a perfect Sponge Bob face.

SpongeBob viewing with the cousins.

I took the older 2 to into the village area for dinner one night. We had pizza and it was delicious.

Shuttle to get Starbucks!

I took these babies on A LOT of bus rides throughout the 4 days we were there. It was so much fun to hang out with them.

Tacos one night for dinner...

Swimming with these cousins.

These babies in the stroller!

So incredibly grateful that they have each other.

This was before the wine glass was broken in the hot tub.

Wendy's on the way to Snowshoe.

Chocolate fondue on Christmas!

Noni with her stocking.

GG realized she wore this same shirt over 2 decades ago, proving that fashion never goes out of style.

Stockings!

One of the only 2 pics I have from Christmas morning.

The other one.

Christmas Eve!

So grateful for Aunt LoLo who ALWAYS spoils my boys with love and goodies.

Back to Nicole's house-these pics are all over the place.

And, another one of skiing. Max had his new ski overalls and his new Oakley goggles!

The day after Christmas airpods.