the hawkins family

holiday fun

Here's my random post of all the pictures between Thanksgiving and mid-December. What a fun holiday season!

Lunch with the girls on Will's long school day. :)

Playing in the car while we wait to pick up Will.

Kisses from my sweet boy!

And less fun....sweet Emily fell off a stool and busted her chin on the tile floor in the kitchen. So we got to spend a morning in the emergency room. :( Luckily, no stitches...just glue!

We also had a super fun night with Blair, Mel, and baby Caroline!

Will loves to build with blocks, these little interlocking things, magnatiles, legos...whatever!

And one of my favorite things to do each year....decorate for Christmas!!

And one more, with presents under the tree!

We also had fun at the FUMCR Advent Workshop!

Will wrote a letter to Santa, with just one request this year: a big kid monopoly set, with ALL the pieces. :)

We've had fun taking the kids to ride bikes/trikes at the Pearce parking lot when school is out.

The seniors get to paint their parking spots, and some are so good! Lots of fun to look at all their creativity.

Will and I got to have a special one-on-one lunch date after school one day when the girls were with my parents. We were both excited!

This cutie chose Canes, which we eat almost once a week...but he wanted to go IN the restaurant, since we always pick it up from the drive-thru.

Will's class had a fun Christmas party with games, reindeer food, decorating ice cream cone trees, and a Christmas program by the kindergarten class. I loved getting to be there!

Modeling new dresses!

Slightly awkward green screen picture from a fun family holiday party we got to attend.

And finally, modeling Christmas outfits!

We went to see Allie with A Walk in the Park Photography for holiday mini-sessions again this year. I am always amazed that she ends up with good pictures, because our children consistently act like compete fools during our sessions. :)

{caroline}

{emily}

And what most of the 30 minutes really looked like...{dancing to Frozen and being dramatic}

Merry Christmas!!

christmas jammies!

This year, I took orders for embroidered Christmas pjs through etsy and from friends....and whew!!! I may have been a bit optimistic on how much embroidery time I would have during the super-busy fall season! But I did get them all done, and then took about a month off from pjs before finally making some for my own kids!

I had actually ordered 2 sets for the kids, one red/white and one red/green. I was planning to do a white snowflake design on the red/white ones, and then something else on the red/green. But unfortunately, one of the red/white ones got sucked into my machine when a snowflake was being embroidered, and ended up with a big hole in it! UGH! Thankfully it happened on one of ours, and not someone else's! So I wrote the red and white ones off as un-fixable, and since the snowflake design was my favorite, I put that design on the red and green ones. And THEN...once I got caught up on all my Christmas orders and had some extra time, I was able to fix the red and white ones enough to be used. Sort of a long and pointless story...but that's how we ended up with 2 sets of jammies with pretty much the same designs.

So we had a little photo shoot one night, right after a pretty extreme meltdown over having to wear the pjs instead of queen elsa dresses. Yet somehow, they rallied and we got some really cute pics! :)

thanksgiving

Clearly a little behind on blog posts again...maybe my new years resolution will be to stay on top of this a little more? Or actually, my resolution should be to catch up on making the blog scrapbooks for the last 3 years that I'm behind on. {oops} So even though it's almost New Years, let's talk Thanksgiving!

Here are a couple of pics from Thanksgiving eve at Mama D and Grandpa's house. Everyone had a blast!

And as for actual turkey day, we hosted again this year, which is always so fun. Unfortunately, we got a little nervous that we might have to postpone this year, because Will came down with a stomach bug the Friday before Thanksgiving week. We knew he would have time to recover, but I was afraid we would all pass it around...and no one wants to have Thanksgiving dinner at THAT house! But thankfully, Will got over it quickly and no one else got it, whew!! So Thanksgiving went on! My parents cooked a turkey, plus we ordered a Greenberg smoked turkey, and everyone brought lots of sides. It was a great meal, and it's always fun to get out the china and crystal, and use the big dining room table!