Weekend Parties

We had a fun and busy weekend.  First we started with a birthday party for the girls' friend, Ella.  Her party was at the Center for Puppetry Arts.  We got to watch the "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" puppet show and it was amazing!  This was our first time visiting the Center and we will definitely be going back.  After the show we had lunch/cake and then the kids got to make their own reindeer puppet.
  

Last night was our neighborhood Christmas party so the girls spent the night with Gigi and Papa.  They had SO much fun together.  They went to see a spectacular light show and while they were there Handley got to ride a real pony!  Today they went to a place called Tanglewood Farms and were able to see and pet all sorts of animals and she got to ride another pony.  When she got home today and was telling me about everything she said, "It was just AMAZING!" I'm so happy that they got to do such fun outings with Gigi and Papa.  Robby and I were very thankful to be able to sleep in this morning.  What a treat! 

Our party was great. We have such fun and crazy neighbors so anytime we all get together it's a blast.  We went to a few different houses and ended at our clubhouse.  The guys enjoyed getting to ride the golf cart around to each house (complete with a Snuggie).

Tonight we had our dinner club.  Our group consists of 6 couples (and the kids).  We get together once a month and rotate who hosts.  We've been doing this for a year now and it's always great to catch up with each other and enjoy a meal together.  Sometimes we do themed dinners and tonight's dinner club was hosted by my brother and sister-in-law, Trey and Stefanie.  They decided to do a traditional holiday meal (which was delicious, but honestly I'm just happy to not have to cook so anything would sound good to me :-)).  They also suggested tacky Christmas sweater/attire.  Robby wore his singing Santa tie and I didn't have any tacky attire, but I did wear the reindeer antlers proudly (compliments of yesterday's birthday party).

Handley just loved getting to visit with Baby Leah and was so happy every time she would smile at her. 

 We were missing a two families tonight, but it was still fun celebrating Christmas with our friends.