Gingerbread Houses

Tonight we held our 2nd Annual Gingerbread House Party. We had so much fun with our friends and the decorating definitely didn't disappoint! (the pictures are really grainey, sorry about that!). The Thomas family was not able to hold on to their title of "decorator extraordinaire" and the Phelps were very happy about that. Congratulations to everyone for a job well done!

Our little house. Ryan is so kindly pointing to the dog on the front lawn who made yellow snow

Ryan in the midst of decorating

Margaret Lee with her story book house

Shelley working ever so hard to hold on to her title!

They look so appetizing...

So I was glueing together gingerbread houses today for our party tomorrow. Samuel has walked by this stack of house pieces about 100 times, but this morning I guess he decided he just couldn't pass them up one more time!!! So to whomever gets this special house, I am sorry for the big bite missing by the door and roof!!! Thanks for understanding!

I love this little boy!

My mom got Samuel a few really cute outfits for the holiday season. Today for church we put this cute one on that has a reindeer on it. It's a little big, but he is cute nonetheless! Here we are in front of the tree. Samuel is mesmerized by the tree, will walk up to it and point at all the ornaments. He won't touch them because he has been STRONGLY advised not to, though I can see he is dying to touch them all! I just love him to death!

Which one will he pick?

We went to pick out our Christmas tree tonight. I caught a few pictures of Samuel meandering through the trees trying to pick the perfect one!

I feel like he looks like a little boy, not so much a baby! Sad but fun!

Santa Baby

We took our Christmas pictures the other day. Here are some of my favorites!

Savannah

We went to visit our friends Erica and Daniel this week in Savannah. It was a pretty chill week with visits to several parks, a stop to see some old teaching friends, and even a ghost tour. We really had a great time!

The view from their house. They literally sit at the edge of the marsh and it was absolutely breathtaking to sit and watch as the tide went out and came back in.

Samuel crawling through the tunnel.

going down the slide

my sweet friend Erica, Toby, and Samuel at the playground.

at Fort Pulaski. Ryan showing Samuel where the enemy came in!

Samuel showing us what he learned from the educational video. Loading the cannon.

He is so fun

We spent much of this morning letting Samuel run wild and then attempting to grab him for a picture! This is what it looked like most of the time!

At Forsyth park.

We saw a sliver of a rainbow, I tried to capture it, but it didn't quite look the same in the picture. Still pretty though!

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