Good times with dear friends...gotta love this time of year!

Every year we get together with our dearest friends, the Estes Family and Bayer family, to share Christmas. We did it a bit early this year as it is the year that Derek, Cynthia and Maddox head to St Louis for Christmas and we didn't want to miss celebrating with them. So last Saturday, we all gathered at Neil and Ramona's home as they graciously hosted AND cooked a wonderful holiday dinner for us all. Hatcher and Aidan were mostly excited to see Maddox and baby Sophia but they also knew there would be presents! As always, we had a great time. The boys played hard and ran around for what seemed like hours - until we got them interested in watching Jungle Book. The big boys had a great time catching up and us Mommies stayed busy coralling the little boys. Such wonderul friends...we are so blessed.











I nearly forgot. We started off our Saturday by heading out to Monroe to celebrate Madeline's birthday. She turned 1. It is hard to believe time goes by so fast. It was great to catch up with the Colemans and the Frankes. It was a quick visit as we left there and stopped by Snellville on the way home to see PBo and Marma for a bit. Marma and PBo were having 14 very large trees taken down that day and the boys...and Derek included...wanted to watch the action. I didn't get any good pictures of the boys...but got a couple of Madeline. Happy Birthday sweet thing!