It's the most wonderful time of the year....

And of course the busiest!

Everyday has been chuck full of fun stuff going on...

Let's see if I can get it all in... Saturday we had our get together for church at our house, we all kind of rotate every 2 weeks with whose house it will be at. Here's Kent and Austin playing chess...

The little kids playing cars....Cute faces... Jade and Alex....Aurora and Beriah... glued at the hip....

Yummy food...On top of getting together and studying the bible, we thought we throw in a baby shower for our friend Maranda.... can you believe she has another few weeks to go? She is ready!

As soon as we said baby shower, the men cleared the room, they not only cleared the room, they went to the garage! I told them they didn't have to go into the garage for crying out loud, but I guess they didn't want to be any where near the girly baby shower!

The big and little boys also vanished into the game room...

Us girls had the baby shower...Beriah and Aurora again...Another game... trying to find the safety pins in the bowl of rice....All the girls....Here's Maranda and Jeremy, they also have almost 2 year old Hannah...Now onto Sunday... my mom's painting group had their Christmas party. We went out to lunch... thanks mom...Kelsey and Hannah got to see each other again.... so cute, they are just 2 weeks apart....See? They missed each other!!!Then we headed back to Auntie Mary's for some coffee and cookies... Auntie Mary even shared with me one of her cookies from her secret stash--- thank you!!!Madison, Aurora and Jade.... are we just surrounded by cuteness or WHAT????While all us girls were out, Jeromy hung out with the boys: Mason, Kenton and Denny, another group of handsome people!!!Now Monday... I had a cookie exchange Tuesday with my woman's bible study group, I've never done a cookie exchange before so I wanted to make sure I made a cookie I wouldn't ruin. So I made snicker doodles.... here's the start... I had to make 5 dozens....

I started the cookies, but then I had to go to work, so my awesome daughter Jade finished baking the cookies. I couldn't have done it with out her.Now today, we had our cookie exchange. Look at all these yummy cookies!!!

Here's most of the women of our bible group...All the women pitched in and got Jade a card and $25 gift card for Starbucks for being the baby sitter for every one's kids during the bible study, that was so sweet!After we left, I dropped of Jade with Kent, and I ran out and did a little shopping. And I actually got some stuff wrapped, too.

Now I got to go get ready for work. Try to enjoy this time as hectic as it is!