December

December has been an exciting month.  Hannah is really starting to understand Christmas and it has been so fun to watch her excitement grow!  She loves the tree, and asks every morning to do the Advent Calendar.  She has been very good with the ornaments, looking at them and showing me her favorites, but never actually taking them off of the tree.  She has also been awesome with the presents!  The beginning of December was busy with Christmas parties to go to and then the preparations for our first Christmas party!  It was so fun to plan a menu of appetizers and desserts and look for lots of decorations to make our home pretty and festive!!  We had a great time and while I made too much food, everyone had a great time!

Christmas was so fun this year!  Hannah loved her presents and played with every single one!!  Her big gift this year was a play kitchen that my very talented brother-in-law made.  Hannah's eyes lit up when she saw and was just so excited!  We have been enjoying cooking lots of food!!  My parents were able to come up for a few days over Christmas so that was so fun to have them there.  We went to church on Christmas Eve and just hung out Christmas day enjoying each other and opening presents.  Then Christmas afternoon, we had Matt's aunt and uncle join us for a delicious Christmas dinner.  It was a nice day full of special memories!  The day after Christmas we had a fun visit with the Goforths! And then the weekend after Christmas, Aunt Melissa and Uncle Eric came up for a visit.  It was definitely a busy week but so much fun!!!

The biggest news of our month is that Matt changed jobs!  He interviewed with a company called Thornburg and is their new wholesaler for the Carolinas and Tennessee.  He is super thrilled though sad to be leaving some great friends at John Hancock.  We look forward to all of the opportunities he has with his new company!

We finished out 2013 with a little New Years Eve party at our house.  We had two very special families up for the night.  There were 6 adults, 2 two year olds, 1 one year old, and 2 infants!  It was a little crazy but so much fun!!  We are thankful for 2013 and all of the blessings it has brought us and we look forward to 2014!!!