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I love christmas cards. Doing them, getting them and watching friends and family grow over the years.  

 Our playlist of Christmas music!

 The stamps Ryder and I picked this year are one of our favorites!

And this year, I had a little helper put the stamps in place!

We are looking forward to getting these in the mail!❤︎

A family holiday tradition...

The weekend after Thanksgiving, we head to Redlands to spend the day together, getting my parents house decorated for Christmas.  It involves lots of talking, laughing, eating, more laughing, more talking, and more eating...❤︎

 Every child in our family has LOVED that nativity scene...

 She nailed the bulb placement...

We then of course needed to take a break and eat amazing food:

We headed to downtown for a new family favorite!

 Oh my gosh... it was SO GOOD!

We then needed to burn off some energy with some Irish darts:

Then we headed home to relax before dinner:

 I love everything about this day.  I feel like we share thankfulness and grateful hearts with each other, and then we move into the celebration of the Christmas season!

I really love this time of year and I adore this family of ours!

Now for Christmas...

The day after Thanksgiving, we headed to the theaters to see "The Star".  Oh it was so good! I see it becoming a holiday favorite/tradition for us to watch each year...

Then we headed up to Cambria to see Christmas lights!

Photos do not do it justice.  It is reallya magical experience...

It was SO fun welcoming the holiday season with this experience!  And also, we won the grandparent lottery...❤︎

We love every chance we get to be with our Grandi and Monkey Papa!

Thanksgiving 2017

We were with our family in Santa Maria for Thanksgiving this year.  We had so much fun!

Here were some snapshots of the day!

 Oh how we love our Grandpa Pierce...

We had a pretty special day being with our family.  Mutiple times, I looked around and thought how thankful I was for the family that we have.  There are no words to describe what a gift are to me!