Friends and Festivities

Last week was such a busy week, but so much fun. 

Monday afternoon I met up with these sweet girls from our small group and we wrapped Christmas presents at the Grace House wrapping booth at the mall. This is a big fundraiser for GH and we were excited to help out this year. We had so much fun doing it!

Tuesday night daddy had  a basketball game so we decided to make some homemade cookies. Have to admit this is my first time making from scratch sugar cookies, but they turned out good and Fulton had so much fun decorating them. He told me after we finished (as he had flour from head to tow) that getting messy with mommy in the kitchen was his favorite thing to do. Melt my heart right there!! Love these moments. 

Aunt Keri got us some cute Christmas Pj's as she always does. This is her 

tradition and she never disappoints. 

Thursday daddy went in late because he had a meeting close by and we loved the extra time with him. Look at these two in their matching sweaters. 

Fulton had a dentist appointment on Friday and did amazing as always. This guy is a rockstar. He laid there like a statue and never made a peep. He did so good she let him pick out two prizes. Very proud of him. 

We got x-rays for the first time and he was intrigued. He didn't move a muscle. 

After the dentist we met up with some sweet friends and let the boys ride their bikes on the trail. We stopped and had a picnic and enjoyed the beautiful weather. Somebody ended up carrying the bike back to the car... and it wasn't Fulton. 

Fulton is such a rule follower.. I love it!! Let me explain this picture. This is Saturday morning. Have I told you about the bunny clock?? It's a sleep/wake clock and we started it about a month ago to try and get him to stay in his bed longer (or at least not call for us yet). You set the time you want the bunny to wake up and then it tells them they can call for mommy and daddy. It lights up so he can see when the bunny is sleeping or awake. Well, Saturday morning he woke up about 6:45 needing to potty. Matt went in to take him and told him he could go ahead and get up. He was determined to wait to leave the room until the bunny woke up. Here he is just watching the bunny until time. Precious. 

Saturday morning we had a Christmas party in our neighborhood and I think I will do a separate post on that, but we had fun. 

We quickly came home and changed into our jersey because we were heading to Will's 3rd birthday and it was all about sports. We had a great time. 

And Saturday night we had a babysitter for Fulton while we went to our small group Christmas party. I love these people!! We had a great time. The girls did a "favorite things" swap and Vance had some entertaining games for us. 

Yesterday was another great day so we headed to the zoo with our buddy Ford. 

I love these days when no one else is there and we pretty much had the place to ourselves again. 

Last night I worked on baking a few more things and tried to make a green and red layered cake. It didn't really turn out that pretty, but you get the point :)!