December 2024 Wrap-Up

As I reflected back on December to what the "highlights" of the month were, I realized quite a lot transpired in our world in a mere 31 calendar days: Derek's work trip to Japan, concert season for the girls (I think we had a total of five performances between the two of them in a one week span of time!), the culmination of Hadley's volleyball season, Hadley's honor band audition, a marathon of essay writing for Shelby, Shelby getting her braces off, and Christmas! And to cap off the month and year with a real bang, we discovered on the 27th that we had lice in our house. It was a doozy, and it's too soon for me to talk about yet, ha! 

I thought that I wouldn't have too many photos to include in this post as I already posted all of our Christmas pics in separate posts...apparently, I was way off! And the kids clearly played a lot of Monopoly this month!! Without further ado, here we go!

{waiting for Shelby's concert to begin!}

{Brady was eager to learn cursive, so we started that journey recently!}

{Advent reading...Derek always has to read Christmas Trolls!}

{Brady reading part of Luke to us during Advent from a little bible my Grandma Jane gave to me}

{opening a Christmas package from BooBoo (yay for mouse nut cookies!) after a volleyball game}

{ugly sweater day at church! Shelby made her ugly sweater at a "girls' night" with her small group}

{Hadley's first band concert!}

{these two stole my phone for a quick selfie before Shelby's jazz band concert}

{while we waited for the concert to begin, Brady was doing an activity book & Hadley was making bracelets}

{after Shelby's concert, the kids were having dessert and Brady was presenting his share book on otters to everyone...while Derek casually added a button to one of Shelby's shirts}

{we met Derek for lunch on base one afternoon and then headed over to the Arts & Crafts Center} 

{Hadley was on pancake duty while Derek was in Japan}

{movie night...a screening of Scrooge as selected by Shelby}

{a random dinnertime pic we snapped to send to Derek while he was in Japan}

{Hadley loved her Christmas press-on nails!}

{crocheting by the fire}

{I love watching them to do handwork while I read aloud at night}

{writing Christmas thank you notes}

Grateful for another month filled with memories!