Christmas Things

 We put up our Christmas Tree the day before Thanksgiving! The process goes much quicker these days as the girls are so helpful! We had our traditional feast of snacks for lunch!

We did our traditional sushi dinner in downtown Naperville and looked at lights! Can't forget our stop at Cookie Dough Creations afterwards. :)

We went to dinner in downtown Frankfort with Nate's mom and then drove around to look at lights. It was freezing outside, so most of the looking was done from the car (except for this crazy display across several yards in Tinley Park).

Finally did our drive around Naperville to look at lights with our traditional stop at McDonalds for chocolate shakes.

Jemma hosted a Secret Santa party at our house with her friends!

We celebrated Christmas with Nate's mom at our house on the 22nd! We had a great day together and wonderful dinner at Texas Roadhouse. Unfortunately, Jemma began not feeling well that evening and ended up with a fever the next day.

We decided to take it easy Christmas Eve and joined church via live stream! We did still make it out for dinner at Little Italian! The girls wanted to put out milk and cookies for Santa. :)

We had a great Christmas morning at home! We were supposed to go to my parent's house earlier in the day, but in an effort to best keep everyone healthy we waited until the evening! We were so happy to get there in time to visit quickly with Aunt Mar.

The next day my sister and her family arrived. We had Portillo's for lunch and hung out all day. The kids had a blast doing their gift exchange which includes playing various games to win cash! The following day we did more gifts and dinner at Nick's Pizza! We even squeezed in a quick visit with GeeGee.