Christmas Visits
12/19/2018
We've entertained a lot of visitors in recent weeks.
'Tis that season!
My college roommate and friend Leah visited with 4 of her children one morning. We have an annual tradition of getting together to decorate Christmas cookies.
This was my daughter helping make cookies to decorate with our friends. She was very excited to help with this and was actually quite helpful. We were a good cookie-making team!
Here Leah made the frosting glaze while our little girls looked on intently.
Lots of fun decorating cookies together and, of course, eating some as well.
Then on my daughter's birthday - as she turned 5 - we invited her friend Addie over, who shares the exact same birthday! The girls played dress up together and also decorated Christmas cookies.
Everyone had fun with new shimmering Do-Dots. Between my 3 little people, Addie and her little brother, it felt like we were teaching a PreSchool class that day.
We also had my daughter's friend (and nextdoor neighbor) Jolene over for a playdate and more cookie decorating.
We've continued to host a weekly small group in our home on Thursday nights. Last Saturday we had all those families over for brunch. This picture shows one of our small group families, with their 8 children!
Here's our family room set up for all 24 people!
And we hosted my husband's side of the family for Thanksgiving in November and will host them again for Christmas this weekend.
The holidays mean visitors and hosting. I love that we can open up our home for events like all of these. God has blessed us with space to host big groups of people and we are the ones who are blessed as we invite others in and do life together!
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