Over the river and through the woods...

...to Grandmother's house we go!

After all the snow melted we made our way to Atlanta, Georgia, to visit Harrison's grandmother or "Gigi" as we like to call her. This was Bragan's first time meeting his Gigi. It was such a fun and memorable visit. We ate, caught up with family, and played a few rounds of MadGab.

White (day after) Christmas

What a great Christmas gift...a beautiful blanket of snow! We had a blast playing in it. It was so much fun introducing Bragan to his first snow!




I think it is so funny looking at these pictures now...we thought this was a lot of snow! ...little did we know what was coming our way a few short weeks later!







It might have taken all the snow from the back yard, but they built a respectable snow man. I love that Maddie is wearing her dress shoes with her snow clothes. Always a classy little lady!

The Big Christmas Post

Christmas this year was FANTASTIC! We have so many wonderful blessings to be thankful for and we could not have had a more fun day. We celebrated Jesus' birthday and enjoyed a day FULL of family, food, and fun!

{Waiting to come down the stairs to see what Santa brought!}

{Look what Santa brought!}

{Bragan enjoying his new goodies.}

{The stockings from left to right: Bragan's, Harrison's, mine, and Maddie's.}

After opening presents at our house, we headed over to the Gray's to exchange gifts!

{All of the Gray gals.}

{Our little family}

{Maddie playing with her new doll clothes.}

{Mimi and Elizabeth with their matching gifts. Elizabeth in her new awesome boots!}

After we finished up at the Gray's, we all headed over to my parents' house to have Christmas dinner and exchange gifts. We are so blessed that our families get together on holidays. It is always a blast and our crowd continues to grow each year :)

{Hanging out after dinner.}

{What a good looking group of folks!}

{Bragan and his Uncle David.}

{Grampy and Bragan snuggling.}

{Al and Ellie.}

{...and the night ended with the usual Maddie & Ellie shenanigans! Never a dull moment with these two!}

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was wonderful again this year. We went to our 20^th (somewhere around there) annual Fisher/Alexander girls Christmas Eve lunch at Groucho’s. I am kicking myself for not getting any pictures! The four of us went to the 4pm Christmas Eve service at our church, Shandon Baptist. It was beautiful and moving, as always and did a great job of reminding us what Christmas is all about. After church, we headed home to prepare for the 3^rd annual Christmas Eve homemade pizza extravaganza. We have really loved this tradition because who wouldn’t love good food and good company?

Jolly Old St. Nicholas

We waited and waited and waited...

…and waited some more to see Santa Claus

…and someone slept right through it!

Christmas at Timmerman

Madison’s school put on a 1^st grade Christmas pageant and Madison was Mrs. Claus. Her buddy Myles was Santa Claus. It was absolutely adorable and everyone did a GREAT job! I was so proud of how brave Madison was to be up on the stage.

Gingerbread House Fiasco

...soooo our annual tradition of decorating a gingerbread house did not end in a pretty sight. Halfway through decorating the roof, it fell into shambles. We had to chuck our first attempt and use a pre-assembled one for the second attempt. I did not even manage to get a picture of the new one, but here is the first in all it’s glory!

{eck sticky mess!}

We saw several people at Target with the same faulty kit in their buggies after our tragic event. Maddie and I were tempted to tell them to put it back!

Alabama

As part of our residency interview tour we made a trip to Birmingham, Alabama. Mimi (Harrison's mom) has family there so we took advantage of our trip and spent several days with them. Mimi and Grandaddy (Harrison's dad) came along. Madison was thrilled to meet all of her sweet cousins and we loved introducing Madison and Bragan to them all.

{Madison and her sweet cousins}

{Madison and Marleigh after playing out in the cold!}

{Aunt Sally, Uncle Victor, and Mimi}

{More cousins}