Yea for Mommy! She (by the hair of her chinny chin chin!) snuck in the holiday blog before it turned 2015! Our holiday season started pretty much the moment we finished eating our turkey. There was a lot to squeeze in, you see!
Ready, set, go!!
The official tree lighting at the Paddock Shops (we're feeling festive already!)
How many Hobens does it take to put up Christmas decorations?
Carful o' kiddos off to the underground light show!
Mommy's favorite lights in the show
Quite possibly the most joyful part of the season, Peppermint Chocolate Chip Milkshake time at Chick-fil-a
(You've heard of doublefisting? We call this doublestrawing....)
Indoor snowballs from Auntie Pea!
Tree hunters
Trimming the Big Gal
The angel putting on the angel
They pretty much didn't stop staring at this tree all month long (and taking ornaments off if your name is Liam)
Writing the uber important letters to Santa!
Waiting in line for a sleighride with Santa isn't so bad when you get to hang out with elves
Sleighride with the Clauses (Liam was a little too starstruck to smile)
Free holiday themed face painting!
Christmas crafting
Who needs presents under the tree when you have empty BOXES!??!
Letters to the Big Guy officially mailed!
Christmas movies galore
We did TONS of cookie baking... I mean TONS
Some of us were more concerned with the sprinkles than the cookie baking/decorating
Even Daddy got to help out with a batch or two this year! ("Here ya go, Daddy, you need more sprinkles!!")
Isn't it funny that one person is always hard at work mixing, baking, decorating, and the other seems to always be shoveling decorations in his face?
The whole mini Hoben gang happy to be in on the Christmas cookie baking action....except for Liam, who is clearly saying "WHERE ARE THE FRIGGIN SPRINKLES LADY??"
The No Pants Cookie Dance
Pumped for gingerbread house assembly
Team Gingerbread House, Phase 2
Chief Icing Taster
The Village
Good thing I got that pic of the completed village when I did, 'cause then I caught these stinkers (and Fluttershy the Pony) trying to eat candy decorations off the poor thing the next day
Putting cookies and milk out for Santa and carrots for the reindeer
(Quality Control Expert, Liam Hoben)
Whew, he can get in now!
The annual Night Before Christmas reading
It's always hard to decide which gifts are the favorites because they just love everything so much, but here are just one of each amid the Christmas morning chaos.
The traditional Hoben Christmas Casserole
Liam was all gussied up in a supercute Christmas suit for Christmas dinner, but not too gussied up to try and muck up Aunt Mary's fancy Christmas decorations
Again, boxes....
Dear Santa, thank you for the bath crayons.... I think??
Again, thank you for the M&M dispensers?? (I'm starting to wonder about this Santa character)
Capping off the season with a shopping spree at Toys R Us from Auntie E. Pretty lucky babes!
