Hester Happenings

  Our family has a tradition of going to Providence Church on Christmas Eve with the Gardenhire family. We also always get pictures of the girls together in age order. Because Katie couldn't be there we face-timed her so you can see her on the ipad if you look closely.         The Gardenhire family:     On Christmas Day my family opened some more presents and ate breakfast together. Then Jeff and I came back to our house to quickly exchange presents. Jeff got me a Rachael Ray food scooper, a new alarm clock, and a new purse.     I got Jeff a smoker and some wood chips to use in the smoker.     We then went over to Reggie and Korrie's house to exchange presents with them. We gave the boys some stuffed animals that say things while you read the book they came with.         We then had Christmas dinner with Jeff's whole family and his sister...

  My family celebrated Christmas a little early this year. Because of Katie's chemo schedule her white blood cell levels would be too low on Christmas week, so we celebrated the weekend before. We first went to a restaurant named Gravy in downtown Raleigh.     We got some delicious Italian food!   Unfortunately Hunter couldn't join us for dinner because he had to work that night...so we went to visit him! When we got home the sisters went to the best decorated house in Cary for our annual 'light show'.   Next came the annual tradition of Christmas pjs.             We then opened presents from Katie, Wil, and my parents.       We finished off our Christmas celebration with some lunch that my dad made.     I especially love this time of year because of the wonderful time we get to spend with family celebrating the birth of ou...

  It's that time of the year again! We first went Christmas tree shopping with my parents at the farmer's market in Raleigh.   After tree shopping we went out for dinner at Bonefish grill. Lauren and Hunter got to join us for this part!   After dinner we went back to my parent's house to decorate the tree.     Next it was our turn to decorate our house. We first got our own tree and the decorated the tree and the rest of the house for Christmas.         I love this time of the year, especially all of the time we get to spend with family!