we love our best friends!!

let me just start by saying how thankful i am for our best friends. we're blessed to have AMAZING friends. for their companionship, yes... but mostly because they are all just good people. we get to have tons of great role models for our children to look up to, and great kids for our boys to be best buddies with. ginna, justin, austin, scotty, lizzie, and brookie, tif, john, keira, scharae, jojo, jess, i love you guys. thank you for loving us unconditionally and being our friends. we are so grateful for you all!

the following pics are from our 6th annual ornament exchange tonight bear with me, i had to get one of each person with their ornament. this year we GAVE from youngest to oldest


some are obvious from the photos, but here's the breakdown for this year...
brookie to jess-nativity
boomer to mama-kitty gymnast(picked it out THOUGHTFULLY on his own!)
scharae to john-handcrafted complete with alphabet noodle to and from names
keira to scharae-same, but different names and of course keira made hers with green!
jax to daddy-"bot barker" (quarter sized clay robot dressed like bob barker-jason's idol)
lizzie to jax-letter to santa (love having the year on it)
jess to boomer- thomas and friends
scotty to keira-jack skellington (keira was SO in love with it!)
jojo to brookie-giraffe bank "second christmas"
me to tif-froggie in a pond
tif to lizzie-christmas tree globe (she flew all the way to holland just for it!)
jason to jojo-a globe for the globetrotter
john to scotty-a sock monkey

it was lots of fun this year. we went out to birch bay to the calder's amazing resort hotel condo for our party. we had lots of good food, conversation,giftgiving, wrestling matches, dessert,dances and giggles!! i'm really sad that we only have one more day with the calders, but i'm so glad we've had a jam-packed week of memory making times with them! it will probably be 5 more months until the next time we see them!