Goodbye Barkley!

It is always sad when we have to tell Barkley goodbye! This year, Barkley left Braden and Nolan a little note since they would not be here on Christmas Eve. Nolan left a little note in return. :) 

All Aboard....

Two Christmas traditions in the Baird house are to look at Christmas lights and to get matching pajamas for Christmas Eve. Usually we open the pjs on Christmas Eve so we are picture ready on Christmas day. However, this year we did not have the littlest boys on Christmas Eve so we changed it up a little bit and combined two of our favorite traditions. All Aboard the Enclave Express....we had the pajamas waiting for them on their bed. After a quick dinner, we sent them upstairs to shower and put on their new pajamas. We then all climbed into the Enclave to go see Christmas lights. It was super fun. 

We stopped at the Bowersock house to say hello and they took a family matching pj picture for us!

The Grinch

Every Year, our sweet librarian at school acts out a Christmas story. This year she did How the Grinch Stole Christmas. We always get to wear our pajamas to school. Some of the fourth grade teachers wore Grinch pajamas and got to pose with the Grinch herself! :) Davis and Kamie Bowersock also joined my class to hear the story. They were so cute! :) 

Barkley is Back!

Barkley, our shelf elf, reappeared on the Monday morning after Thanksgiving. We love our shelf elf and can't wait to see where he will be and what he will do each morning. We enjoyed all of his many antics over the month of December!

Walk Through Bethlehem

Every year a local church has an event called Walk Through Bethlehem. Although I have lived in the area for over 25 years, this is the first year I have actually walked through. I was totally missing out! It is such a great event! We went because Logan actually volunteered for hours through his teen service group. We figured if he was there working that we should go through it before picking him up. I wish we would have allowed more time. Next year, we will certainly add this to our Christmas traditions and will make sure to give ourselves at least 2 hours to fully enjoy the entire town! 

 Logan and Kyle teaching Braden and Nolan about bread making

Logan and his friend, Kyle, made great shepherd volunteers. 

Tree Pictures

On the way out of town, we always stop to say goodbye to Mamaw and take the yearly tree pictures. It is fun to compare how much everyone has grown from year to year! 

A Day at the Farm

What a beautiful day to spend at the farm! The Saturday after Thanksgiving is always spent at the farm, rain or shine....this year, the weather was gorgeous! We went up early to get the fire going and then everyone else trickled in later. We roasted marshmallows, carved names into Indian Rock, and shot guns! It was a fun day had by all, but it was especially fun for Stirling and Duncan! 

 We are ready for our day at the farm! 

 We stopped by Papaw's gravesite first to check on the flowers....they didn't look too bad. 

 Mine and Nolan's initials are now carved into Indian Rock! 

 A man and his dog! Duncan LOVEd being on the farm....he could care less about the cactus stickers that Steve had to pull out of his nose and paws! 

 Braden on fire

 In our cute matching hats that Mimi got us...Kasie and the Jennifers. :)