Making gingerbread people with MiMi
Opening up presents from Granddad, Michelle and Mackenzie! Thanks so much!!
They sent the Night Before Christmas recordable book and they recorded themselves reading the book.
Gifts from Mommy and Daddy
Cody's gifts to us
We have a great group of boys who play together every Friday. We play soccer at Little Kickers and then always head somewhere to play. On December 11th, we all came to our house for a Christmas present swap! All the boys brought one gift and we numbered them. They drew out a number and that was their gift. It went VERY well and they had a blast! The only boy missing was AJ, who we missed!!
Cody, Oliver, Marc, Marco, SM, Jake and Cooper
Showing off their presents before tearing into them
Every year, my family gets together at The Bartels house for our Family Christmas. This year, there was more excitement because Jessica announced her exciting news....she's PREGNANT! We are so excited for the new little one to get here!
In other news...Andrea and Glenda always put together a beautiful spread of homemade goodies for us. They decorate the table beautifully and the food is YUMMY!
My favorite is always the multi-layered chocolate cake. "So good it will make you slap yo' momma!" Not kidding!
Cody and Davis have a great time playing together.
The boys racked up on presents! Not to mention Isabelle got her fair share as well!
Here was the big announcement! We play dirty Santa with the adults and Jessica had put in the mix a gift that contained a burp cloth. Daddy picked it and wanted to know "Was this supposed to mean something?" Of course, Jessica took the cloth back, but let Daddy keep the gift card she also put in the bag. :)
Cody was VERY excited that we got a Snuggie. 
All the ladies in the family. This was the best out of the 5 pictures that we took!
Love these boys! Born exactly 2 years apart, almost to the minute!! Cody is glad to share his birthday with his favorite cousin!
We LOVE Elf on the Shelf. Their website is even more Christmas fun. Cody and MiMi found Christmas Cookies that you could make online and the elves would bake them and give them to Santa. This consumed almost EVERY day until Christmas. I think Santa got more than 100 cookies from the McAbee household!
We went to the Pink Pig at Lenox Square on December 17th with MiMi, Cooper and Mrs. Deb. It was Cooper's first time and the boys rode alone! They are growing up too quickly...they didn't want us on there at all!
We took our annual trip to Lake Lanier's Magical Night of Lights on December 15th. MiMi came with us and we had a great time!
They actually had stopping points this year and Cody wanted his picture made with the dino.
Going through the fun house
Of course he had to ride the NASCAR ride in none other than Jimmy's car.
Cody's first ride on the Himalaya! This was my favorite fair ride when I was younger and he LOVED it!!
Having a great time on the motorcycle ride.
Smiling with MiMi in the Christmas Village
Our annual picture in front of the calliope!
Enjoying his cotton candy on the ride home.
