The Held Family Happenings: December 2014?!

I am SOOOOOO far behind on my blogs! There have been so many entries that I have started but never finished. By now, I feel like so much time has passed and I question whether or not it is even worth trying to catch up with it! A large part of me does want to try to capture what we've been doing over the past few months so later on, I can look back on the memories! It is so dang hard to keep up though! Seriously - what happened to the days where I'd update my little corner of the internet a few times a week?! Now, I am lucky if it is a few times a year! Honestly, I really want to try and put forth a bigger effort to keep up with the things going on in our lives. I mainly do it for my kids, so we have a scrap book of sorts to look back but I also feel it gives me a little bit of 'me' time to sit, relax and get my thoughts out. 2015 and will be my year to get back on the wagon!

But first.....let me try catching up with some of our holiday fun in December!

At the beginning of the month, we signed up to do Christmas Mini's (a mini photoshoot) with Jennifer Marie. We've used her several times and I thought it would be a good opportunity to get my Christmas Card picture(s). Boy.....was I wrong! Leah did a great job and I was so proud of her. She cooperated, smiled when told and was a great listener. Mason....on the other hand wanted NOTHING to do with pictures. He clung to me for dear life the entire time. It stressed me out! Every time I placed him next to Leah, he threw a fit and cried. There was ONE picture that she quickly snapped where Mason sat still for 5 seconds. Shortly thereafter, he jumped and he was done! I was so disappointed. I joked that Leah was going to be the only one on our Christmas Card!Here are a few pictures from our shoot.

This is the ONLY picture Mason was in.....

After our pictures, we decided to head to the mall to see Santa. Luckily, Mason was a bit more cooperative with Santa than he was for Jennifer. He also let me take a few pictures on my own. I ended using these for our Christmas card!

Later that same day, we had a party where we got to meet our friends new baby! They had a face painter!

In mid-December, Leah had a little holiday program at her preschool. They sang a few songs. It was cute!

Leah and her sweet friend Laney

Ready to take the stage!

Also in December, we had our annual girl's holiday dinner too! This year we went to Catch 35 in downtown Naperville. It was d-lish and so fun to catch up with the girls - there were 12 of us!

Me and my BFF - Katy!

My sweet grab bag gift! These frames have displays for every holiday! Such a cute idea! Love it!

During the rest of the month, we did enjoy other holiday fun too! We went and looked at Christmas lights, baked Christmas cookies, celebrated December birthdays, went to Winter Wonderfest at Navy Pier and spent the holidays with family!

Navy Pier Fun!