Christmas Parties.

December is always such a fun month- so many Christmas parties and events to attend. It made the month fly by and I just noticed on our baby registry that it says 24 days to go. Holy crap.

The squadron Christmas party is always a lot of fun and full of colorful characters. It is a 500+ person event held at a hotel downtown. A good time to catch up and enjoy the season!

My hubby was looking super cute and had a hard time picking out something to wear because all his clothes are too big! I, on the other hand, am not having that problem. Luckily I chose a festive color for our October baby shower and could wear the dress again.

In mid-December we attended the Moran's annual Ludachristmas party- a tradition that began when we were neighbors in Japan. There, we had the party on Christmas day night since many people stayed in Japan for the holidays since it was so expensive to fly home, but now it is held another weekend. I bought my sweater at Salvation Army for $2.09 and I made my  necklace (although I think my mom had one quite similar circa 1993).

On Christmas Eve, we had Glenn's family in town (his sister, BIL, mom and grandma) and we invited our close friends the Polsons and the Morans to join us. It is always fun to mix our real family and our Navy family and enjoy good food together. It was Glenn's best roast beast to date!

Glenn's sweater was ordered for the Ludachristmas party, but it didn't come on time so he wore it for Christmas eve instead. Perhaps it will make an appearance next year along with those festive red pants (although I think those can be worn all year long!) Side note, we also found out that the Morans are staying in Norfolk for the next 3 years (at least 1.5-2 of which we will be here as well)!

I hope your holiday season was filled with as much fun, family time and relaxing as ours has been. We are looking forward to a busy/crazy/exciting and baby-filled January!