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Gabby’s Dollhouse in Charlotte

Over Christmas break, I took each of the girls on separate day trips. Ava and I went to the German Christmas Market in Lawrenceville, GA. I didn’t take any pictures but it was really fun. Zoe and I went to Charlotte to go to the new Camp store in the Southpark Mall where they had an immersive Gabby’s Dollhouse experience. She had a great time with all the fun in the dollhouse and meeting Gabby at the end. We ended the day with a quick trip to Ikea.

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Christmas 2025

We enjoyed a nice Christmas day at home with presents and our traditional Christmas brunch. We watched Christmas movies and played card games and enjoyed our time together as a family.

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Family Christmas Celebrations

We enjoyed our Christmas celebrations with family this year. We spent a day with DJ’s family, a day with my family and an afternoon with my Grandmother. It was so nice to be able to spend that time with everyone.

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Christmas Trees at the Hyatt

We headed downtown over Christmas break to see the annual Christmas trees. This year, not only did Zoe’s dance studio sponsor a tree but her elementary school did also.

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Lessons and Carols 2025

My friend Jennifer and I were in charge of the dessert reception for the Lessons and Carols service at our church again this year. It is always so fun working together on such a special event at our church. We love putting together the food and the decorations.

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Zoe’s Christmas Recital 2025

Zoe’s acro 3 class performed to the song Here Comes the Snow (Let it Snow). She did such a great job with her performance!

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I didn’t buy her dance portraits this year but they got some great ones. She did agree to let me take some at our house, which is why I didn’t buy the dance ones but I wanted to document them here for memories.

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Simpsonville Christmas Parade

Zoe’s dance studio has taken part in the Greenville Christmas parade for a few years now. Each year we debate on doing it but decide not to face the madness and late night. But this year, they added the Simpsonville parade because they opened a second location in Simpsonville. We decided the afternoon parade in Simpsonville was a great way to test the parade idea with Zoe. She was nervous about it but ended up having a blast, even though she was super cold.

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School Dress Up Days

Zoe’s grade celebrated the 80th day of school, which is way more fun than celebrating the 100th because they got to dress up in 80s attire instead of dressing like a 100 year old person. Zoe rocked the 80s look!

Every Friday in December, the school had a dress up day. One was tacky Christmas sweater and another was PJ day. Zoe’s favorite was dress like a Christmas character day. We created a Clara costume from the Nutcracker and she looked so cute.

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Disney on Ice 2025

Thanksgiving weekend Disney on Ice always comes to town. We haven’t been in a few years and decided it was time to go again. Ava decided she wasn’t into it anymore so we had a fun date out with Zoe. She loved it, as did DJ and I.

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Christmas Decorating 2025

We spent the day after Thanksgiving getting our house ready for Christmas. The girls had wanted to decorate earlier but I kept telling them the pumpkins needed to stay out through Thanksgiving. They were both excited to get in the Christmas spirit but did not want their pics taken.