Christmas in North Carolina!

December was quite the CRAZY month! So much happened and I feel so blessed to have spent it surrounded by family and friends! I graduated, got a job, moved, and I'm now a Army Reserves wife... not an Active Duty one, and overall just have a brand new life about to start in 2010! I am so excited!

I got back to Atlanta on the 17th and hung-out there with Zach and his family until we left Monday the 21st to spend Christmas with his sister, bro-in-law, and our little cute nephew Caleb in NC! It had snowed the weekend before and was so pretty! Snow everywhere!! We didn't get to see any fall, but I enjoyed the ice anyway! Leigh Anne, his sister, had everything planned out and we just really had a fun week...

We had a gingerbread house contest (mine a is the far left, Z did the middle one with his mom)!
A tacky Christmas sweater party!

Played a fun game of Dirty Santa!A Christmas Day filled with lots of laughs, memories, and gifts!
Went hiking at Hanging Rock in the snow!
Went to church on Christmas Eve and got pro-pics done! (this isn't one! lol) Sadly Josh was working and couldn't join us :(

We decorated cookies, celebrated my graduation with a chocolate, chocolate cake!, had a Happy Birthday Jesus pizza party, shopped, shopped, and did some more shopping, ate so many goodies and home cooked meals by LA, and just enjoyed everyone's company! Thanks so much to LA and Josh for hostessing such a wonderful time!

-Ashley