2022 Blue Jeans Week 52

Wrapping up the last week of 2022 with Christmas day to New Year's Eve.  It was a good week.  Very relaxing.  On Christmas Day we got to serve at a soup kitchen which was very rewarding.  We have never done that before on Christmas Day.  We enjoyed playing lots of games that we got for Christmas and went to the city to see some lights and out to eat.  Pretty low key New Year's Eve.  We were all in bed before midnight.  We are just so exciting :)  Take a look at our last week of 2022...

Christmas Day--their gifts to each other.  Mr J got cereal and Miss E got chocolate.  

Christmas Day before heading to church.  We sang in the choir and Ben spoke. It was a beautiful and very full service.  Perfect for Christmas.  Miss E sporting her new dress she got for Christmas. 

Christmas Day for lunch we helped serve at a soup kitchen.  It is the same one we always help with, but this year since Christmas was on a Sunday they decided to serve, and it was very, very busy.  Mr J and Miss E were in charge of drinks.

Ben was in charge of serving the pie.  Yummy!  It was a great experience for us to do this on Christmas Day. 

Day after Christmas Ben had off and we spent the whole day playing our new games we got.  Lots of fun!

On the Tuesday after Christmas we went to see the new Avatar movie in 3D with our friends.  We all loved it!

We actually had a white Christmas this year!  Miss E and I enjoyed walking in the snow on the trails this week.

Since we were out of town for Thanksgiving and didn't get to bring home any leftovers on the plane, we decided to do our own Thanksgiving.  On the 28th we cooked all day and made all the good things and invited some friends over to help us eat it all.  So yummy!!!

Played lots of games this week.  These two decided to play right by the front door in the sun.

Headed up to the city for some fun on Friday.  Went out to eat at the Black Bear Diner.  Yummy!

Went to the Giving Machines and donated some awesome things.  Love this!

Had tickets to a fun lights display.

The light tunnel...I think Ben is yawning. :)  It was a long day but fun!

My last cake for the year.  This is my December cake we had on New Year's Eve.  It is the birthday cake recipe from the Milk Bar bakery in NYC.  It was really yummy!

New Year's Eve!  We took this about 11:40 p.m. and then headed to bed.  We had played games, ate yummy food and watched a movie, and we were all ready to head to bed.  Happy New Year!  Here's to a great 2023!!

Thanks for being with us on our journey this year!  Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year's and are looking forward to 2023!  See you next week!