Here comes Santa!

ok...this is about the 10th time I have sat down to try and write this so hopefully I can get it finished this time!

What a weekend we had here @ the Taulman house.

The weekend started on Friday night with our Small Group party. We headed over to our friends Mike and Bridgette's with our Dirty Santa gift and food for the feast! Bridgette is a WONDERFUL host(I think she should be a party planner) and decided that we would have a pasta bar- each of us brought something different for the pasta that she had made. It was a GREAT idea(one I will steal for sure)- we had yummy sauces, veggies and delicious meatballs along with LOTs of homemade delicious desserts.

Vickys HOMEMADE(we almost fell over when we found out she didn't buy it from Jewel!!) dessert!

Hilary's HOMEMADE chocolate silk pie! (this just makes we want to take a HUGE bit out of it! Everything was VERY yummy....even the host got a chance to enjoy a bite!

After our meal we started the dirty Santa game. Here are the rules...bring something from your house that you have no use for or do not want!!! for example: Last year there was a left-over frozen cake and a bread machine that was so out of date when the 'help line' was called it was a sex line! haha

 This year was full of great gifts too. Each of the gifts had some funny meaning to our group which made it even better. Vicky was the first to go and she got 'left-overs from Jonas'....

this gift consisted of his glasses, a shirt that his students made of him, an old white stained t-shirt, and work pants! IT WAS GREAT

Nathan got baby formula, a pacifier and a used baby toy!  too funny.

The scariest gift of the night was this life size doll that Hilary opened! Mike used it to scary Vicky later in the night!

Overall, the night was full of very fun memories, lots of great friends and many good laughs! I am so thankful for our small group- God has really blessed us by putting each of them into our lives.













Miss Hadleigh was a great baby and entertained us throughout the night too!! (I just love those cheeks!)


Saturday was a perfect day for lounging at home. Nathan was off all day so we stayed at home, watched the snow fall, wrapped Christmas gifts while we listened to Christmas music, then blew up the air mattress that night and watched(well, Nathan watched and I feel asleep) the Saints game.

Sunday we headed to Nathans parents house for the first of our Christmas celebrations! That post will come tomorrow but here are a few pictures from the day...

We just love our niece and nephew to pieces.... Morgan had her hair all curly and looked so stinkin cute and Marek was in his little vest that was just as cute as can be. We opened gifts, ate food, made gingerbread houses, played with dolls and legos and enjoyed spending the day with family
 I will post all of the fun details tomorrow! I can't wait to finally be able to tell what we got out sister-in-law! Overall,the day was truly a gift from God!