Full swing Christmas time

Tis the season!
We are now officially finished with our Christmas shopping but so far behind on wrapping and sending the gifts that it isn't funny! Besides that, we are slowly sending out our Christmas cards in shifts. Ha, ha the joy of having loved ones everywhere!
Yesterday, we had a holiday party here at our house. It was mainly for the company grade officers and their families of Ben's squadron. We had a blast and are so thankful to have such great friends to celebrate the season.
Today we had the traditional Christmas party for the squadron. It comes complete with santa being flown in on a huey (which Ben got to do last year!), a bouncy house & bouncy walk, and other activites. It is always so much fun to see the kids and adults alike staring in awe at santa flying in....yeah we are a little different here in NC!! Kendall was absolutely terrified of santa just like she was of the easter bunny so I guess we will see if that goes away with time!
We are hosting our friends, John and Jennifer, tomorrow night for a nice quiet holiday meal. They are good friends that Ben had made from A&M and we will be so sad to see them be restationed here shortly. They will be making the journey to Hawaii for 4 years pretty soon. I guess that is the way of military life.
Monday we are going to have a girls luncheon at Olive Garden for one of our friends (Erin) whose husband is deployed for the holidays. We all pitched in for a massage for her as well as a goodie basket to ease the pain of seperation during this time!
Well guess that is it for the updates right now :-)