Christmas!!!

 Baby Raborn's 1st Christmas....on the inside! 

  

 

I've had waaaay too much fun dressing up my bump. Christmas was so magical this year knowing I am growing my baby boy inside and our anticipation of how much fun next year will be with him almost 7 months old! 

 

Cody is a fantastic photographer! 

To kick off the Christmas week before Christmas was my Nana's Christmas! She even had a stocking for baby Raborn! Everyone this year was so thoughtful and kind to me about baby Rabe. We've been waiting for this for a long time.

 

Morgan and Tyler came to visit us and it's safe to say, besides me, Cody, and my mom, Lucy definitely favors them!

 

Morgan also brought her dogs over to play with Lucy. Lucy loved all the dogs but Dallas, she was terrified of her and about climbed my head every time she came by. 

Then we moved on to Gigi's Christmas! 

I always love the matching pajamas and this year was extra special because all of the gifts are geared towards baby Raborn!

On Christmas Eve we had Cody's mom's Christmas and look at quite the spread she made for us! It was so amazing and took so much time! She's a rockstar!

Uncle Cody watching all of the stuffed animals for Kaden and I.

 

And the flying turtle was a hit for Kaden!! I'm so glad I decided on that for him this year!

Hello to baby Raborn from the side profile, lol!

Kaden and I made a 'K' gingerbread house for us and honestly it was the most fun I've had in a while! He's one cool kid!

Moving on to Christmas Day! 

We tuckered Lucy out with all the activities of the day. Do you see her perched on the couch?

Cody opened his presents and got an honorary Clark Griswold moose mug!!

 

At the end of the day we got into our Christmas pajamas and drove around looking at Christmas lights! We found so many amazing lights this year!

 

We also tried to put together our own gingerbread house but it came smashed up so we tried to make the best of it. While we built it we watched the Christmas Story.

But the best part of the day by far was having Lucy open her presents from Santa-mama! Just like last year she tore through the presents to get her treats and toys, and just like in last years fashion, each plush toy lasted 10 minutes ha. Even next year when baby Raborn is here, Lucy will still have presents to open. She will always be my first baby and with that being said, will always have presents to open just like my kids. 

We found these non-toxic bubbles to blow for Lucy and she absolutely LOVED them!

Warmest Christmas wishes from the Raborns, we have so much to be blessed for and wish you and your family the best holiday as well. He is risen, He is risen indeed!

Love,

Kayla Raborn

12/25/21

Family Christmas Card!

 Our third year sending out Christmas cards! We sent out cards our first year of marriage with our wedding pictures and our new apartment. Then last year we made sure to send them out because of our new house and new doggie! And this year it is to celebrate the good news of baby Raborn coming! Next year we will send them out to celebrate baby Raborn's birth and his appearance outside the womb lol. The following year we will be pregnant with our little girl, and the year after that to celebrate her arrival as well. But anyways, these are the pictures highlighting our Christmas card we sent out this year! I sent them out way in advance this year and I'm quite proud of myself!

 

 

Our sweet baby girl! Oh how I love Lucy!

 

With Love, 

Kayla Raborn

12/25/21

Raborn Christmas Cookie Baking!

This is our second time baking cookies for family! We (I) did this our first year married and I wanted to do it last year as our first year in our new house gift but with the miscarriage and work and Lucy, I was too sad and too overwhelmed to do so, so here I am this year cranking them out and loving every second!! 

I started off with my Nana's sugar cookie recipe and it turned out pretty good! 

 

Second I made a new cookie recipe I found on pinterest and they were by far the tastiest cookie! So creative combining two amazing flavors in one!

The third cookie was the peanut butter chocolate no bake oatmeal cookies from my Gigi's recipe. They were quite phenomenal. 

We dropped them off to 10 of our families houses and they all loved different cookies from the collection!

The next weekend my brother in law Edgar graduated with his bachelors in computer science from ETSU and we were all so incredibly proud of him! 

 

Also that following Monday we took Lucy to the groomers for the first time ever and to say I was a nervous wreck is an understatement. But she did fantastic and looked amazing! They gave her a bath, blow dried her, sprayed her with jellybean cologne, expressed her anal glands, cut the big clumps of hair from her tail, cleaned her ears out, clipped her nails, and cleaned her teeth! She was so pampered! Aqua dogs grooming is amazing!

 

Love,

Kayla 

12/16/21