What the New Year!?!

Well, Christmas has come and gone, and I sure haven’t gone and posted anything lately! Here’s the update:

We had a lovely holiday. About a week prior to Christmas we made “cookie houses” for Family Home Evening. Jack loved it (by “it” I mean eating the candy he was supposed to be putting on the candy house!). He especially loved the green “dummy” bears (aka, gummy bears). By the way, Jack has decided that green is his favorite. He likes to announce that every time something green is available. (Mommy, can I have a Skittle? I want the green one, green is my favorite!) I broke with the whole “house” theme and made a cookie and candy ship. Tyler called it the good ship lollipop, but you can clearly see that there are no lollipops on that ship.

Here are the girls in their Christmas finery. Whooo whooo.

Started on Christmas Eve with a tasty turkey dinner. Corey and Jenni once again graced us with their presence (and presents, too, but that was just a fringe benefit!).
We opened a few presents from the Birds—look how cute the kids look in their new PJ’s!

Christmas morning we opened tons of gifts, joined Tyler’s sister’s family for breakfast. We then stayed for lunch and dinner (Grandpa Larry and Grandma Diane joined us!). It was even a white Christmas—2-4 new inches before morning! The kids loved their gifts--our family and friends were extremely generous! Thank you!

This Sunday we finished up family holiday stuff with Tyler’s brother (and all the siblings that were out here for Christmas!). Oh, what fun! We didn’t bring our camera, tho, so we’re hoping to get some from family members (hint hint!).

Hope y’all had a lovely holiday. We’re kickin’ it at home this New Year’s, just put Jack to bed after a sweet party with munchies and dancing. We'll be living the crazy life and watching the latest Pirates of the Carribean. Bet you wish you’d been invited!