Christmas

We had a great Christmas. I know it was forever ago, but I wanted to put some pictures up anyway! We hosted for the first time ever and it was SO great being at our house! We loved having the kids wake up at our house for Christmas morning. They were SO excited! I think they would have been happy to play with their stockings all day. It was really overwhelming to them how many gifts there were to open. Lucy even laid down for a while! They were so excited about each thing and wanted to play with each thing for a long time. We opened presents for hours. We loved having Everett here with us this Christmas! What a gift he is to our family!

Belle opening the one gift she had actually asked for...a sleeping beauty doll.
The girls loved using scissors to cut their ribbons.

Mommy was there too!
Lucy taking a rest.

Belle so excited about her new Leapster.
I loved getting to fix Christmas breakfast. (I forgot to take a picture before.) We had breakfast casserole and pumpkin/chocolate chip birthday cake for Jesus. The girls thought it was so fun singing happy birthday to Jesus. And the night before Belle asked if Jesus was going to be there for his party and if she could give him a present wrapped in paper. So cute.
The girls made our tree topper this year.

My brother holding Everett.

SNOW!

So its been a while now since the snow, but we had a snow week here in South Carolina and it was lots of fun! Admittedly I was ready for the snow to be gone by the end of the week, but we had a good time playing in it for a couple of days and surprisingly we enjoyed our time inside too. We stayed at our house for the entire week. We went to church on Sunday, it started snowing that night, and we didn't leave the house again until church the next Sunday. I think it was the longest I've ever stayed home!

One of the girls' favorite Christmas presents:One of many ways they have found to use it:

Belle doesn't nap anymore, but a few sundays ago she and i both fell asleep on the couch. It was amazing.

New Years

We had a fun New Years Day with some friends. We ate a New Years meal and the guys watched some football. Look at all these kiddos and Daddies! So cute!

And the mommies...

Cute Boy!

Christmas Crafts

We loved making Christmas crafts this year!

Sick Days

Before Christmas we were all sick for a while. Fortunately we got it over with before Christmas and we were well to enjoy it! We don't like being sick, but we did take advantage of the extra cuddle time with the girls!

HAIRCUT!

I finally gave Lucy her first haircut! She was 27 months and was in definite need, but I kept putting it off because I was afraid she would lose her cute curls. She did lose the curls, but she still looks cute! I think it makes her look older.

Before

Apparently we forgot to take an after pic of the haircut, so here's a picture of the back of her head on christmas morning so you can see what it looks like post haircut.

Playgroup Dinner

We LOVE our playgroup! Unfortunately we haven't seen each other too much over the last couple of months, but we did get together before Christmas for a dinner with the daddies too.