Friday, December 30, 2016

Christmas..

Since everyone was finally going to home at the same time we decided for my mom's Christmas gift we would have pictures taken.
Friday was a very packed day! We headed to the park for pictures, after which we went out for lunch.


After lunch David and I headed home to get stuff together for our Christmas'


Before we could go to David's parents we had to run to my parents to snap a couple pictures since they were doing a Christmas with all my siblings.



We then enjoyed a wonderful evening at David's parent's.





Owen loved his tool bench(at least that's what I keep telling myself).


When we finished up at my in-law's we headed back to my parents for a sleepover.


Saturday we had a great day relaxing, playing games, and being weird. 


After supper we did our gift giving.


Mom got us all matching pj's in our stockings, cheesy but great!


Our annual pictures in front of the tree..



And then came the hard part..the goodbyes..never easy but so so thankful for the wonderful time we had together!!


Thursday, December 29, 2016

D&L Home for Christmas..

David and Lillian came home the weekend before Christmas. We started our time out together by going to one of Andy's basketball games!


Andy's #1 fans!! #cheersquad #loudandproud



So cool that after every game the teams finish out their time on the court in prayer!



When Lillian and David are home we spend quite a bit of time at mom and dad's

Movie Night #benhur


Lots of games..


We had everyone over to our house for supper one evening..which kinda turned into a birthday celebration for Lillian. Sadly I realized I didn't have any traditional cake candles but we improvised :)


Catching up with cousins.




We had so much fun hitting up the bowling alley here in town one night with family!!


Wednesday, December 28, 2016

December in Review..

It was beginning to look a lot like Christmas come December 1st..




..inside that is..outside was still beautiful and fall like..


December 4th is a very special day..It's the birthday of our most loved brother Elvis/ Bryan. He looks so forward to his birthday every year. So on Dec. 3rd we headed over for a celebration.



He was pretty excited about the photo book I made him of his summer adventures.


Making Christmas goodies with these 2 beautiful women.


We finally got around to celebrating Thanksgiving at my cousins.




One evening we headed to Lowe's and then to David's parent's to get started on Owen's Christmas present.


It was a really simple project and pretty inexpensive! I was super happy with how it turned out!


Had lots of fun going to the y for a swim..but we had a hard time finding Owen..must be his red hair ;) 


A stop at dairy queen after the y is a must :)



My wonderful hubby wanted to make me supper one evening #steaksandsoftpretzels


This little girl was excited about her first shopping trip with mommy and aunt twa.. #startthemyoung 


the excitement wore off fast :)




Getting Christmas cards is one of my favorite things about December but the excitement triples when I open a card and find a card with pictures that I took :)


When you get home to find a polar bear on your roof 😂😂😂😂