For several years we have embraced the idea of a kid-friendly New Year’s Eve party. I love the idea. We have food, friends, a good time, and everybody is gone by 9 pm. It’s awesome! Tonight the neighbors all came and the house was full of chaos (as usual). Some of our attempted group pictures…

This post is actually not about Tabit (the subject of the picture) but instead the lens used to take the picture. I have secretly been wanting a second lens for quite a while. (Ever since I had to send my lens in for repair and I realized there are times a second one would be…

How cool is this? Alex got large tinker toys for fort building. We decided to give it a try this morning.

I apologize to anyone who has ever mentioned a sinus infection and I have not shown proper sympathy. I mentioned in an earlier post my tooth pain and trip to the dentist. I took my prescribed antibiotics and within 36 hours my mouth pain was so bad I couldn’t chew food, but we were leaving…

Aunt Emmy has a birthday in just a few days so we decided to celebrate a little early. Alex helped Granny make biscuits. Then he helped open all the gifts. Teague was pretty content throughout the holidays as long as he had a car in his hand. He received a set of cars for the…

We spent the day at Granny and Pop’s reading books, decorating a gingerbread man, playing legos and being lazy. Then we went to Uncle Jim and Aunt Jean’s for one last Christmas get-together.

Ho Ho Ho. Alex was so excited to run downstairs to see what Santa left for him. He also couldn’t wait to see what was left for Teague too. (For those observant types – Yes, Teague did need an outfit change pretty soon after getting downstairs.) Then we packed up the car and headed for…