Happy New Year!

We decided to celebrate New Year's Eve with Ben and Amy (and this is much easier now that they live back in town).  Here's a picture of us plus the only kid who made it to midnight last night, Liam.

Happy New Year!  2014 was great and I'm excited to see what 2015 brings!

Christmas

Christmas morning!

I tried to get a picture of these two waking up, but they were clearly already awake:

Hailey with the gift she picked out from Build-a-Bear a few days ago:

Logan actually  just waking up:

Ready for the kids:

Logan goes right for the candy:

 M&Ms are good!

The girls opening their stockings:

A new scarf for Hailey:

Showing off bracelets:

Daddy and Logan:

Logan's favorite: SHOES!

A gift that allows Hannah to publish one of her stories:

 Super Logan!

 Rob opening his stocking:

All the gifts from Hannah (which she picked out from the dollar bin at Target, paid for herself, and wrapped herself) have a note on them.  I loved mine so much that I included it:

Logan tearing into his gift:

Still wanting all the candy:

Hannah and the gift she picked out from Build-a-Bear:

My three sweeties:

Family selfie:

 Thank goodness for a timer on my phone:

 The Guyon Christmas!

Matt and Jessica:

Me and Rob:

Skyping with Sarah, Paul, Bennett, Colton, and baby Norah:

 The Elstro Christmas!

Logan and Conner hanging out:

 Cousin love!

Larry, Sheryl, and Paul ready to open gifts:

Hannah, Hailey, Anne, and Conner:

Daddy and Logan opening a gift:

Marie and Dolores:

Hailey playing with one of her gifts:

A wonderful Christmas for all!

Tis The Season!

Christmas is by far my favorite time of year!

There is snow (okay so there is no real snow yet but we can pretend with Logan's Olaf that he got from Rob's work holiday party):

Decorating the Christmas tree:

Holiday treats:

 Hanging out as a family (Hailey really wanted us all to sit and look at the pretty tree in the dark):

Christmas parties with old friends:

Making more holiday treats, such as gingerbread houses:

Of course, then the dinosaurs eat it if it falls down:

Playgroup brings Santa every year:

Then there are the family Christmas parties:

And long-time friends (this is the 20th year I've gone to the Robert's family Boot Dinner):

Christmas lights are always a big hit:

And of course, seeing Santa is wonderful too:

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Unfortunately this year there were a few things we didn't get to do.  We were sick this year for the Christmas eve service at church, Sarah and Paul just had a baby so they didn't come in for Christmas, and Matt and Jessica were only in for a few days, but that just means that Christmas will be that much more special next year.

Time to go set out the gifts!