Catching Up From Christmas

I realize it's January. I am so behind. Very, very behind.

So I decided to just dump all of the December pictures into this one post and call it done. I'm very sure they will be out of order, but let's just pretend that doesn't matter to my slightly OCD self. 

We enjoyed our Christmas tree all month.

 Sheldon and Shelby joined us on December 1 and left on Christmas Eve. We enjoy having them around, but sometimes they wear me out.

 Parker had the flu. Bless his little heart. Fortunately, we caught it fast, and he didn't feel too badly for very long.

 This is what you do when your brother has the flu. Model every item of clothing in your room.

 Claire played Vixen the Reindeer in her school play. She was supposed to be extra sassy, and she nailed it!

 Claire's Christmas party

 Guess who else got the flu? Thankfully, she didn't get very sick either. Somehow, Brian and I have escaped it so far.

 We had Elf Night at our house where we watched Elf the movie and did some elf related things. It was fun!

 We had fun watching the play A Christmas Story in Jonesborough. This was after the play in the photo booth.

 We drank a lot of Russian tea.

 Our Christmas service at church is one of my favorite traditions.

 The kids and I went to see the movie Annie. It was really cute!

 We did a Christmas lights scavenger hunt. Max the Furry Murray even went along and enjoyed the ride.

 Christmas Eve with my side of the family is always fun. Here are the ladies:

 And the men:

 Christmas Eve

 Our cookies and milk for Santa

 Looks like he stopped by and ate them!

 Our birthday cake for Jesus

 Waiting on Christmas morning to come down the stairs

 Parker and Claire loved all of their presents.

 Our special Christmas breakfast

 We spent Christmas afternoon with the other side of our family. I didn't get a lot of pictures unfortunately!

 We also went bowling one day during Christmas break.

 Starbucks!

 Girl's Night Out was fun for Claire and me while Parker was at a Christmas party.

 Another movie ~ Night at the Museum 3

 New Year's Eve!

 Skating was interesting since they are both still learning. I was very proud of them for trying so hard.

Celebrating straight A's! Way to go Parker and Claire!

We had lots of good family time, and also loved just being home to rest and relax before heading back to school. We hope you had a wonderful Christmas!

Back To School 2014

We started back to school last week. I seriously can't believe how fast this summer was! I've said over and over that it felt like the shortest summer ever!!!

Claire is in third grade, and Parker is in sixth grade this year! They just keep on growing no matter how much I want to keep them little!!! We are praying for a wonderful year for both of them!

Summer So Far!

My oh my, I have a lot of catching up to do! We have been super busy with summer fun around here. I have lots of pictures to share, and some of them even go back into May.

Disclaimer: These pictures are in random order. They will stay that way because ain't nobody got time for that.

A bunch of my family went to Emilee's wedding. Emilee is Megan's friend, but we all love her.

The kids and I made our annual trek to Greensboro to visit my cousin Krista. We made the kids pose for the annual "look how we've grown" picture.

We celebrated Father's Day and went to lots of Believer's Church softball games.

We've had some friends come swim with us.

We headed down to Pigeon Forge for the day where the kids had their first experience at Gatti's. (When did they drop the Mr.?)

We also had some fun riding go karts.

There was a picnic in the park on a different day.

We had a fun day at the Aquatic Center nearby.

A quick little trip to Chuck E. Cheese.

Our family girls got together as usual to watch Miss USA. We have a fierce competition as the show moves along where we try to guess who will be in the Top 10, the winner, etc. I am proud to say that I picked Miss Nevada as my first impression, and she won! So I won our little competition.

I have been to the dentist way more times than I care to remember in the last few months. Two root canals, two crowns, and a filling later, and I'm ALMOST fixed. It has not been fun. And definitely not cheap!

Parker got to celebrate his birthday with friends at the pool.

The student ministry at church had a lake get together that was a lot of fun.

Parker's birthday sleepover was exciting with all those boys.

Last Day of School pictures!

Smores!

More last day of school pictures (I told you the pictures were out of order)!

Colin graduated!

Claire did an awesome performance in her classroom that went with a book she read.

Parker & Claire both had straight As this year! Yay!

I'm sure I've missed some things, but this will do for now to get me caught up a little bit. Hope you're having a great summer!