It is official!

It is official!

I am completely current on this blog!

Woohoo!

Now I can start writing about the here and now!


Make sure you scroll down and check previous pages so you are all caught up.


I mean I know you are all just dying to know anything and everything we have done in the last 12 months!


Hurry up... get to readin'!

My little elf!

We had a little elf visit us Christmas day. She thought it would be so great to pick out and lay out everyone's outfits for the day!  Gotta love Mallory!

What is funny about this picture is that she knows her Daddy so well-- she chose jammies for him!

She even tried to fool us by picking out her own outfit. Sneaky!

A must at Christmas!

So I've got a lot of treats I love, but I have to have my chocolate dipped pretzels every year.  Not just any chocolate dipped pretzels, but pretzels dipped in caramel, then chocolate, then rolled in a mixture of sliced almonds, chocolate chips and butterscotch chips. For those of you wondering why you never get them for Christmas...?

 I practically eat them all myself!

I owe my good friend Kimberly Foote for showing me these delicacies!  Love you, Kimberly!

Twas The Night Before Christmas

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house... all the children were listening to mom read her favorite Christmas story.

The story The Last Straw is one of my favorites. Such a tear jerker for me.

New jammies on Christmas eve.

A little big, but they will grow, right?

Holiday Baking

Waffles with ice cream n strawberries, crafts, baking & cousins!  What fun!

So Long, Farewell...

It was a sad goodbye to one of our favorite families... The Christoffersons!

Let the crying begin!

Little Miss Avery is gonna be so tan from that California sun!

Friends for life!

He is happy, but I'm sure he doesn't understand he is losing his girlfriend!

Da' boys!

The Ladies!

Not wanting to leave, yet falling asleep.

Marilee & Adam you are already missed... a ton!

Gotta Have Girlfriends!

So I think I have the best friends in the world.  I wish I could gather all my friends far and near and tell all the things I love about them.  Here are few that live here.

Piano Recital

My sis Kendra teaches my oldest two and so we had to have a recital.  My kids played the piano-- her kids sang.  It was a quick recital, but great entertainment.

Budding Makeup Artists

The Professional

Sadie Mack

The Model

Kendra Mack

The Budding Apprentice

Madalyn Mack

My baby is a Ballerina!

My baby is a  ballerina-- or so she tried to be!  Her first recital and she was a cute fairy!  I put one pic in that is not that great, but it shows that she actually moved her leg-- we are makin' progress!