Life

I am finally starting to get caught up on the blog.  I'm pretty sure I took like 5 pictures in the month of January.  That seems to be the trend year after year.  When I start to put together the picture calendars for the grandparents for Christmas gifts, I seem to always struggle to find pictures from January. 

We enjoyed some bouncing on a Saturday night and the kids enjoyed taking pictures of daddy and me working!









Basically January was just cold and snowy!

February is just about nearly over, but I did actually take some pictures! Cute little girl in piggies!



Playing dress up!



Such a good big brother!





Rocking my little baby to sleep for a nap!



A little silly video!

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And now to some fun stuff from the month in separate posts!

Christmas Day 2013

Christmas Day was at our house this year! 




Kids' Table!

















Paige was refusing to turn around!



Family picture attempt!





The two tv junkies!



It was a long Christmas day for these two!

Christmas Morning 2013

To say that Luke was excited would be a complete understatement!  He was up at 2:50 AM wanting to open presents! He eventually fell asleep for a little bit in our bed, but by 5:30 AM we gave in to his request to go downstairs.  As we got ourselves out of bed, Luke headed downstairs and this is how I found him!

Seriously the sweetest picture ever!



Luke was excited, but Paige was still waking up!



Nala gets just as excited as the kids!



Finally time to open!























Paige and all her princess babies!



Boy toys!



Big Wheels!





We also told the kids that morning that we were going to Disney World!  Santa dropped off a special note from Mickey and Pals and Santa's elves left some packages on the front porch full of fun shirts and toys for our trip!

17 Weeks

Things are moving right along with this pregnancy.  I am 17 weeks and 4 days today!

I have a doctor's appointment next Tuesday and am so looking forward to hearing the baby's heartbeat again! 

I started feeling some movement last week which is the best feeling ever.  The movements are very slight, but it seems to come in waves and especially when I am laying down at the end of the day.

I definitely have some energy back and can stay up until almost 10 PM - ha!  Let's face it though, I was going to bed at 9 regularly even before I was pregnant!  I actually even really cleaned my house this morning for the first time in way too long and I have a grocery list all prepared!  These are huge steps!

I am feeling really good so far though and am looking forward to the next 23 weeks!

Here I am at 17 weeks!

Christmas Eve 2013

We did Christmas Eve a little different this year.  Rather than having Christmas Eve dinner we had Christmas Eve lunch at Grandma & Grandpa Z.'s. 

And then the big man in a red suit made an appearance!







He, of course, had a present for the kids!







Present time!



After presents, we played some games and then it was time for church!

Grandma was in charge of getting the little kids dressed and in order for the procession. Luke and Paige joined in too! Paige led everyone out and was waving at the people - I couldn't believe it! 





After church we headed back to our house so we could actually have Christmas morning on the real Christmas morning. It's a new tradition that will take some getting used to for everyone!