christmas 2014

despite the stomach bug invading our lives and UPS failing to deliver 1/2 the gifts-it was a very nice christmas. my mom was the christmas fairy-and we actually made it through the gift giving with good attitudes and thoughtfulness. my favorite thing was the gifts the kids bought for each other at our local high school's 'joy of giving shop'. funny moment to remember was emily gave ben a small back scratcher "because his bottom is always itchy with diaper rash".

christmas portraits for 2014

tether ball at ryan's house

christmas eve service at bethany

christmas morning-girls working together to hand out presents!

emily gets a joke book

out of order-grant and emily had their piano recital right before christmas

anneliese's furby-she played with is for a solid 2 days and then on the way home she put it in the way back of the van and declared that it was 'starting to get annoying'

ben loves to color on most everything-sometimes paper :)

we had snow before and after christmas but the temperatures have been so cold that we haven't done as much sledding

mandatory new year's eve walk-a very cold one this year.

happy new year!