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so, yesterday morning lane climbed (is that a word? i know it's not clum...) into bed with me for a quick snuggle before we had to get ready for church. he put his hand on my cheek and just smiled at me. what a sweet way to wake up. then he said, "mom, you look like a reindeer." nice.
this Christmas, we opted for minimal decorations. i didn't want to unpack a lot, just to have to pack it all back up to get ready for the move. little tree from lowe's. i don't have a picture of any of us in front of the decorated tree. we did decorate it, by the way.
happy birthday jesus cake. the kids help make it and even cracked their own eggs to put in it. it was a lot of fun! this was my attempt at reinforcing that Christmas is when we celebrate Jesus' birthday because lane thought it would be fun to argue that point one night while getting tucked in. i figured that a cake would bring it home. i think it was a success.
ellen talking on her tinkerbell phone. she hasn't been punched in the eye in this picture... she had pinkeye. poor thing.

joel's gift to the boys. crazy hulk gloves. he was really getting wholloped. the boys love them, but they are offically every once in a while toys. i don't think joel would enjoy them being out all of the time.

we had 6ish inches of snow before Christmas. there is still snow on the ground in our backyard. it was fun for the kids to play in for sure!

let's see what else we've been up to in the last month or so..

shopping at ikea, ear infections, pink eye all around, couch shopping, the lego store, home inspections, pajama day at d's school, m&m pancakes, time with sweet friends, Christmas lights with the Gruvers, limbo!, lane finally potty trained?, trying to make decorating decisions, tanglewood, davis singing at church and signing at school, a double boiler.

today is our last day at home with davis. he doesn't want to head back to school tomorrow, and i'd rather have him home, too. working on some new year's resolutions. i'll post them once i figure out what my goals even are. not sure if i will be blogging more or less this year. when i am feeling blah, i just can't even post, and honestly, i've been feeling blah a lot the last couple of months. i've had to kick it into gear over the last few days. this house is close to packed. we move our stuff on sat. and we move into the new house (if all goes as planned) next tuesday. i am excited and ready to get on with it. speaking of that, i really need to get busy around here.