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..
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.
davis wearing his 5K fundraiser tshirt and pretending to run. (my battery was dead on the day of the actual event.)
climbing a tree on souteastern seminary's campus. we had a super fun visit with the henkle's in october.
sweet lane. 
lane one day at lunch time. 
ellen at halloween.
our sweet girl...
i am 21 or 22 weeks along...i can't quite remember. feeling good, but starting to get winded by just walking from one room to the next. we are having a boy! we are super excited!! his name is evan thomas. seems like a long time before he will get here, but i suspect the next few months to go by pretty quickly.
they had to race to build a hamburger. joel is the bun on the ground. andrew had to run back and forth and put the burger, lettuce, pickle, etc. on top of joel and then jump on to complete the burger in the end.
they lost to some teenagers. it was super close in the end. but it was really funny to watch. (at least i thought so.) :) 
just one of the reasons why baseball is america's favorite pasttime. 
we put the camera on the hood of the van and were surprised that this picture came out so well!
then we went to the park in blowing rock.
lane and daddy in jail. 
the silly things we will do to encourage our children to do silly things...
