Happy New Year/ Happy Birthday

Ringing in the New Year with custom made hats:

 Other kids we played with while ringing it in

 Happy Birthday D! 29! Mile High Turtle Pie... looks kinda messy here... oh, it was sooo good.

 A big snow out our back window

 He is a ray of sunshine on this snowy day!

 The boys and our snowman of 2012.

 S informing me that he wants to take "cool pictures." I guess that means posing awkwardly in front of a snowman???

The other half of Christmas

And here we are with more family at Christmas:

The boys playing iPhones on loan from the grandparents... they would sit here all day if we let them.

 Playing criss/cross/crash with Uncle E and Aunt N

 Grandma with her youngest grandson :)

 My man, setting up S's rockin' new Christmas present from Grandma and Grandpa.  Our house really gets loud now!

 Brotherly love while waiting on their cousins to take a group picture

 The boys, one persuaded by a marshmallow to participate

 :) love marshmallows

 The grandparents with all their boys! and Lucy!

Half of Christmas

Here's half of our Christmas pictures:

With Mema

With Gana and Papaw.  I clearly need to work more with my camera and figure how to take better pictures and position subjects better with the light...

 us with the boys

 Our leader driving our new to us mini-van.  Never thought I'd be so excited/glad to have a minivan!  We love it!

 P passing the time away :)

 S, he thinks it's fun to pose for pictures with things in front of his face now.  Hope this phase doesn't last too long.

craft projects

Here's a project we did with S at church the night the regular teacher couldn't make it and I had to lead... The story was Moses leading the Israelites across the Red Sea.  I thought this was pretty cute :)

 And on to one of my Pinterest projects that I've done.  I wanted to find a use for my leftover thread spools instead of just throwing them away.  I thought this was a cute idea for a Christmas Tree ornament.