Merry Day After Christmas!

Hello family and friends! I hope that your Christmas holiday was as great as ours! We have been so blessed this year. Although it was hard to be away from both of our families this year, it was so much fun to spend Christmas at our own house and start to make some of our own traditions. Thankfully we are also surrounded by great friends who help to fill the void of family.

We took this cute little family picture after all gifts had been opened on Christmas morning. Kyle was SO happy! Yesterday was definitely a good day in his little book of life! Seriously, how much better can it get for a little one with the attention span of a knat? He got to open a gift, play with it for 30 seconds to a minute loose attention, and then get to open something new! We were afraid that he was going to be overwhelmed, but that wasn't the case. It was fun to see him so excited. Holidays are getting more and more fun as he gets older.

One of my favorite parts of Christmas this year was that Scott had a four day weekend! It was so much fun to have him home with Kyle and I. We really just enjoyed each other, played, shopped and cleaned as a family. It was great. Scott totally stepped up this whole weekend and helped extra with cleaning and errands and such. He really helped to make MY holiday so enjoyable. Thanks babe! I love you.

Blackmail!!....

One day when these two are older...this picture could come in all kinds of handy!

My childhood Best Friend, Jamie, and her daughter, Brynlee, spent this last weekend at our house. We had SUCH A GREAT TIME! (The kids not so much.)

Jamie and I have been friends longer than either of us can remember. Literally! We lived across the street from each other until 7th grade, and then they moved just a few miles away after that. Through attending different middle schools, high schools, boyfriends, college, a mission (Jamie), marriages, giving birth to children, and living on opposite ends of the country, we've managed to still stay great friends. It's not very often that you get to have a life-long friend.

Jamie's daughter Brynlee is turning two at the end of this month, and we haven't seen each other for over a year, so we figured we'd better take advantage of her flying free and get them out here for a quick visit. It was so worth any hassle it might have been. Jamie and I had a great time catching up, reminiscing, crying on each others shoulders, and just enjoying being together. We really didn't "do" much, no site seeing that is, but it was great. I couldn't have asked for a better weekend.

Kyle and Brynlee found it impossible to get along...enough said! (Oh, except for the three minute window that this picture was taken of them in the tub on Sunday morning together. Jamie and I couldn't resist taking the shot. They'll kill us for it one day!)

Here is my quick blast from the past photo. It was taken our Senior year in high school. Is that matching shirts you think you see? Yep! You're not mistaken. We were dorky that way, but we also went to different high schools so it didn't matter if we had some of the same clothes. (We actually only had these because we went to a Garth Brooks concert earlier in the year together and wanted to dress alike.)


I love ya James! Thanks for the visit and thanks for being such a great friend.