January

Is it just me or did January of 2012 last a whole year!? It was sooo long!! We were really hoping for lots of snow this year, but it has seriously been really nice out! Obviously its still too chilly to play for too long outside, but these kiddos find mischief and lots of places to play inside.... :) I love that they play together!

         Haha!!! Had to post this cause it is sooo funny! She decided to put her tutu on before church!

However, when the snow actually did fall, we took serious advantage of it!! It was a super dry snow, so a snowman was extremely difficult, so we improvised. This is our Snow Mound :)

Rome's First Christmas

 Christmas is SO much more fun with kids.  I know people always say that, but they are the magic! We didn't wake up early (We have lots of years to come that I know we'll be up at 4 am) so that was nice, and we went to church before opening gifts, which was weird haha.But what could be more perfect to celebrate our Savior's birth than to get to worship him for an hour!?

 

After Church we put the kids back in their jammies, and let them have at it! This Christmas was so amazing for us, because it was the poorest Christmas we've ever had.  But Heavenly Father made sure that our kids did not go without. A wonderful and magical thing happened to us this year, and there is nothing more humbling than someone showing your family what Christmas is really about.  While we were planning on getting each of our kids one gift each, and literally re-wrapping some of their old toys that had been in storage. Then a few of God's angels left a big red bag full of toys on our doorstep.  I can't type this without crying. I have never felt so much love, and never known who to direct it to.  But I pray that whoever our angels are receive blessings tenfold to what they have given us.  It was so wonderful to watch my kids open toys on Christmas morning.

 This Boy thoroughly enjoyed his very first Christmas!!!

Catchup. Spelled Right, Right?

Ok, yes my birthday was 2 months ago. Ya. Ya. It was a fun day, and I am not gonna lie, even though I'm 23 now...I still feel like I am 18 and I just graduated high school last year. Ugh, it has not been five years, it has not been five years. :/    Well anyways, my dear sweet husband made my day special, threw me a little birthday party, made me a REd VeLvEt Cake all by himself!!!, & made me the coolest jewelry hanger you've ever seen! Its an old window he got a few years back from a house he was painting! He is the best! :) Honestly, he had me at Red Velvet....

 

And as usual, after my birthday comes Christmas Eve. It was so fun to just be our little family together in our jammies, Rome was a party pooper though haha!