Happy New Year!

I hope you and your family had a great Christmas; we certainly did. I am very thankful for the peace and happiness we had and the many blessings of time with family and reflections of Christ's birth.

We did things a little differently this year; we traveled to Virginia on Christmas Eve and stayed until the 26th. It was much less stressful for us because we didn't have to drive back and forth and the boys didn't have to travel between states on those days, since they must be in Virginia for Christmas Eve anyway. We decided to ask Santa to come to my parents house, and he didn't mind! The boys were much better- rested than past years, and I loved sharing Christmas morning with my parents- even Uncle Matt got up early to see what Santa brought!

Here are some pictures from last week.

Here is the annual "smile or I will punish you" picture in front of the tree. It is always the same- three seconds before this they were fighting and pushing each other and this shot is 8th in a series of awful ones...

Me and B...we were not fighting and pushing beforehand...

me and Leah

Santa brought Reese Motocross gear...



Santa brought Cole hunting gear and True A LOT of Star Wars stuff!

Great- Grandma and Papa's house Christmas morning

Christmas dinner with Aunt Carrie

Nannie and Papa Dalton's house

Day after Chistmas...Cole's first successful hunt!



Fishing with Papa Dalton