happy new year

after hanging out and eating dinner with friends, we were driving home and grace asked if we were going to stay up until midnight.

it was already after ten and i was ready to go to bed or at least do some binge watching on netflix without kids.  but, john says, "sure!"

he was thinking that when we got home, we could have a little countdown at "midnight" and go to bed.

but, grace walked in the house and looked at the clock and said, "it's 10:30.  that means that we have an hour and a half until midnight."  surprise!!!  she can tell time and apparently has a pretty good concept of it!

oops!!!  so, we pulled out a few party supplies and partied hard for that hour and a half!

at midnight, we had a glowstick dance party to ring in the new year!!!

then, we went to bed.

2015, here we come!!!

2014

...some of my favorite moments...

{january}

{february}

{march}

{april}

{may}

{june}

{july}

{august}

{september}

{october}

{november}

{december}

Christmas Day

After all the Christmas fun at home, we headed to Grandma Great's house for breakfast!

The kiddos checked out the gifts under the tree when they were finished with their powdered donuts and chocolate milk.

Grace was Aunt Terri's little elf...passing out gifts.

Carter was super excited about his gift...ninja turtle bandaids, toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, shampoo...he kept taking his goodies out of the bag over and over to show them off to everyone!

Grandpa and John were having a difficult time opening up this gift...a puzzle box with cash on the inside!

Thanks Grandma Great for the fabulous gift!

Next, we gathered at Mimi and Poppa's!  These three!!!

We snacked and played and visited!

Check out this cutie that I got to snuggle with!!!

Dreams do come true!!!

Hugs and gifts for everyone!

Lily and Carter cruisin' around on Mawmaw's new scooter!  They weren't the only ones who took it out for a spin...someone, not ahem Brad, even rode it up the wall.

The celebration ended with a birthday party for Jesus!!!

all the kids minus the babies 

Before it was time to go back home, these super sleuths had a mystery to solve!

We had a fun and busy day celebrating the birth of our Savior with family!!!

you gotta get up...

...it's Christmas morning!!!

Santa brought Carter some more ninja turtle stuff!

Grace got an art desk with lots of tape!

After playing with Santa's gifts, we checked out our stockings (or in the words of Grace, sockings). 

Then, we exchanged our gifts to each other.

Finally, we had a few minutes to play before we had to leave to celebrate with more family!!!