Let's not forget catching up with old friends...

Averie having an afternoon snack of pretzels and learning how to navigate Playhouse Disney, Nick Jr. and Starfall all by herself!!

Cheetah-licious concert with the Clique Girls...

A great dinner at Olive Garden...

One of my personal favorites of the year...the old "dishsoap in the dishwasher mistake"! Sydney!!!!! "But it said 'dishwashing liquid'! "she says. "Yeah, but not 'dishwasher detergent'" I said. I can understand an honest mistake... but this happened twice. Kallie did it before she did a week earlier! Josh was really stressed out about it. He kept checking on it as the suds spread across the floor and kept asking, "What are we going to do about this?"

Children's museum

Josh's basketball games...

Making pizza at the Children's Museum...

Testing out the instruments...

Weighing beans with Megan Wright...

My beautiful freezer my mom and Papa gave us at Christmas to stock up on great deals...

Josh and Averie's gingerbread houses...

Our new favorite game to play...

Fuzzy slippers...

My mom saw on Funniest Home Videos how this little boy got a roll of toilet paper as one of his presents and he got so mad he threw it across the room! So my funny mom wanted to see how Josh would react! Luckily, he smiled and said, "thanks" but was saying in his head, what the...?It was pretty funny!

A new Polly ...

The anticipation...

Santa's helper passing out gifts...

Kallie and Averie playing with Camryn...

Sydney and Conner have known each other since they were 3 years old. Now they are both 13 and Sydney is almost finally not the tallest! It was fun to catch up laughing and hanging out!

Here We Go...

We loved having some of our favorite friends visit!

Two birthday cakes! My mom made this delicious one.....and Josh's dinosaur couldn't stay away!

Another cake Jason made and the kids decorated!

Josh's Christmas concert!

Kallie's Christmas concert!

I should be "pinged"...

Ok, so I have disappeared for almost 2 months off of my blog! I should be "pinged". As you probably have been, I have been crazy busy! Now I have so much to blog, I don't know where to start. I just wanted to let all my faithful readers (haha, do I have a following?:)) I will be back soon!! Maybe even tomorrow when I have some time! Ok, you may also be saying, "If this was important to you, you'd make the time" yeah, yeah...blah...blah!! I am making time tomorrow!!!Until then.....!