It's been a really busy December. In addition to Christmas we have 3 birthdays to celebrate. Taggart's is the 14th, my mom's is the 15th and Mandy's is the 21st. We celebrated them all in one day, ending with a visitor stopping by to surprise the kids. They were excited to tell him what they wanted and loved the treat! (They kind of wondered if he sounded like Papi)




Donny and I feel pretty spoiled with Mandy and Cam moving back here because of the opportunity it gives us to see the kids in their recitals and programs etc. We got to see what Tag does in Tumbling Tigers and see Maddie dance. They both did such a good job! We loved every minute of it and with it brought back lots of memories of our own kids!!


This is a big moment of our lives. We have lived here 27 years and we finally bought a snow blower!! We were actually pretty excited to get snow so we could try it out. Our family is saying it's about time!! Kim had to mention that maybe it's time for a sprinkling system this spring. That would really lighten the load!! We'll have to see about that one.



We were so excited to have McKelle come home for Christmas!! The girls picked her up from the airport and we met them at Kneaders for some dinner. Then we were up for some last minute shopping. It was so much fun for the family to be together and just hang out and visit, read stories and play some games. It's fun to watch the babies growing and especially fun to get them all smiling and laughing. We gave Sophie her first bath in the Big bathtub and she loved it, as you can tell. We had a little program where Maddie and Tag sang the 12 days of Christmas with all the actions and my mom treated us with a Christmas song on the piano. We missed having Jason,Claudia,Ada and Boston here though!















HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!
We went to the Fun Park in Logan and went bowling. We were excited to see the black lights which made it extra fun. It was McKelle's idea to take a picture of our shoes! I asked someone to take our picture and as we hurried to pose, the only bowling ball I could find was Cam's. Can you tell I can hardly hold it? Maddie and I look like we are struggling!We had so much fun. Then we went back to Mandy's and played a marshmallow/straw game. The look on Tags face when Mandy blew a marshmallow at him at the end of the game. That turned into a marshmallow fight with all of us and then quick to the game to see how many you can pick up. Easy clean up!!
At home Donny, McKelle and I got on a Nertz frenzie. We just couldn't get enough. We stayed up late and we started again the next morning. McKelle and Donny were the winners. I just keep trying!! Good luck to everyone with their New Years resolutions!!