family fun time

so great to be together with family! we met baby abraham for the first time!! so fun for lucy and kate to meet their first cousin. the weather was perfect - we spent lots of time outside and just hanging out. lucy even learned to ride a bike. a very merry christmas.

outside fun

love it. love it. love it.

happy birthday, jesus!

our (where's the) gingerbread house

perhaps i was a bit ambitious to attempt this project with a two-and-a-half-year-old...especially as it was two degrees outside today and we were staying in...lots of sugar energy. but, very fun to carry on one of my mom's holiday traditions. she used to spend days baking, cutting, drying, assembling...a large house with a chimney, windows and open door. i bought this already-assembled house at target for $8.99...not quite on par with my mom's, but still, very fun. as you can imagine, even as loaded-with-candy as this house is, a LOT of jelly beans found their way into lucy's mouth...good thing we just got an electric hello kitty toothbrush that she uses all day long!

one!

sisters

bath time