New Years Eve

New Years Eve was delightful this year. I can't believe how many people made it over to my Moms for the party-about 20+. We met both of my cousins future spouses :) (they're not engaged yet but I can feel it coming) We also ate yummy soups and EVERYTHING everybody brought, tour it up on Just Dance with Stef, enjoyed everyones company, and got my New Years Kiss! After midnight everyone left and the Christensens were leaving in a few hours. So of course me, Brody, and Stef had to play a round of Ticket to Ride which ended about 2 am and her car was leaving at 7 am. It was so worth it to saty up right?


Mom and Suzanne playing Just Dance


The family playing games


Waiting for the ball to drop


Got my New Years kiss from a HUNK!


This is what happens to a loopy 3 year old after midnight

Random bits

Here are some random pictures I love of the family. Can't wait until we're all together again!



Fun Uncle Brody



McCord getting Clobbered




We love Channing




Can't help but love this cute girl

It's a Thanksgiving MIRACLE

Hadley let Brody hold her! I repeat Hadley let Brody hold her. This is momentous.



Hadley cuddling with Brody




Hadley realizing who she let hold her.

The not so much Talent, Talent Show

This was one of the highlights of the Thanksgiving weekend for me. We had to participate in the talent show. Even though our family is not very talented except an elite few I think we all had fun making fools of ourselves. The talents included: Singing, dancing, karate, saxaphone playing, comedy, angry birds, poetry, double jointed tricks, and copying a skit from SNL. We better keep this a new tradition as well. I have lots of pics, I need to figure out how to make a collage of pictures. Is that how you spell "collage"?



Jackson singing Black Eyed Peas while McCord looks like he has an evil plot




Tyler on Sax playing Star Wars




Dane's double jointed trick- Gives me the willeys




Like Mother Like Daughter-Angry Birds skit




"Karl the Kid-median" doing stand up




Who invited the Big Mouth Frog?




Dad's fuuny reincarnation poem




Mom's Ninja skills against John




Erin and Stef doing a SNL skit.

Gobble Games

It was the first biannual Gobble Games. The games included: search for candy in leaf pile, pumpkin bowlinig, crandberry run, sock flour throw, and an award ceremony. The kids did pretty well in the games but the true CHAMP was Dane. He wouldn't even try hard and hit the bulls eye or knock down all the pins in bowling. I think he even beat some adults at the sock flour throw (throw a sock full of flour at a black poster board that has a bulls eye). Hopefully this new tradition will carry on and get better throughout the years.




Finding the Candy


Pumpkin Bowling


I think this is why Dane won everything- He was like Chuck Norris


Sock Flour Throw


Awards

Perfect Thanksgiving

Geez I feel like Thanksgiving was so long ago! We had so much fun being all together as a family. The food was wonderful and the comapany even greater.It was perfect, I'm grateful for them and our wonderful relationships.

Drumroll Please...

It's a GIRL! Tomorrow I will be at 19 weeks and she is a whomping 1/2 pound and will double in size in the next 4 weeks. I feel like the time has gone by so fast. I'm starting to get nervous, especially after being around Channing who is 5 weeks. But I'm also excited because now I get to shop.
Other great news:
~We are buying that home!! We close on the 20th which is way too close to Christmas for me but we're so excited.
~Finals week is next week which means no more more pencils, no more books, no more teachers dirty looks.
~Brody is switching his work schedule to mornings which will start on the 10th. We're both happy about that, it works great with his school, new baby, and we'll be able to see eachother more.