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Month: December 2018

31 Dec

Painting Progress

Evidently the novelty of face painting has worn off and now it has become body paint…

31 Dec

December 31, 2018

Dinner out!

31 Dec

December 31, 2018

Relaxing.

31 Dec

December 31, 2018

Nothing like clean babies.

30 Dec

Smiles For Miles

This kiddos smiles all day long. Happiest kiddo by far!

30 Dec

December 30, 2018

Bookworm. Just like his Mama.

30 Dec

December 30, 2018

I truly love building lego sets. I hope my kids never stop asking me to help.

30 Dec

December 30, 2018

This has been the best Christmas gift I have ever gotten. Not only does it make clean up super simple. I personally have not had to pick it up once. Everyone else volunteers to vacuum and even fights over who gets to clean up a mess.

30 Dec

December 30, 2018

Keep them busy.

29 Dec

Fashion Statement

This one decided to raid my closet – in the cutest way!

29 Dec

December 29, 2018

This is a favorite activity in our house.

29 Dec

December 29, 2018

Where does he learn these things?

28 Dec

Just Bake It

Wade was out running errands when my computer started flickering in green stripes. I have had a Mac for years and years and never seen this. I got quite worried – especially since I haven’t backed up my computer in a good 6 months. I didn’t even wait for Wade to get home before calling him in a panic. He calmly told me it sounded like my video card and that we could bake it in the oven. With Wade I’m not always 100 percent sure when he is telling the truth but he came home, took my computer apart, and popped it in the oven. By the time I was going to bed, I had a working computer again. Crazy!
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28 Dec

December 28, 2018


Thank you Uncle John for the slime. It is my favorite thing ever…

28 Dec

December 28, 2018

Wade gave the boys the coolest build kits from Bose. Alex is building his own speaker.

28 Dec

December 28, 2018

I blew up this baby bath duck to make sure it still held air before I gifted/sold it. Then these two decided it made the best play space. We’ll see if it lasts the day.

28 Dec

December 28, 2018

I’m trying to sort things for goodwill and Ben’s doing his best to make that impossible.
When’s nap time?

27 Dec

Post Holiday Craziness

I’d like to say this is just post holiday craziness – but this is kind of a typical day at our house. You’ll notice that Ben isn’t phased at all by Pepper jumping over him multiple times as she makes laps around the couch.

27 Dec

December 27, 2018

Morning meeting to schedule the day’s activities. This is the first Christmas we haven’t traveled at all and we kind of like it!

27 Dec

December 27, 2018

The little genius is learning his shapes already…. Or he just likes to dump out all the things.

26 Dec

Christmas Clothes

These pictures were actually taken before Christmas but got a little lost in the shuffle. Pepper was a much smaller dog when we first got her. Even at Thanksgiving she was smaller. My Mom bought her a cute Christmas sweater, but by the time we got it on her – she had outgrown it. We did try to take a picture but Pepper was not excited to be wearing her sweater at all!
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26 Dec

December 26, 2018

Snuggling up on this chilly morning.

26 Dec

December 26, 2018

Cooking with Ben in the kitchen is always a challenge of one kind or another.

26 Dec

December 26, 2018

I don’t think Kaitlyn has ever finished a glass of milk in her 4 years.

26 Dec

December 26, 2018

Still loves yogurt. Still learning to eat it neatly.

25 Dec

Christmas Is Here

The big kids managed to wait in their beds for us all to gather at the top of the stairs. I tried to get a picture of them going down the stairs, but they were much too fast for me. Christmas morning was a rush of craziness, but so much little kid joy! (And face paint. Did I mention there was face paint? That ended up being one of Kaitlyn’s number one requests from Santa.)
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Judy, Jerry, and Emily joined us later in the morning for Christmas breakfast and then later that day we had gifts and stockings. I was so impressed that Judy brought her stockings (but when you have hand-made every single family member stockings they must be used!!). Jerry put his amazing woodworking skills to practice and made the neatest trees this year. Teague ended up with the “poop” last year and was so excited to give it to Wade this year. (I’m more impressed it made it has made it through all our crazy moves.) That is a wrap on Christmas. Granny and Pop read books to the kids and it was lights out on some tired kiddos.
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25 Dec

December 25, 2018

Christmas Morning.

24 Dec

December 24, 2018

Cookies for Santa.

24 Dec

December 24, 2018

Ben and his Pop.

24 Dec

Christmas Eve

We started our day with the last of the basket presents and spent he rest of the day full of activities – opening presents, baking, reading, playing, Lego building, napping, making cookies for Santa, church attending, and finally a few last Christmas books before bed.
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23 Dec

Disney Skates

Kaitlyn got one of her Christmas presents a little early. Aunt Emmy’s gift was tickets to Disney on Ice. Kaitlyn opened the gift this afternoon and then Wade and I took her tonight. She has been asking to go since this summer and was so excited. She had a blast and Wade thought the popcorn wasn’t too bad.
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23 Dec

December 23, 2018

Christmas clothes – one of my favorites.

22 Dec

Teague Teaches

Teague decided to teach both Pop and Kaitlyn the Basic 10 moves in Taekwondo. He did a pretty good job!

22 Dec

December 22, 2018


Video games!

22 Dec

December 22, 2018

Kaitlyn tired herself out playing with Granny, Pop, and Aunt Emmy.

22 Dec

December 22, 2018

Brothers playing in front of the tree – perfection.

21 Dec

Cookie Decorating

Kaitlyn had some friends over for a little cookie decorating. I love watching kids with icing and sprinkles – what a mess!
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21 Dec

December 21, 2018


3 days to go. They are ready Santa.

20 Dec

Harper-Ryan-Burch Pictures

I mentioned a month or so ago that we gave my mom professional pictures for Christmas. They turned out fantastic! We got the pictures recently and we all love them. Who knew we would get five adults and six kids to all coordinate and cooperate at the same time. This feat may never be repeated but at least it was documented!
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20 Dec

December 20, 2018

Counting down – four days to go!

19 Dec

Christmas Concert – Take 2

We only live a few houses down from the boys’ school. Whenever there is an event at their school, we always walk. Parking is a nightmare and we can easily avoid the trouble. Today was Teague’s Christmas concert so we bundled up Ben and took a short walk to the school.
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19 Dec

December 19, 2018

Basket presents!

19 Dec

December 19, 2018

Board breaking!

19 Dec

December 19, 2018


Board breaking!

19 Dec

December 19, 2018

Ben thinks Kaitlyn’s basket gift is much more interesting than unwrapping his.

18 Dec

Ballet Stickers

Kaitlyn has ballet class every Tuesday. This year they hand out stickers at the end of class instead of stamping her hand (thank goodness!) We quickly realized it was a much smarter idea to create a book for her stickers instead of just bringing them home. Now all of the girls have sticker books and the sticker collecting is a big deal!

18 Dec

December 18, 2018

Christmas basket countdown!

17 Dec

14 Month Pictures

Ben is definitely a 4th child. I was determined to get some pictures made in a studio, but the best I could manage was a local department store. I wanted a few in his Baptism outfit and a few in an outfit Judy had made Wade when he was little. I did manage to get some pictures, but my standards are just too high. Here they are – after I tweaked them some.
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17 Dec

December 17, 2018

Christmas concert night – singing and trumpet for Alex.

17 Dec

December 17, 2018


He loves baby and it’s also one of the few words he can say!

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