I know it's incredibly late, but I just want to get these Christmas pictures on here so we can come back sometime and see how our Christmas 2013 was! It was full of grace and the Lord's goodness.

It might take me a little while to get everything that I have on here, but we'll start with the weekend of Dec. 14th and go from there!

This picture is so sweet to me because the first thing I saw when I opened it up in iPhoto was the picture on the wall of Vivian, not much bigger than a toddler, facing the 5-year-old real time Vivian...growing up, but I see the same baby face, don't you?

We went to see Jake and the Neverland Pirates and Sofia the First (Disney Junior Live) last weekend! Amazing!!

Of course we had to buy Disney paraphernalia...they chose the Cinderella over all the other options!

We didn't think Hank would appreciate being there, so thanks to Uncle Joey and Aunt Tasha for watching him :)

Couldn't ask for sweeter shopping buddies!

I've been going to a few stores in the last two weeks to find new kitchen stuff. 

These little people have been very gracious about it...it makes me not even mind being seen with this bad bed head:

We are back in our house now after the kitchen remodel. We spent a little more than a month at my parents' house and it couldn't have gone more smoothly. Everyone is so thankful for having a perfect place to live while out of our home. It was challenging at times because all of our belongings were disorganized, but the kids slept well there, we had good meals there, and plenty of toys to play with! Here are a few pictures during that month that I have on my phone:

4 kids in the bathroom trying to get ready for the day...Hank loved the stool because he felt like a big kid.

We watched the NFL championships one sunday afternoon (hank was into it!) and also had friends over for the Super Bowl. 

We spent lots of time playing in the playroom.

We cuddled on the couch on most mornings to watch Sesame Street for hank or sprout channel for the girls. We had to detox a little on watching tv when we got back home ;) but it was nice to have that on the long winter days when they were out of school for snow, which happened several times during that month.

I walked down the driveway one day because the snow had come fast and I was nervous about getting my car back up the hill.