Look who lost her tooth!

On Christmas Eve!  Santa and the Tooth Fairy are going to be meeting at the Hines' house tonight!

Christmas Eve

 We had such a fun Christmas Eve!  We had lots of visitors and the kids got lots of presents.  We got to see Caleb and Aimee today which is always such a treat.  They are growing up so fast!  The girls made their yearly gingerbread men with Nana and delivered them to some of the neighbors.  Such a sweet Christmas Eve.

Santa Who?  These are MY cookies!

Santa's Helper

Christmas Fun

Aunt Marie is in town until Christmas.  We LOVE having Aunt Marie here!  The kids have been having a good time playing with Aunt Marie and playing on their new tablets every chance they get.  Today we went to a cookie party with the Joyners and the Tysons.  I had them in their cute little matching Christmas shirts but we hadn't been at the Joyners for five minutes before all the girls were princesses.  Figures!  The kids had so much fun making and decorating cookies.  It was such a fun day.  We are ready for Christmas!  

Christmas (and plumbing!) with Grandma and Grandpa

 Grandma and Bapa came for the day today and brought presents for the kids.  The girls got tablets which made Molly's year.  She's been asking for a tablet and she's been on it nonstop.  I told Grandma we are going to have to add "tablet time" to our list of "screen time"--otherwise I will never be able to pry that girl off of the thing!  Grandma also brought some of her old school stuff that we can possibly use for homeschool.  And (believe it or not!) a pair of Daddy's old mittens.  How cute are they?! 

Poor Daddy and Bapa spent the whole day working on plumbing.  We are so thankful for their plumbing skills!  :-)

I know I say this all the time, but I am so incredibly thankful for my in-laws.  We just couldn't ask for a better family.  <3 br="">

Tea Parties

For the last year, Molly has been going to monthly tea parties.  My friend Alicia has been hosting these tea parties for our "big" girls.  The girls are learning about manners and having good character through stories and Bible verses.  I take Molly and I love the one-on-one time I've gotten so spend with her at the tea parties.  This weekend we had the last of the monthly tea parties and Alicia thought it would be fun to take the girls out to a restaurant.  Of course they loved it and I loved having a date night with my big girl!

Happy 8th Birthday in Heaven

I can't believe this is the eighth birthday we have spent without our boy. We miss you so much, Zeke. Happy birthday, sweet boy.

Christmas Program

 The kids had their Christmas program at church this Sunday.  Unfortunately, someone got a hold of my camera and deleted the pictures of Molly in her angel costume and Rayna in her sheep costume.  I'll see if I can get my hands on someone else's pictures from this morning.  In the meantime, I do have these pictures of my Christmas cuties!