I’m back…

Ok, so it’s clearly been a long while since  I’ve written any blog posts.  To be quite honest, I’ve been having a hard time.  And until the Good Lord calls me home to Glory Land to spend eternity with Him, I will continue to have hard times so I might as well blog anyway, right?  Right.

A lot has been going on the past couple of months.  I’ve uploaded some pictures from my phone to post…and it may seem like a lot of pictures, it’s really just a small percentage of the pictures I have taken over the past couple months.

We had a nice Christmas.  Macy was in a Christmas play at our church.  She’s quite the performer, that girl.  I did take some pictures with my “real” camera but this is all I got with my phone (it’s the background set of the play).

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Next up is Christmas.  Again, I have lots more (and good) pictures that are on my camera that I WILL one day upload to my blog.  I love the pictures of Christmas morning.  There’s nothing I love more than Christmas morning.  The gifts, the Christmas tree lights, the excitement of the kids, celebrating Jesus’ birth..I love it all!

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We played the game Headbandz on Christmas….great family game!

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Macy Jo turned 10 on January 1st!  How on earth is my baby 10???  Aleeya and I took her swimming on her actual birthday and she had a party a few days later with some friends.  It was great…until one of her friends threw up on the kitchen floor at 4:00 am….that part wasn’t fun.

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In the past couple of months we’ve had a lot of silly moments at home just hanging out….

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A highlight of mine was my brother, Ian, coming to visit and staying a couple weeks with us.  He’s the funnest guy you’ll meet and it was so very refreshing to have him here with us.  I looked forward to coming home from work every day so I could hang with Ian.  Just what I needed since I miss my family so terribly.

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There was some hanging out with friends during the past couple months and a lot of hanging out with our family.

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There was some basketball and some hair curling…

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There were some HUGE flakes of snow…8 deer passing by on the street and Valentine’s Day…

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More silliness…cake pops…and a trip to the dentist for a crown (poor Linae)….

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There was an 8th grade winter formal…a beautiful scarf Aleeya bought me with her own money…and a sweater purchased so I could have one like my friend, Merry (HI MERRY!  I bought a pretty bird sweater on Modcloth, too!).

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Ok…for now I guess that’s all our news.

For some reason I only have two pictures of Bryson on here…one with a silly Headbandz game on his head and the other with a “fat face” and a mustache.  Girls are MUCH easier to take pictures of because they actually like it!