a puppy for christmas

christmas eve

it wouldn't be christmas eve without daddy leading worship for the candlelight service, green pickle ornament game to start the morning, enchiladas for dinner at grammy's, visit from santa after dinner, making christmas cookies for santa, and red christmas jammies for all from grammy.

christmas time

we started off the parties with a christmas party for the volleyball girls.  we made lots of christmas cookies for them to decorate. i love the sweet little hand. i will cry when the baby knuckle dimples go away. they are my favorite. 

emery helped me make chocolate covered marshmallow stirrers for the party. 

aaron and i went to seattle for the weekend for whitworth events and lots of christmas shopping. 

i love finding her sleeping with all her babies tucked in beside her. 

kinkade played "come all ye faithful" for his christmas recital. 

keagan played "holly jolly christmas" 

we were leaving our small group party and aaron fell. . in the funny way and i had to take a picture. 

christmas break ice skating with friends. 

love cozy christmas time!

a day of kid heaven

SANTA. PUPPIES. OUR FAVORITE BABY.
- all three in one day. it was the perfect day.
we visited santa - keagan asked for a russel westbrook jersey, kinkade asked for speed stacking cups, lucia asked for a barbie, and emery pearl asked for a baby doll with no hair. the actual santa picture is  my favorite yet, but our scanner is not working. we did take a couple with the big white fluffy bear.

we have been talking about getting a puppy. . . well K&K have been talking about getting a dog for years.  finally, this summer we said if all the kids saved 100.00$ and earned 125 puppy points (anything above and beyond that exemplifies responsibility) we would start the conversation and start researching.
100.00$ saved - check
125 puppy points - check
breed of dog decided upon - check
breeder found - check
puppies born - check
So. . after Santa we went to visit the litter. we told the kids we were just visiting and continuing our research.  but of course we all fell in love! we did not put a deposit down, because we had secret plan - more to come on this:)
then we returned home for the kiely's to come over, so we could all snuggle hallie june!
santa. puppies. and hallie june = the perfect day. enjoy pics from the day.

hallie june is here!

hallie june kiely was born december 1, 2012 and we all could not be more in love. janny and ryan have made the transition to being parents with ease and joy and are loving their beautiful daughter every minute.  she is so sweet and all the mcmurrays can't get enough of her! the morning she was born the boys were out of town with aaron, so the girls and i rushed to the hospital to meet her! i went back three times that day i was so excited!

the christmas tree - so crazy this year!

the christmas tree outing was like no other this year - first on our way there the kids said, "we can't get our tree there is not any snow!!" they were right it was sunny and 45 - we left in coats, hats, gloves and half way through the hunting they had shedded it all and said they were sweating.  we went really nuts and got a grand fir . . . WE ARE NOT A GRAND FIR FAMILY! we have never gotten a grand fir, but the selection was low on nobles, and the grand fir looked like it might work.  well. . . it smells delicious - much better than a noble - it fills the house with that sweet pine christmas smell, but it is HUGE and fills up the entire room and is really bushy! here are some pics from our christmas tree hunting. . .