For Christmas this year we got a new camera!!!  Josh had lots of fun playing with the aperture and stuff.  (I have yet to learn it good).

 Josh was taking loads of pictures this day.  SO UNLIKE HIM!  He took pictures of me doing random things like laying Ruby down for a nap.

 I took pictures of him doing things like playing on the Kinect.

 Flarp.  SO MUCH FUN!!!  Easy to clean up, and makes us laugh hysterically.  Win-win.

 What did you get in your stockings?  Bet you didn't get HOT CHOCOLATE GOLDFISH!  ;)

 Conrad's new criss-cross crash racetrack.  Loves it!

 A gem of a photo.  I'm looking down AND THERE'S NO DOUBLE CHIN!!!

 Amelia loved her new outfit.  She was dancing around in it and everything.

 If you were here you could see Ruby pretty much attached to me.  Those darn teething teeth.

 Christmas morning after church.  

 just so darn cute.

 Love him!

 Love her!  (thanks sponge-rollers for curling Winifred's hair!!!)

 Reminiscent of Nanny McPhee.

Hope you all had a great Christmas!  I'm staving off either the winter blues or denying that I have to get back to the real world.  Josh's schedule in December was a dream (he got to sleep in until 5:30 am!  And was home by dinnertime!).  January's... let's just pretend Josh is having a sleepover at the hospital more than just on weekends!!!

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It is soooooooo great!!!!  I love you Josh.  Hope you know it cause I really really do.

a little bit more

I posted 8 blog posts last night.  FYI.  If you want to read all of them you'll have to scroll to the bottom of the page and find where it says, "older posts" and click on it.
The first one I posted is titled 11-14-11/23.

Thanks, come again!

Ward Christmas Party

Oh, Christmas Tree

This year we bought a real live tree.  First time in our lives!  

in the meantime, someone's getting more teeth.  Her 2 little bottom teeth are so cute I wanted to capture her smile (or frown in this case) before the semi-toothless grin is gone.

can you see the new tooth?  To the side of where her 2 front teeth will be.  Hopefully those other front teeth catch up soon so she's not gangly tooth'd.

Amelia pulled our Christmas tree over.  Just trying to pull a little branch off.  She'd already "trimmed" the tree earlier in the day with the BIG Tree pruners.  I threw in the towel after this!!!

so cute, playing together

Conrad or Amelia took these next set of pictures.

Saying goodbye's

Before we left we had to get a little more playtime in with our cousins

Conrad and Levi watching Tom and Jerry

Snuck this picture in.  She's so darn cute.