what fun we had

first we had an early christmas with my family. everyone came together and it was just so much fun. i just love love love to be with my family. mom and dad treated all the girls to the Nutcracker in Charlotte which was so precious. my favorite part was watching spencer look so intently at the sugar plum fairy and all the beautiful ballerinas.


Mom and Dad thank you so much.


ok, here is our new baby that we had over christmas, just kidding.
this is spencer's christmas present from mom and dad. wow. we couldn't believe how real it looks. kind of creepy. I mean expensive, but strange, right?
Dan, Katy, Lizza and I really had a fun time with it.

Then we had Christmas morning and a lot of wonderful time with the Singletary and Eddleman clan.
Here is will's new tent that Lee lee and Pop pop got him. It's amazing. We have enjoyed it as well. It does take up our whole house, but we've always wanted to live like real Iroquois.



Here is Will's wagon from my mom and dad, thank you thank you for this. we are already getting so much use out of it.



we had fun fun fun.
although, from christmas day to about 2 days later. everyone but me, will and cooper got the stomach flu. Yes, that's right, throwing up, alternating houses, alternating use of the toilet, alternating who has the babies, alternating was our theme.
Wow, it was crazy. I think on Sunday when the preacher said, "you might think of your christmas like, what was that all about?" yeah, that pretty much sums most of the actual holiday up.
However, we managed, as we always do, to squeeze lots of fun and wonderful memories into a few days.
That is Santa above, he came to visit. Did he come your house? I hope he made it, the only one this santa made it too was the Kings. He'll have to visit more next year.


Will is now deemed a harmonica prodigy. He is so good is scary. every morning he plays it and we actually enjoy it. the guys got some talent, i'm not kidding.


and, here are our two little stud muffins.
these guys melt my heart. they both learned so much about eachother this trip.
Will learned a lot about how to have a little person around and how to be gentle (although that is so hard) and how to share his things and Cooper's with Cooper (yes, we have a little problem with thinking everything is our's).

All that to say,
we are so thankful for our families.
This holiday we didn't really get a chance to think about our Savior being born, everyone was so sick with the flu that is was hard to focus on Jesus being born. The really cool thing was that in all that. Will really began to pray.
He prays fervently, not sure completely what all he says and i'm sure there's some "Mommy and Daddy pleasing" going on too. But, it bring tears to my eyes and makes me remember my Savior and what life is all about.
We are so thankful for Jesus coming.
We are hopeful for things to come in this New Year.
Hopeful that we will have more of an eternal perspective in all that we do.
I have to say that my blog friends (some of which I see and some of I don't), thank you. Thank you for reading, thank you for encouraging and for being there on the other side of this. It's really neat to think about how much i've learned from all of you in this age of online. I'm thankful for it, because honestly, 3 hour mid day naptimes can get a little old without you.
Wishing you a wonderful New Year.