I’m back!
In the last month, we:
– traveled out of state twice (for a total of 10 nights away from home)
– celebrated Thanksgiving with both sides of the family and Christmas with Tad’s family
– (well, I) had mastitis
– had our living room painted
– hosted a Christmas party
– had a stomach bug that hung on for almost a week (fortunately the kids were spared)
– decorated our Christmas tree!
All that to say, this poor blog has been a bit neglected! Here are some (cell phone) photos from the last few weeks.
Vera made cookies at MiMi’s house at Thanksgiving.
The girls had such a fun time with their fun uncles and their friends who joined us for Thanksgiving! Here, Caeleb and Jeremy (my brother’s friends) took turns lifting the girls (each around 30 lbs.) in the air!
We left for Thanksgiving with the living room looking like this…
…and came back to this! (Well, not quite… we finished up a bit of painting and put the furniture back in place, but Tad’s dad did the vast majority of the work while we were gone… so very sweet!) I have better pictures to post soon.
Jude is so stinkin’ cute I can’t even stand it.
To celebrate Angela’s (my sister-in-law) birthday, we went to Andrew Peterson’s Behold the Lamb of God tour! It was amazing and so worshipful.
Jude stayed awake for the whole concert, completely enchanted by the music!
Tad’s parents took us to a botanical garden light display and the kids all had a great time looking at the pretty lights! Even Jude was mesmerized.
I don’t often get one-on-one time with just Cordelia, so I took her to our town’s Christmas parade this week. We had a really fun time!
We decorated our Christmas tree together as a family! The girls had a blast helping put the ornaments on it.
And now for a montage of Cordelia/Vera messes!
Vera painted her and Cordelia’s feet with red nail polish (the day I had mastitis),
Cordelia climbed into the tub fully clothed (after she’d already had her bath),
Vera helped get more Cheerios for Cordelia,
Vera styled Cordelia’s hair with Desitin,
and Vera colored Cordelia’s face and the wall in the nursery with a dry-erase marker.
Whew! These sweet girls keep me on my TOES, that’s for sure!!
I have much more to post soon!
