A trip to the Greens and New Year's Eve

A few days after Christmas we headed to Kentucky to visit the Greens.  I can't say that Whitney did amazing on the 6hr drive, but she did pretty well and we were all excited to be out of the car! 

They can pick up where they left off so quickly!!!!!!!  As can the parents! :)

Baby Allie holding Baby Whitney!

Luke and his girls!!! :)

Attempt at a group photo!

The road trip home was smooth sailing until we hit St. Louis...our area had terrible flooding and St. Louis was even worse.  Part of the highway was closed and people were detoured through side roads and it didn't help that we got there at rush hour, ugh!!!!  It added two more hours to our trip, but we made it home safely!  Kudos to Leevi for driving in stop and go traffic with an unhappy baby!!!

We celebrated New Years Eve with Riley and her parents.  The guys watched the Michigan State bowl game across the street while Jennifer and I hung out with the kiddos until the game was over. 

Luke asked to go to bed around 8:30 (woohoo!!!!) and the girls started fizzling around 11:30, but made it to midnight to go outside and bang pots and pans!  Here's to prosperous 2016 filled with happy kids, blessed parents, AND another move, sigh!!!  (I secretly LOVE a new adventure though!  I'm going to have a super hard time once we settle into our forever home!)

2 months old!!!

Whitney at 2 months old continued to wow us with her laid back personality!  We kept waiting those first few weeks for the ball to drop or for the newborn sleepiness to wear off, but she stayed a great sleeper.  At two months old she would go for 6-7 hour stretches at night and was on a great eat, play, sleep schedule.  She would still cat nap during the day, but I'll take it if she'll give me that many solid hours at night! She looked great at her well baby check up and is in the 65th percentile for both height and weight at 23 inches and 11lbs 12oz.

Sweet baby changing and growing waaayyyy too fast!!!!!

Christmas!!!

We had a wonderful Christmas this year...Waynesville, Mo 2015 

 

Opening their Christmas Eve present  

Hailey reading Twas the Night Before Christmas

Spreading reindeer food after the Christmas Eve church service

Happy girl on Christmas Eve

Ready for bed!

Leevi bought Luke a real toolbag with real tools...you have no idea how excited he was and how often he uses the tools or grabs his tools to help with a repair/project!

Hailey got a BB gun!

Leila eating her Christmas bone right in the middle of the chaos!

Whitney slept thru most of Christmas morning!

Luke got his first bike from my parents (we are keeping it in the basement for now for him to ride since it's impossible to ride in our neighborhood or even our driveway!)

Both girls got Kindle Fires

They each got a Lego set

Roller blades from my parents...these are also in the basement, but we've gone once to the skating rink already

This was the first year in as long as I can remember that we haven't hosted Christmas dinner.  We wanted something low key since Leevi was leaving in about a week, so we opted for just a family day and had fun helping the kids play with/build their toys verses rushing to clean up the Christmas aftermath before guests arrived like in years past.  And we went to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens in the theatre that afternoon.  Everyone LOVED it and both Whitney and Luke did great and Leevi and I were able to watch the whole movie. 

Leevi bought us a sewing machine for Christmas and is teaching the girls how to sew!!!  That man can do anything!!!  He'll have to teach me too!!!

Hailey and Leevi made a swaddle for Whitney!

A super cool fort builder from Uncle Isaiah and Aunt Megan! 

And Mommy's new present!!!!!  Eek!!!!!!!!  Leevi thinks we've outgrown the minivan and bought me this!!!!!  Sigh, I was perfectly fine with the minivan and didn't have one since complaint (other than it was a "minivan")  I would have driven it forever but I'm not complaining!  This is a 2015 'used' Suburban with 20,000 miles

My favorite Christmas décor!!

Our card this year!