These Little Moments...

Our family enjoyed a very low-key, relaxed holiday weekend. We spent Thanksgiving morning in pajamas, watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, then joined my sister's family at my mom's house for an amazing meal. That evening, we started bringing out the Christmas decorations, which was exciting to both Ethan and Gracie! Our tree looks kind of pitiful this year. The ornaments from around the bottom keep disappearing... Thanksgiving Morning.  (Of course my two were the ones not cooperating, but I still love this picture!) Since Sean was also off on Friday, we took the kids over to Sean's brother's house for a post-Thanksgiving breakfast. As much as we've enjoyed traveling to visit family in the past, it was nice to stay close to home this year. We're lucky to have family members who live within 10 minutes of us, so we still get that "togetherness" without the stressful car-rides or out-of-town trips. Although my actual birthday wa...

I'm always amazed when I look back at last year's pictures, then compare them to this year's. Children grow so, so quickly! Halloween 2011 Ethan wasn't even crawling a year ago, and now, he is everywhere ! Dressing the kids up was a lot of fun this year. Instead of walking through our neighborhood, or my mom's, as we've done in the past, we joined our niece and nephew, Madison and Drew, in downtown Kernersville for some Trick or Treating fun. It was chilly, but Ethan stayed pretty warm in his raccoon costume. Our pumpkin was knocked over, rolled around, kicked, and beaten. We didn't even bother carving it; this "gu-kin" (as Ethan calls it) was entertaining enough as is. Gracie chose to be Rapunzel, one of her favorite princesses. She loved having such long hair! She wears her dress-up Rapunzel dress almost every day, so getting this new one was pretty exciting for her. Anderson and I tried so hard to get a p...