Nutcracker and Christmas Eve

What do you know, I've gotten behind again. We've spent lots of time hanging out at home and with family.

Neely has really perfected her "cheese" pose.
Grammy took me and Veronica and our older girls to see the Nutcracker a couple of days before Christmas. It was lots of fun, and I hope it'll become a tradition. The girls dressed up and looked really cute. Also, I got hit in the face with a peppermint at one point. Ha.

Unfortunately the only time I thought to take a picture was when we stopped in an arcade to kill a little time.
Grammy sent me this one though.
On Christmas eve we did the usual get together for my dad's birthday, with ping pong and cake, and opening a few presents.
Liam's trying to escape me up there.
It's hard to get used to the kids being so big that they go off and play at all the family functions, instead of staying right with us the whole time like they used to. But they have fun, even if it DOES feel like I don't see much of them.

Mollie got matching outfits for Neeliam to wear again this year, but we got no pictures of them together.
They're a bit more active than last year.
I can't believe how fast they change.

Neely didn't wear the hat that came with it too much, except when she made up a game with it.


Then she took a nice long nap,
so she could manage to stay up until 12:30 am, like a wild woman.