Merry Christmas | 2018

it's christmas eve!
the kids (mostly harper, due to her age of actually understanding anticipation) ;) are getting anxious and excited awaiting for santa to come tonight! i think tanner might actually be connecting the dots and i am so excited to see the christmas magic through their eyes tomorrow morning. tanner asked santa for a walking puppy with a leash. and harper a walking unicorn with a leash.
(thinking they influenced each other with their wishes!) :)

we are feeling God's blessings this year and thankful to have our new baby tatum this christmas.
how sweet it is, a baby at christmas!

later this afternoon we'll be heading to christmas eve church service and follow that up with having family over to our house for some christmas eve fun and food!

Merry Christmas, from our family to yours!

christmas cards of years past:

2017 card

2016 card

2015 card

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 3:16

Xoxo

-Brittney

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Suncadia | 2018

it's year four that we've taken our getaway to suncadia right before christmas. we look forward to this every year. to escape the craze and busyness that the days leading up to the holiday bring, and just stop and enjoy eachother. it's so special to me and always make the best memories.

we've always stayed in the same exact condo. it gets me so sentimental that year after year it's been the same place. until this year. with our growing family of now five, we decided a house would fit us all better. it's so fun to think we started doing this when we were just a family of three!

and here we are, keeping this tradition going.

i dream about all the childhood memories our kiddos are making and will one day look back on.

these littles in their snow pants and matching hats!! 

#hearteyes

7 am

cookie + coffee for breakfast

 8am

9am

packing, packing, packing.

loading, loading, loading.

we need a bigger car.

10 am

 11am

all that medicine ball goodness for the roadtrip

 12pm

picking the perfect carrot for frosty's nose

 1pm
mad dash to the car to fill that babe's tum

 2pm

3pm

4pm

5pm

6pm

7pm
no nap for the day and he passed right out on dad for the first time in a LONG time.

8pm

9pm

sleepy babe on that cozy bed.

10pm

and into bed in the 11 o'clock hour.

successful first day!
top of the list for day two is to hit the bakery for fresh cinnamon rolls and then to build a snowman.

Xoxo

-Brittney

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Tatum Ross || newborn pictures

later this week our sweet tatum will be two whole months!

it's seriously flown by, but one thing i don't have a single regret about is i have truly slowed down and cherished this time that tends to go by in a blink.

a third baby will do that to ya. 

life seems to just get busier, but with each baby that has come, i realized how quick it really does go and i have zero regrets of all the time spent holding and cuddling him.

HE IS THE SWEETEST.

looking back through these, my heart swells with love + gratitude.

tatum was a whole thirteen days old in these.

SO MUCH LOVE.

he was so new to us and yet his two older siblings welcomed him and loved on him as though they've known him all along.

he's the sweetest thing i know. 

this last picture right here freezes time for me. like he's looking right into my eyes. the time and that moment stands so still, with everything else around us in the world spinning so quick.

we love you tatum! what a blessing you are to our family. God gifted us the best gift this year and here we go headed into our first christmas season with you. you make it so extra beautiful and magical.

Xoxo

-Brittney

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